Friday Forecast

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7:15AM

DAYS 1-5 (OCTOBER 21-25)…
And unsettled transition from relatively warm and quite humid air today to much cooler and drier air by the end of the weekend, as described in the previous entry, so no significant changes to this one. Quite foggy in many areas to start today, waves of showers increasing as the day goes on, into tonight. Additional showers possible Saturday from the passing upper level low pressure area. By Sunday it’s fully into the chilly, drier pattern into early next week.
TODAY: A little early sun parts of South Shore to Cape cod otherwise cloudy. Areas of fog especially this morning. Episodes of rain showers becoming more frequent afternoon. Heavy downpours possible. Humid. Highs 62-70. Wind SE to S 10-20 MPH.
TONIGHT: Cloudy with episodes of rain, possibly heavy in some areas. Slight risk of thunderstorms. Lows 55-62. Wind S 10-20 MPH becoming variable then NE.
SATURDAY: Variably cloudy. Scattered to isolated rain showers. Highs 57-64 early then cooling through the 50s. Wind NW increasing to 15-25 MPH with higher gusts.
SUNDAY: Partly sunny. Windy. Lows 35-43. Highs 54-61.
MONDAY: Partly cloudy. Lows 38-45. Highs 52-58.
TUESDAY: Mostly sunny. Lows 33-41. Highs 48-55.

DAYS 6-10 (OCTOBER 26-30)…
A couple episodes of rain or rain showers from weaker passing systems and variable temperatures during this period.

DAYS 11-15 (OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 4)…
Some unsettled weather possible early in the period then turning drier. Temperatures near to below normal.

134 thoughts on “Friday Forecast”

  5. Good morning and thank you TK.

    Looks like I picked up 0.05 inch over night. I know some areas received much more
    in those showers late last evening.

    1. Here too. Nearing 70F and for October 21st, feeling nearly oppressive. Definitely a front around, seeing those cooler upper 50s inland.

  11. My daughter just told me her oldest cried before school because she didn’t want to wear a jacket. She is the one I have said on here would wear shorts all year. Turns out the reason was if you wear a jacket to school and refuse to wear out to recess (much later in day), then you have to stand along the “wall” for five minutes and cannot play.

    I don’t understand how anyone does not know that as seasons change, temperatures can vary markedly between 8:00 am and noon.

    1. Stupidity?
      Apathy?
      calloussness?
      heartlesss?
      unemotional?
      unsympathetic?
      raloof?
      blasé?
      cold?
      detached?
      disintered?
      dispassionate
      impervious
      listless
      nonchalant
      passionless
      unaroused
      unconcerned
      uninvolved
      unmoved

      Take your pick. One or ALL of the above or some “other” reason.

      Either way, makes no sense at all.

      1. Excellent choice of words. Very sad. Funny thing is that her teacher is excellent so this truly surprised me.

    2. That does seem overthinking things a bit.

      I understand the big picture idea, that it drives at keeping the kids warm, but this seems more appropriate for Dec to March.

      And look at today. Warm front coming through. Could be markedly warmer at lunch compared to morning.

      I’d be curious to know if this is a specific classroom rule of a whole school rule. The teacher may not have a choice.

        1. I’m going to guess its an overall general school rule, with a good intention, but in my opinion, requiring a bit of common sense flexibility in enforcing it.

          1. I’m thinking that may be the case. Trying to use common sense, the reasoning could be that if a parent sends a jacket, the intent is for the child to wear the jacket outside. That’s my common sense anyway…..I suspect you are right about common sense flexibility in the other direction.

    3. been a rule since I was in elementary, We brought out jackets wore it, then took them off when out actually playing we found ways to get out of that crazy stuff, I really pisted them off when I took off my jacket in november when we were out at recess but I still had it around my waist, so they could do nothing to me

      1. She is only seven. I am sure I would have worked around things when I got older 😉 Perhaps, I still do…..just perhaps. But I think this is a good learning experience for her to let her mom know when there is a problem and then draft a letter to the teacher with her mom.

  12. JPD, if I may ask a weather statement question. I just unpacked. It seems that the rain sensor, temperature sensor and anemometer are all one unit. I have always placed temperature sensors in a corner where there is no sun. I don’t know how to do this if the rain sensor is attached since it has to be more in the open. The temp sensor is under the unit so perhaps it does not matter if it is in the sun??? I’m not planning to use the wind direction vane as I don’t have a place to put it that is unobstructed.

    Thank you. I can also email you if that is easier for you?

    1. Vicki,

      The unit is designed to be in the open and exposed to the sun.
      It is specially manufactured and it comes with a built in operational fan
      to insure proper temperature readings.

      However, Please NOTE:

      If you have to install in the corner of an exposed deck (like I was forced to do),
      then the temperature reading might be a tad too high on sunny days.
      My 2nd floor deck where my unit is installed, soaking up the sun and
      really gets hot and radiants extra heat. The unit can’t quite keep up with it
      and I get readings 2-4 degrees higher than the actual temperature on really
      sunny days.

      If you can install on the top of a 5 foot post in the back yard, it will be perfectly fine.

      Hope this helps.

      1. Thank you, Dave.

        My plan had been to put on corner of back deck. I appreciate the input and will go ahead with that plan keeping your information in mind. I also have the second unit that I plan to give to granddaughter but I can compare them for a bit first.

  13. Where’s the beef?? Are we getting rain or not? It’s possible the stuff to the SE just grazes and the stuff to the west never moves east?

  14. Yeah surprised when I stepped out it was very warm (hot for me) and steamy. Blue skies and sun…unless the rain just comes tonight it doesn’t look like it will any time soon. Bring on the cold!

    2. Looks to me that line through NYC will not move to the east and those in SE NE will get into more showery/squally weather later on. Could be heavy, but hit or miss stuff.

  16. Thank you, TK.

    I may have to swim to Nantucket tomorrow as they’re now expecting gusts of up to 50mph which could cancel the ferry service. I think they’ll run the ferries (at least the slow one), but seas will be quite rough. Monday’s return looks a little better though the winds are from the west.

          2. I read water main broke and two were killed. Horrific doesn’t begin to describe. My heart aches for their family and friends.

  19. radar pretty active to the West of the Boston area. Nothing shaking around these
    parts, although it looks threatening out there now. 😀

    1. Yep, we pulled into Weston Nurseries to order from Snappy Dog and it started to rain. I figured that was pretty much a given. Showers on and off here – nothing that accumulates.

  20. Vicki, irrationally I have less fear of driving, trains, and boats than I do flying. Chances are I make it to Nantucket and back tomorrow and Monday. If I don’t – as I mentioned in yesterday’s post – at least I’ll be as close to the benchmark of 40/70 as I could ever imagine being.

  21. Terrible news from Boston’s South End where at least one worker has lost his life doing work in a trench that flooded. Really tragic.

  25. Are we pretty much relying on whatever is left of invest 99 for the rainfall in eastern sections tonight?

    1. Sharp cutoff. This tells me the heaviest stuff will be very localized. I could see some locales with over 1″ and some with less than 0.25″ over a short distance.

  29. Impressive band of rain over central MA and stretching down through eastern CT. Flood risk in that area for the next couple hours. Several models, global and short range, have hinted at such a band for days, but most had it more to the east, closer to Boston or offshore.

  32. I just saw some lighting and heard the thunder. I’ve had 0.96″ so far. Had the last fertilizer of the season put down Thursday so I didn’t have to water.

  36. Took me from 3:30 to 5:50 to get from Boston to Northbridge. Slow slog home. I got off the pike at 495 and went home through hopkinton and Upton. Lots of water on the roads.

    2. When son in law picked me up after my procedure at hosp, he went pike to 85 and then clear back roads from there home. Was a breeze and very pleasant. I have to learn it

  43. Awesome weather day today, on the ride home, I saw a rainbow over South Nashua, sunlight here in Chelmsford, and now, enjoying a fabulous thunderstorm, warm temps, relaxing rain. Very vivid lightning, and the lights flickered a few times! AWESOME!

  46. Power still on. Yours Scott?

    Son said parts of rt 2 and 290 under water and he heard 4.62 rain in Webster

    2. It is interesting to have all these ESE to SE winds at the surface while the storm motion aloft is S to N or SSW to NNE.

  48. More t and l here. Up to 2.83 rain. We were in a hole for a bit so won’t have as much as other areas I suspect

  50. Looks like a string of pearls on the lightening map from Sutton up to the NH border

    Still some decent thunder and lightening here.

    Blackstone I’m surprised as I was trailing you fairly significantly a bit ago I thought. More coming ?

  51. Reports of close to 4″ of rain in 3 hours in the Worcester area, including the report Tom mentioned of 3.70″ at the airport. We don’t see that too often.

  58. Almost an inch of rain in NR from heavy downpours tonight. Was at the North Reading HS football game and I do not think I have ever seen it rain harder in my life. Just as the game ended, lots of lightning and thunder. I am soaked through to the bones, but the team on the Cape Ann League championship, so all is good.

  59. Wonder if a 2nd plume of tropical moisture is starting to organize near the Vineyard for southeastern Mass ???

    1. .47 total. Not as much as you all to the northwest of me. What a total considering the dry times we have been through although too heavy in too short of a time.

  63. God evening. Sorry I missed all of the action, but we were out. What a night to be out!
    Coming home from Canton, it was raining buckets. Parts of the V.F.W. Parkway and West Roxbury Parkway were blocked by police due to flooding. In addition to that
    we saw 4 huge puddles that were just barely able to traverse. Saw about 4 abandoned cars.

    Total in ye ole rain gauge 2.36 inches for far. Well short of totals to the West, but at the same time a significant amount of rain in a short period of time.

    Wild night. I loved it! 😀 Of course the Mrs. was a wreck driving home.

      1. Or you were using your Swedish. But then you are right. Every day is a God day.

        And where is everyone? Tap tap. Is this microphone still on?

  64. Wild night as we got whacked from that tropical plume from the south. It was fun but what won’t be fun is that wind that we will experience during the second half of the weekend.

            1. Hi Vicki,

              I just have a couple of spots in my kitchen, but that appears to be it. Not a big deal really just needs some paint. Hope you make out ok. Haven’t seen rain like that in a long time!

              1. Good news for only a couple spots. Still a pain. I didn’t see evidence of any water here so would expect the house is tight with that kind of rain.

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