57 thoughts on “The Week Ahead”

1. Thanks TK ! Excellent as always !

2. Just a coincidence you posted this 1 minute before I posted my blog post? 🙂
   Otherwise a decent looking week.

   1. It was a coincidence, Scott. Great minds think alike… 😉

3. Thanks TK How scattered are you thinking for Saturday. We usually can get Into house anywhere from 11-2. Im hoping to at least unpack cars before any rain.

   1. I wish I could be more specific. There are too many things that can play into the impact that system has here. A little more progression than currently indicated and we just have morning showers and the rest of the day is dry. If the jet ends up a bit more amplified we’d have a set-up similar to this weekend, waves of scattered shower/storms at any time.

      1. Thank you TK. It’s still far out

4. Vicki the marshfield fair starts friday. The kids would like it. Big fair.

   1. My oldest and family love to go. Thanks John. My youngests son gets overwhelmed by a lot of commotion. I have to keep it in mind when driving too 🙂

5. Thanks TK.

6. Great rendition of Lennons Imagine for closing ceremonies. If only…….

7. Hope to see my first shooting star tonight!

8. who has been watching the english dance party closing ceramony. My parents just relizeing that some of the band that she though were americans are english

   1. I’ve been watching. A very good show.

9. 9 more days until UML marching Band hopefully i do not need this irritating brace. I went to the beach today and that cool ocean water and the sand was really nice. I actaully was able to walk on my ankle today on the beach 😀 sadly when i went home and was on solid ground it started to hurt. So i have no clue what i am going to do if it does not feel better by band camp 🙁

10. Sunrise is at 5:55am and sunset is at 7:45pm 🙂

11. Thanks TK!

    1. Are you home North?

12. Mostly clear sky and a decent show from the Perseids late Sunday night. At one point I saw 2 to 3 meteors per minute.

    1. I miss the days we were at the beach during the Perseids. Sadly, I fell asleep. I do know they go on for a week-ish but of course nowhere near the current intensity.

13. Enjoying the next two days before an unsettled Wednesday. With the humidity back in places showers and storms with the big threat being heavy rainfall. Severe weather threat seems low at this time so only going with a level 1 thunderstorm day.

14. There is an article on the AccuWeather site that says that hotter summers are the new normal in the northern hemisphere…UGH! 🙁

    I just hope that warmer, less snowy winters do not become the “new normal” as well.

    1. I guess if you believe it’s global warming it will be the new normal (not a phrase I’m fond of:) ) but otherwise it’s cyclical. Tough to decide but I’m afraid by the time we finish debating the issue it will be too late.

15. ahhhhhhhhh – can you smell summer??? I finally have my windows wide open and it smells great!!!!

16. Here is a long shot hope for winter. I was reading comments on The Farmers’ Almanac blog and someone has seen it and it shows that the Northeast will have a cold and snowy winter with two big storms one between the 12-15th of February and the 20th-23rd of March. The almanac will be released at the end of August and if it is true about a cold and snowy winter I hope its the 1 in 100 chance they got it right.

17. Don’t like to complain, but I am going to … I apologize … There are far more important things in life. I know … Weather forecasters said as recently as Saturday evening and yesterday morning that today would be free of humidity. Boy, was I in for a shock this morning. It’s still very humid and very warm. Maybe it’s just me being a little sick of summer sunshine (for any of you that suffer from migraines – I am a sufferer today – this kind of sunshine is relentless and brutal) at this point, but I sweat like crazy on my way to work. When will the triple threat of HHH depart. By now, we usually have had a brief August chill or at least at least a real cold front pass through that reminds us that summer is waning. Not this year. With the exception of some relief due to sea breezes (I am very thankful for that this year), cold fronts have not really put a dent into temperatures or humidity in quite some time.

    1. Much like cold fronts during this past winter didnt really deliver that much colder air…

    2. Joshua the humidity was really getting to me also. I think the drier air is moving in. As I posted above, I now have windows open.

    3. I hear u though Joshua, its currently 83 in walpole with a dew point of 63. Still considered humid, although not the oppressive low to mid 70’s DP’s of the weekend. With the full sunshine today and warmer temps than over the weekend, it may actually feel hotter than the weekend despite the lower DP’s

       1. I’m laughing at myself – it’s proof that everything is relative. I saw your post so checked our temp and DP and it’s exactly the same as yours AceMaster but to me it felt so much better 🙂 Sorry to give you false hope Joshua – I sure do understand what you are saying!

18. I hate when we use the term cold front in the summer fronts. The air behind it is not cold but drops the humidity to a more tolerable level and sometimes if were lucky we get a real dry airmass with dew points in the 40s.
    The overnight low is a good indicator of what the day is going to be like humidity wise. The lower the overnight low the drier the air. When there in the mid 60s and up its going to be on the uncomfortable side.

    1. I see overnight lows in the mid 60’s aaaallll week

    2. they should be called humidity fronts

19. To me when it comes to dew points
    50s- comfortable
    low 60s- you start to feel the humidity
    mid 60s- humid
    upper 60s very humid
    70 and above- oppressive

    1. Thanks for the clarification, JJ.

       You’re right. I should not have used the term “cold front.” Still, what I’m referring to is air coming down from Canada, with Highs moving from southern Ontario through northern NE or southern Quebec, and not coming right at us (west to east) or dipping to our south (that’s when it really gets humid and hot). I believe this week’s High is moving from west to east and will wind up off the southern NE coastline. Not good for those of us who want true relief.

20. Joshua – I know what you mean. I think at one time they used to call strong cold fronts in the summer polar fronts or a cold front bringing in “summer polar air” -that is, if the temp. and humidity went down considerably. You are right. I haven’t seen anything like that so far this summer. We should start to get something like that soon. And last winter’s cold fronts weren’t that cold, either.

    JJ – I agree with you re: “cold fronts” during the summer. Can’t they call them “cool fronts”?

    1. Some TV met’s would refer to them as “cool fronts” … But they would also use that term in the winter.

       The problem is, there is so much play in the actual weather and we try to stick this rigid definitions on it.

       Maybe we should just scrap “warm” and “cold” fronts and just use the term “baroclinic zones”. One of my professors was for this idea and even though I thought he was crazy at the time, thinking about it again, maybe he wasn’t.

       1. Thanks, TK. Sounds like a good and realistic way of putting it – “baroclinic zones” – I am having a little trouble pronouncing it – I tried saying it fast a few times fast and it didn’t come out right! 🙂
          But, hey, maybe you could start a new trend! 🙂

21. Hi Rainshine… I wish they would just say a front is coming through and leave it at that. Speaking of front we got one coming through Wednesday and with the humidity in place could be dealing with the Potential for some heavy rainfall. The severe threat looks low and the storm prediction center has us in the 5% zone for Wednesday. I am thinking level 1 non severe activity but would not rule out a few strong storms.

    1. Thanks, JJ. I know – it would make it easier to say a front is coming through.

22. I have my doubts about in-advance advertised cool/dry air for Monday of next week. Thinking it may be more like today, perhaps just not quite as warm as today is.

    1. Well I will take today – although I’m in the mood for a sweatshirt kind of day just as a taste of what’s to come in fall 🙂

23. For myself the toughest weather to take here in New England is the seeming weeks of about 39° and drizzle that we often seem to have in October – November and then again in March thru June ( though maybe not so cold). Leaving for work when it’s dark and then leaving work when it’s dark it can seem as if there’s no daylight for months at a time. Makes me appreciate the summer weather that much more no matter how hot it is.

    1. My husband leaves in the dark and returns in the dark too and truly enjoys the long summer days for that reason as well.

       1. my dad love it too. but we make due once it is winter. 😉 ski season. 🙂

24. looking at some models and they are pointing in a cooler week after next weekend in the 70s. I have mix feelings about it. one yeah that i do not need to march in uncomfy temps but another says no thats not good it means fall is around the corner.

    1. Fall cannot come soon enough for me. 🙂

25. How about when only the dew points drop but the temps remain warm, instead of the word “front”, maybe the word “trough” be more appropriate?

    TK, wouldn’t the word “trough” be more accurate anyway in these cases? I usually associate fronts as “strong” and troughs as “weak” in nature.

    1. I think you are on to something. I think people pretty much want to know if the front will be warmer or cooler or humid or less humid after. Most people don’t use DP,but go with humidity.

       1. We had a professor at Lyndon State who harped on this point. It drove him nuts when a front was labeled as a cold front and the next day’s temp was as warm, if not warmer. I’d think our region is much more susceptible to this occurence. Pre “cold front”, a lot of times, the surface flow has some sort of ocean component, and then the “cold front” turns the winds west or northwest, which is off of the continent.

26. Hi Tom. My kids have a question (me too). How are the mosquitoes in your area. We like to sit out late but no one is thrilled with the increase in EEE. We do spray of course. Thanks 🙂

    1. Hi Vicki.

       I dont think they have been too bad. Of course, at dusk, there are some around, but not the usual swarm. Funny, I havent seen many greenheads either (the flies from the marshes that are ferocious). What I find to be plentiful and very itchy are those no see-ums, the small, tiny little fleas that you know are biting, but that look so tiny on the skin……boy, to see what is going on about 20 to 25 miles southwest of the coastline in that area where all of the mosquitos are testing for EEE. They sprayed a second time last night.

       1. Or maybe its tonight they are spraying.

       2. Tom i live right on marshland with a flowing river but have been treating the area with torches, 2 bug zappers and a mosquito magnet. we have seen a dramatic decrease , the greenheads and those flees are not out either. the thing that i have been finding plentiful are the good bugs. Dragon flies and they are fat large ones this year. along with increasing bat population, we have also seen an increase of monarchs and other butterflies. Also the turtle eggs hatch durring an evening and have been finding them in my pool constantly. also the frogs and salamanders.

          1. Hi Matt.

             We had some success in past summer’s with a mosquito magnet, but it recently broke and I havent had a chance to repair/replace it. On the good bug list has to be fire flies, which we have seen tons of this summer.

       3. Thanks tom. Those green heads are nasty but nothing is as bad as the noseums. I forget what the manufacturer is but whoever makes skin so soft works for them. It’s just greasy.

          1. Will hope for some pleasantly breezy nights to keep the air stirred up over the coming weeks.

             1. Thank you Tom 😀

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