Sunday Forecast

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7:33AM

DAYS 1-5 (JUNE 26-30)…
No shift in overall thinking of how things take place during the final 5 days of June. High pressure dominates with a warming trend and slight increase in humidity through Monday. A slow-moving cold front moves through and gradually weakens Tuesday and Wednesday with a risk of showers and thunderstorms, though the risk of widespread beneficial rain from this is quite low. High pressure pushes in Thursday with a return to fair weather.
TODAY: Mostly sunny. Highs from the upper 70s coastal areas to middle and upper 80s interior locations. Wind S to SW 5-15 MPH.
TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows from the upper 50s to middle 60s. Wind light SW.
MONDAY: Mostly sunny. More humid. Lows in the 60s. Highs from the middle 80s to lower 90s, cooler southern coastal areas.
TUESDAY: Partly sunny. Humid. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the 60s. Highs in the 80s, but a few lower 90s possible interior areas and a upper 70s Cape Cod.
WEDNESDAY: Variably cloudy. Humid. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the 60s. Highs in the 80s except cooler South Coast.
THURSDAY: Partly cloudy. Lows from the upper 50s to middle 60s. Highs from the upper 70s to middle 80s.

DAYS 6-10 (JULY 1-5)…
High pressure dominates with fair and warm weather July 1. A frontal boundary will cross the region slowly during July 2-3 with a risk of a few showers and thunderstorms and some humidity. High pressure will bring fair and slighty cooler weather for July 4 then warming up July 5.

DAYS 11-15 (JULY 6-10)…
Next frontal system most likely around the middle of the period with a few showers/thunderstorms, otherwise mostly dry weather. Temperatures near to above normal.

58 thoughts on “Sunday Forecast”

  2. Thanks TK.
    Those thunderstorms on Tuesday don’t look at all impressive. SPC has us in general risk for Tuesday.

  3. Hopefully any showers/thunderstorms will be very few and far between. The 4th itself looks good though. Thanks TK!

    1. What I meant above is for next weekend. I don’t have a problem with whatever happens on Tuesday-Wednesday.

  5. Good morning. Yawn. Late night. Didn’t get home until after 1AM and then we
    watched Outlander which started at an odd time of 1:18 AM on one of the Starz channels as we were not home to watch it at it’s regular airing time of 9PM.

    I am not holding my breath for rain Tues/Wed, but I am hopeful. We shall see.

    I am dead tired but couldn’t sleep any more. Oh well.

    Will get something to eat in a few minutes. Perhaps that will wake me up?

    1. Just took a quick look at the severe parameters for Tues/Wed. Frankly they are so pathetic, it is laughable. The NAM is the most robust and that isn’t all that much.

      1. Not the right pattern. Isolated strong storms will be the most we can manage. Anything else will be weaker storms or less.

        1. Of course not. Hardly ever is. 😀 Let’s just get some rain out of it as we desperately need it.

  6. Also, looking around at observations, the winds are generally from the SouthWest, however, they are quite light, so I fully expect that sea breeze again along coastal
    areas. On Fri it limited high here to 77 and yesterday it only reached 76 here.
    Today I expect a bit of a lighter sea breeze, so Low 80s here seems reasonable, but I think still enough of an influence to keep 90s away. Inland a bit farther could be a different story.

    Now for once as we approach July, I actually WANT the sea breeze tomorrow. Will
    I get it? Ah that is the question. Not likely I am afraid. 😀

    1. Wind just went South East at Logan. There you go.

      Station 44013 (LLNR 420) – BOSTON 16 NM East of Boston, MA Image indicating link to RSS feed of recent meteorological observations for station 44013
      Boston Approach Lighted Buoy BF NOAA 44013

      Conditions at 44013 as of
      (7:50 am EDT)
      1150 GMT on 06/26/2016:

      Water Temperature (WTMP): 62.8 °F

      Some of that warming over the past few days maintained itself overnight.
      Water should make 65 this afternoon, perhaps a tad higher with
      those light sea breezes.

  7. A non weather Question for golfers. I would love for grandson Evan to have Macs clubs. But Evan is a leftie. Can right handed clubs be repurposed for left handed golfers.

    Evan is just three but seems to have his papas natural swing. We would wait until he is older but would like to save them for him if this is possible. Thank you and back to weather.

    1. Regrettably, I would have to say no. Take a close look at a “left-Handed”
      club. You will notice the action part of the club is facing towards your right.
      Imagine how you might make that face towards your left which is what would
      be needed to re-purpose for “Right-handed”. Can’t be done I’m afraid.

      I will say this. You “could” place a Right hand club face on the shaft of each
      club. That would still provide the Look of Mac’s clubs, but just with a new
      right-handed club face on each shaft. Perhaps this is what you meant
      in the first place. I took it literally as per usual.

      I have no idea of the cost involved to do this.

      Hope it all works out for you.

      1. Thank you JPD. Those were my fears. And I did think of switching g heads. At least part would be Macs. Appreciate your input

        1. If the cost is doable, I think it would be great to do, so part of the clubs are Mac’s as you said. It would be a great mix of what was his and the new skill and style the grandson would add. A bond in a way between the 2 of them. With the heads that were part of the original clubs, perhaps something could be made of them to memorialize Mac and his love for the game…? Just an idea.

    2. Vicki –You have touched on a question close to my heart. So here is more info than you need:
      Hold on to the putter. Righty golfers sometimes choose to putt lefty- and some cross handed! God knows why. But— read on below.
      1) they can’t be repurposed; the club head is simply inverted. It would be impossible; worse trying to make a lefty baseball glove a righty one.
      However, a club maker can “pull the shafts” and perhaps use them with a lefty club head. Shafts are a whole ‘nother thing and a good clubmaker might advise for or against it. But then you would need to wait until the child is tall enough to use the full length shaft. I would not cut the shafts down for a child. Just a waste of money and time and not advisable. But if a youmg man came to love golf and had an extra set with his grandfather’s shafts that could be a cool thing.
      2) technology changes in golf clubs so that the clubs can become out of date for serious golfers. That said, if a lefty grandchild comes along, there is a cult-like group of golfers who like to play with “vintage clubs”, so they will not be without possible use. I happen to prefer my hand-me-down irons that were made in 1953. But today the oldest clubs you see on the course are from the 90s. The woods change the most and most today are less than five or at most ten years old.

      The game of golf was once considered a “right handed game” and there were few lefty clubs and fewer lefty golfers. I am a lefty who has played the game righty, since I was good enough to swing righty and righty clubs were the only ones around the house. However, the equipment is now more available for lefties and we see lefty golfers much more frequently now. As much as I love the game, I wish I had played it left-handed, as the mechanics of the swing are very difficult and would have been more natural for me left handed, had I started out my natural way.
      Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson are your star lefties these days. People say Mickelson is a righty playing lefty, but I doubt he is a righty “swinger”. I suspect he does many things righty but swings naturally lefty. People say Ben Hogan was a lefty playing righty but that, it appears, is not true, either.

  9. Ok so the weather beat me a little bit. The pattern is only HALF WAY there. We can’t shake the tendency to drop some troughs into the East and it has to do with how things are configured upstream over the Atlantic. Eventually this will change but is it ever taking its sweet time…

    ON THE BRIGHT SIDE (bad weather pun), no we have not had too many big t-storms for you storm lovers or beneficial rain to help with the growing drought, but the temps have generally been near to slightly above normal for June along with very low humidity virtually daily, which has been fabulous for many outdoor activities. So, it’s not all bad. I know some love the classic summer heat and humidity, myself included, but I’m enjoying the heck out of what we do have now. Still very confident we get into classic summer weather in the weeks ahead, and believe me we have a long way to go in summer. It just started.

      1. Not even I am complaining and that’s saying something.
        My wife is absolutely LOVING this weather.

        I have NOT had to install the ACs yet and I “think” I won’t
        have to this week either. We shall see tomorrow and Tuesday.

        Almost 81 here, so my low 80s is looking good.

  11. Its been a great month of June. Humidity has been in check. The only real humidity that we have was part of the Memorial Day weekend.

  12. For anyone using tropicaltidbits.com to get model info etc., they experienced a disc failure in the last hour which will take several hours to recover from. This impacts the availability of data for many models.

    Best to go to your backup source for the time being.

  13. TK – Just curious…has Barry ever run the Boston Marathon? He still looks in great shape. 🙂

    1. I do not believe he has run that, but he can run long distances quite easily. You’ll sometimes spot him running near the river not far from the WBZ studio. He also bikes significant distances at times. He’s in great shape.

      Eric Fisher and Ch 7’s Bri Eggers have both run the Boston Marathon.

  14. Nice contrast today from 70s at the beaches to approaching 90 in the Merrimack and Nashoba Valley areas. Continued dry though with dew points easing into the 50s. Tomorrow, we’ll feel a bit more humidity, though not anything near oppressive.

  15. For what it’s worth, the 12z Operational GFS has 0.50 inch or less precipitation for all of southeastern MA from Metro Boston to Cape Cod for the entire 384 forecast period.

  17. Still like slower timing on the midweek front (Wednesday), and a split situation on the weekend, that is, main cold front comes through early in the weekend and a secondary trough hangs back for later. Neither one will likely produce all that much.

  18. Thank you also to TK and MassBay for the great ideas for Macs clubs. TK I absolutely love the idea of using the heads to make something in his memory. MassBay, son Scott has the woods and putter. The putter has been a Macs since way back when he played in Rome. I think you are correct about waiting. We will do that. Mac made us promise not to touch our grandsons swing and to let it develop on its own. It truly is natural. Mac and our son both have it. Although he has several leftie clubs, I saw grandson hit with a youth right handed club yesterday and his swing is nearly as good right handed so who knows. He will literally hit by the hour all on his own.

    Appreciate yiur taking the time away from weather to give such great advise. Thank you.

        1. I will. And it is an honest sport. Perhaps the only one left

          I meant to tell you also that my very favorite part of the music video you linked the other day was the background explanation when he was explaining the subject had lost his memory and said perhaps he is with the fairies. What a wonderful visual that was for me with my dad and my mother in law both having a form of dementia.

          1. And hmmmm Mac …O’Grady

            We all know I never look for hidden meanings in anything 🙂

  19. And now to weather. My heavens what a glorious day. 89.1 with 60 DP and lovely SW breeze in low teens.

    1. I got some pretty stern criticism from some fellow met’s for daring to go upper 80s to lower 90s today and tomorrow in areas away from the shore (especially valleys). The reasoning was dry ground heating up more than they would have otherwise. Models don’t see this.

      3. I don’t believe any of that criticism came from me. When I was on shift Friday night, I had mid-to-upper 80s for most of this region away from the coast for Sunday, and mentioned to the guy that replaced me at 3am that I wouldn’t be surprised if he had to bump the temps up a few degrees.

  20. Answer to yesterday’s AccuWeather Trivia Quiz.

    The latest sunset in Boston this year occurs on …

    A. June 12th
    B. June 21st
    C. June 26th
    D. July 4th

    The answer is C.

  21. Today’s Accuweather Trivia Quizzes.

    1. On average , Boston’s highest temperature of the year occurs on…
    A. July 4th
    B. July 12th
    C. July 22nd
    D. August 4th

    2. [Poorly Worded Answers] Which one is false? Ultraviolet radiation is …

    A. Comprised of 2 types
    B. Partially blocked by ozone
    C. Highest at 1-2 PM
    D. Greater in mountains than valleys

    Answers later today.

  24. JPD: Last week, you said that you are on no-sugar diet. May I ask you what you eat? What you don’t eat/drink? What do you eat for snacks? I want to start something similar this week.

  27. Getting nervous for the big weekend I’m hearing mixed reviews . Of course watch I said it way back it’s been dry on weekends now we need it dry more than ever —– this is one of my favorite times of year going back to being a kid , great memories . Of the

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