7:03PM
High pressure will remain over New England for the next couple days then slowly push offshore by midweek, allowing low pressure to approach slowly from the west. This setup gives fair weather through Wednesday, then unsettled weather Thursday and Friday. As we get to next weekend, the question to be answered is how fast will the low pressure area move out? So far, I’m somewhat optimistic, but with many days to go, I’ll look at it daily and fine-tune the forecast as needed.
The details for the Boston area for the next 7 days for now go this way…
TONIGHT: Clearing. Low ranging from the upper 40s over inland valleys to near 60 in Boston, 50s most locations. Wind NW under 10 mph.
MONDAY: Sunny. High 78 to 83. Wind variable up to 10 mph.
MONDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Low 60 to 65. Wind S up to 10 mph.
TUESDAY: Partly cloudy. High 75 to 80. Wind variable up to 10 mph.
TUESDAY NIGHT: Variably cloudy. Low 60 to 65 Wind S up to 10 mph.
WEDNESDAY: Partly sunny. High 80 to 85. Wind S 5 to 15 mph.
THURSDAY: AM rain / PM clouds & sun. Low 63. High 83.
FRIDAY: Showers & thunderstorms. Low 67. High 79.
SATURDAY: Partly cloudy. Isolated showers. Low 63. High 78.
SUNDAY: Mostly sunny. Low 63. High 82.
Thank you TK. My husband likes your Thurs forecast for his golf. As long as it clears in the pm he’s happy!! I agree with Hadi. Today was a 10. Of course I also think a major blizzard is a 10!
Well I have to say I can’t be overly confident in my timing for Thursday, but I had to put something. 😛
That’s ok TK – it gives him hope. So far the course has had to shut down about 60% of the time on Thursday.
If only the whole summer could be like today.
It’s another beautiful day – I love when I can just wander onto the deck first thing in the morning before the rest of the world comes alive and enjoy a cup of coffee!!!
I’m thinking between Wed-Fri most areas will receive 1-2 inches of rain, just my latest thinking.
That could happen in places that get some real heavy shower and activity along with some embedded thunder since the airmass will be on the humid side. I don’t see severe weather at this time with any storms that should develop so the thunderstorm index is only at 1.
Charlie could be on to something. The mets (including Todd) seem to be leading towards chilly all-day rains for Thursday. In fact, Pete Bouchard in his evening blog suggested that cool rainy periods could be around at times this particular summer. He stopped short of a repeat of 2009, but hinted that the days will be highly variable in nature. There will be really good days, bad days, so-so days….just like “life”.
As I have been saying from the beginning, I predict this summer 2011 will end up as plain ol’ “normal” and not particularly memorable one way or the other, not counting the devastating central & western MA tornadoes.
Hi Philip.
I caught Pete as well and he mentioned that he is getting emails questioning summer and the future weather. I was surprised, as I think Boston and most locales just recorded their fourth straight day of 80 F plus degree
highs. I was thinking this has been beautiful summer weather…..Todd broadcasted from Castle Island which won my wife’s approval, as she is originally from nearby Dorchester……..Evidentally, the one damp day is Thursday and then it transitions back to more mild to warm and not overly humid weather next weekend. Sounds good to me 🙂
During the summer months it is rare to have an all day rain but it can happen.
I will take a normal summer after the hot summer we had last year. I know Paul Postellek the new AccuWeather Long Range Forecaster was calling for normal amount of 90 degree days with less heat but more in the way of humidity this summer.
Jimmy, I will take a normal summer as well. I seem to remember back in the early 1970’s every summer there would be a couple days in which that an all-day rain would occur. At the time I attended day camp and there were two 4-week sessions (Session 1-July/Session 2-August) and each month there would be that “one” day that would be absolutely lousy with mostly indoor type activities. Fortunately, I don’t recall that any “overnights” were cancelled. 🙂
I haven’t been at the AccuWeather site in quite a while. It will be interesting to see how Paul’s predictions for the summer and winter will be compared to Joe Bastardi’s over the years. I have heard Paul occasionally on WBZ radio so I guess he is just as good as anybody. I will miss JB though…he doesn’t believe in global warming, which is what I really liked about him.
Philip Joe Bastardi is at weather and does blogs for them on occasion. I like Joe’s passion for weather and I agree what he says that weather is cycles cycles cycles as he says.
Forgot and left out bell after weather.
Gee what took you so long Charlie? 😉
I think there could be some prolific rainfall here between late Wednesday night and late Thursday night, not counting any heavy thunderstorms that occur in scattered locations Friday and isolated locations Saturday, where some areas will add to totals.
If I may editorialize for a moment, I am not a huge fan of Pete B’s presentation on Ch 7. Too many misleading statements. Example: When talking about a forecast of chilly rain for Thursday, without any reasoning he informed his viewers that “this may be the pattern of summer, a warm stretch then we sink it with showers, clouds, and cool temps”. Ok, well what does that say? The viewers are going to focus on the dismal part of that outlook and suddenly transform it into “it’s going to rain every weekend, cancel our vacation plans”. There’s a way to discuss the pattern you expect without being misleading. It’s not that difficult.
Working on a new blog now.