Block To Unlock

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8:52PM

Blocking patterns are common to Spring and we have been in one, just in the fair weather section, unlike many times during the Spring when southern New England is in the grey, chilly, damp section. The common theme has been dry weather, lots of sun, mild to warm air well inland but cooler to much cooler along the coast.

This block is beginning to break down, but it will take place over several days. Fair weather will hold on for much of the region into if not through Tuesday, with only some low cloudiness at times especially in southeastern MA including Cape Cod. As things begin to move in the atmosphere, an upper level low pressure that has been cranking its way around the middle of the country will move eastward then northeastward up across New England by the middle of the coming week, but it will be weakening as it does so. This will limit the amount of rain that occurs in southern New England, though it does look unsettled for the middle and end of next week.

Updated forecast for southeastern New England…

OVERNIGHT: Areas of low clouds may develop and cross southeastern MA otherwise mostly clear. Lows 35-40 inland 40-45 coast. Wind NE under 10 MPH.

SUNDAY: Areas of low clouds may continue across southeastern MA especially Cape Cod with sunshine elsewhere. Highs 50s coast, 60s inland. Wind E 5-15 MPH.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Some clouds far southeast otherwise clear. Lows around 40 inland to the upper 40s coastal areas. Wind SE under 10 MPH.

MONDAY: Sunny. Highs upper 50s coast to lower 70s well inland. Wind SE to S 5-15 MPH.

TUESDAY: Sunny start, more clouds late. Low 48. High 62 coast, 72 inland.

WEDNESDAY: Mostly cloudy. Chance of light rain & drizzle. Low 50. High 62.

THURSDAY: Partly sunny. Scattered showers. Low 52. High 60 coast, 67 inland.

FRIDAY: Partly sunny. Isolated showers. Low 53. High 62 coast, 70 inland.

SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy. Isolated showers. Low 54. High 65.

55 thoughts on “Block To Unlock”

  3. At 2:00AM I was scraping frost off my car on the hill on the western side of Woburn. Clear, calm, & cold out there!

  4. Answer to yesterday’s AccuWeather Trivia Quiz.

    How long could a single bolt of lightning power a 100 watt light bulb?

    A. 3 hours
    B. 3 days
    C. 3 months
    D. 3 years

    The answer is C, 3 months.

  5. Today’s AccuWeather Trivia Quiz.

    What is the best way to describe the shape of a raindrop?
    A. Tear-shaped
    B. Circular
    C. Hamburger bun
    D. Tiny bubbles

    I did learn that raindrops change their shape as they fall from the sky, which I guess is only logical. Answer later today.

    3. C, without a doubt.

      And Vicki, it wasn’t just a little bit of frost, it was thick frost! I wish I had taken a photo after I carved Topkatt88 into frost on my car roof. 😉

      1. Whoa….amazing. But at 2:00 am. Do you know that’s the middle of the night….or more technically wayyy to early in the morning to be awake 😉

    1. No surprise. It was absolutely ideal for radiational cooling (see my frost comments above).

  8. Bedford and Taunton were both below freezing this morning with lows of 30.

    Logan got down to 40 which is impressive.

    Martha’s Vineyard which is a known cold spot was 42 because the wind was around 10 to 15 MPH there, but yesterday morning with a much lighter wind they dropped to 35!

    So yes, it can still be quite chilly. We have a Canadian cold airmass potential in just over 1 week. In fact interior higher elevations of New England may see some very late mix/flakes if moisture hangs around on a departing low pressure area (timing suspect of course this far out) around May 12-13.

    After that, seeing some signs of Summer trying to poke its nose into the picture. 🙂

    1. Interior higher elevations in Wrentham or interior higher elevations like on the summit of mt wachusett? We got Potential

      1. More like Wachusett summits. Even I know how rare May snow is. I’ve seen snow ONCE in 45 years after May 10, and that was May 18 2002. I don’t expect to see anything anywhere close to Boston unless it miraculously sets up exactly like 2002’s event. Not betting on it.

  10. Up to 48 ott something from a frosty start. Its funny how even when the air is cold it still smells like spring. Must be the earth smell that it gets when its waking up in the spring opposed to when its going to sleep (freezing) in the fall

      1. Huh which? Temp or smells like spring? I couldn’t remember tenths for temp so used a saying from jethro on Beverly hill billies. Spring…..well even the cold 30 degree air has a smell that tells you its going to get a lot warmer. Hope that helps

          1. Well the earth wakes up in the spring and goes to sleep in the fall 😆 sounds silly but that’s how it seems to me

  12. I woke up at 6:30 and it was 41.7 degrees out, not sure any frost here, maybe at 4-5am but didn’t see it, watered the lawn, it starts at 4am and ends around 7am, 51.4 degrees here now, expecting high temps here in the 60’s

    1. The frost would probably have been just on a car top in the open. I don’t think the ground had any because it was probably too warm from the solar heat in the soil. When I was leaving west Woburn last night, the grass seemed just wet, while the car top had the frost.

      It’s easy to get frost on the grass when the air temp at about 5 feet above the ground is in the lower 40s in the autumn or very early Spring, but once you get to late April / May, much harder to do that.

  13. This Spring reminds me of one a number of years ago (I can’t remember just when) where there was an EAST wind virtually every day for 2 whole months. It was disgusting. The only thing better this time around, is the sunshine, but even so I
    despise that East wind in the Spring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      1. I don’t know how to convert knots to mph so will ask mac when he gets home. We sure have had wind although this far inland it seems to be calm today. Nice to see a link from you OS 😀

  15. Here is a re-post of the quiz that Longshot posted earlier this morning:

    Today’s AccuWeather Trivia Quiz.

    What is the best way to describe the shape of a raindrop?
    A. Tear-shaped
    B. Circular
    C. Hamburger bun
    D. Tiny bubbles

  16. Heading to JP old salty. My husband aunt who will be 96 on the 18th is at sherrill house for rehab. Tons of building just past atrium.

  18. Thanks, TK.

    Been very busy – lots going on. Beautiful weather – just a bit too chilly for this time of year, I think, anyway. ‘Though I wouldn’t want to see HHH just yet – wait a month or so. I do want to see rain, ‘though.

    Anybody know the last time we had a west wind? Maybe it’s been recent – just seems like we’ve had an easterly wind forever! 🙂

  19. my summer predictions
    JUN: mild and dry
    JUL: Extreme heat most of the month seeing 90+ with little precipitation besides for a few cold fronts moving though which in general will be thunderstormed starved.
    AUG: warm with a tropical air mass
    SEP: near normal precipitation and near normal temperatures
    drought conditions for first half of summer. Not as active of a hurricane season. there will be landfalls. just not as many named storms

  20. Answer to today’s AccuWeather Trivia Quiz.

    Today’s AccuWeather Trivia Quiz.

    What is the best way to describe the shape of a raindrop?
    A. Tear-shaped
    B. Circular
    C. Hamburger bun
    D. Tiny bubbles

    The correct answer is C, hamburger bun. I believe the following might be true: 1) raindrops change their shape as they fall; 2) raindrops fall at 20 mph but I am not sure whether this is at sea level or on top of a mountain; and 3) I think raindrops might, if big enough, split into two or more drops. I could be wrong about this. I am going from memory and not anything I read recently so I am ready to be corrected by those in “the know.”

  21. Wow….great golf tournament. 23 yr old who got to play only when someone else couldn’t, won. Not so nice weather in Charlotte however

    1. Now with that win Derek Ernst gets into next week’s Players Championship and next year’s Masters along with winning his first ever PGA tour event. I was rooting for Phil but its nice to see a new person who has never won before win.

      1. JJ. Mac said the very same thing. Tough not to be happy for Derek and upset for Phil at the same time

  22. It physically pains me to turn on the lights in my room at 7:00. Because it is not quite dark enough to need them, but too many shadows are being cast that are making it difficult to read this article for school. The love the way the light comes in the window, and my black cat is curled up on my bed. I love this time of day so much…almost as much as when it is twilight.

    1. I love low sun. Today I am playing a CD fitting for this time when the sun goes from about 15 degrees above the horizon down to just below it. INXS Listen Like Thieves is a great CD to fit this time period in the Spring.

      1. Hmmm I was listening to Tim Janis Along the Shore of Acadia and thought the same. Hi Emily. I know exactly what you mean.

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