Thursday Forecast

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7:36AM

DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 13-17)
Cooler/drier as expected through Friday. Warm front approaches later Saturday with cloudiness, maybe some wet weather at night, leading to a much warmer Easter Sunday. Marathon Monday looks less warm, but still quite mild, on the other side of a front that may bring a shower Sunday night before dry weather returns.
THURSDAY: Partly sunny. Highs 55-62. Wind NW 10-20 MPH.
THURSDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 33-40. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.
FRIDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 56-63. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.
SATURDAY: Sunny start, cloudy finish. Chance of rain at night. Lows 35-45. Highs 55-65.
SUNDAY: Partly cloudy. Chance of showers/thunderstorms at night. Lows 45-55. Highs 65-82, coolest South Coast.
MONDAY: Partly cloudy. Lows 45-55. Highs 60-72.

DAYS 6-10 (APRIL 18-22)
Fair, cooler April 18, then episodes of unsettled weather following.

DAYS 11-15 (APRIL 23-27)
Cooler and unsettled start then may moderate again later in the period.

66 thoughts on “Thursday Forecast”

  7. Well if it is Tom’s B-Day, then I shall join in.

    Happy Birthday Tom. May you enjoy a great day!

  8. Thank you TK for the update. Still celebrating a B’s win?

    After ZERO shots on net in the 2nd period, who would have thought that they
    would pull that one out.

    Tuukka Rask saved the bacon last night. IF he continues to play like that, the B’s will
    advance in these play offs for sure.

    1. No, just make sure to not use any weed and feed or crabgrass preventer fertilizers for 4-6 weeks afterwards. A lot of people will use crabgrass preventer way too early when the seeds aren’t anywhere near ready to germinate. Crabgrass won’t germinate until the soil temperature is consistently above 55 degrees. Depending on the amount of sun and proximity to pavement, this typically doesn’t occur until Mid May or later. The best weed prevention is a thick healthy lawn. I prefer to spot treat with a sprayer as it is more effective

      1. Thank you GFS. What type of spot sprayer do you use? My wife tried something like that but it killed the grass in those areas.

      2. Does anyone have problems with round spots left when the dog pees? Our lawn looks as if it has craters in it and we are having a lawn service this year and I hate spending the $$ when this happens. SIL started giving him some pills that are supposed to stop it but they don’t seem to be working very well.

        1. Yup! I’ve tried everything under the sun to prevent/treat it, from applications to the lawn to additives in her food and nothing works. This year, I’m giving into the fact our backyard lawn will never be nice

          1. Oh heavens, please don’t tell me that. I’m banning him to the hill….except that is where we find the most ticks.

          2. I use a one gallon hand sprayer for the spot weed treatment and use either ortho or bayer concentrate that won’t kill the lawn, only the weeds. I still try to only spray the weed, but it works much better than the general weed and feed fertilizers in my experience. The only weed prevention I’ll use with the fertilizer is the crabgrass preventer. For dog spots, there isn’t a ton you can do as its a PH issue and for whatever reason, female dogs have more of an impact than males typically. I try to throw down a ton of lime in the areas where my dog pees to lessen the impact, but every fall I end up reseeding a good deal of spots

            1. Thank you….figures we got the male that things he is a female. I’ll talk to the person doing the lawn and see what his lime plans are. We can easily do that too.

              2. Let me know what you find out! I’d be interested to see how they deal with it. When we first got our dog as a puppy everyone told us to train her to just go in one area of the yard but I thought that was ridiculous. Now, not so much, haha

                1. Sadly, we had our last dog trained to go to the side of the house we never used. This dog that is daughter and SIL’s…..not so well trained 😉 I’ll let you know for sure.

  12. Thanks TK.
    Something to watch for the interior Easter Sunday afternoon. From NWS out of Taunton. Just like in the winter model disagreement.
    GFS is most robust with steep mid level lapse rates and moderate instability while ECMWF is weaker with instability. We will have chc pops in the west where better
    moisture. Deep layer shear is increasing so there is a risk for a
    few strong storms if higher instability is realized.

  14. TK….lots of questions for you today. Do you have a sense of the wind speed and direction for Monday’s marathon? Hopefully, there will not be an east wind.

    1. Looks like west winds at 10-15 mph with gusts to 25mph+ behind Sunday night’s cold front. Good tail wind for the runners (and for flyballs to RF at the Sox game).

  15. Thank you, TK!

    Very April-like morning. Reminds me of a mid-October morning.

    Happy Birthday, Tom!

    Go Bruins! Very important win last night. Not a guarantee of anything, but it puts a lot of pressure on the Senators.

  16. Happy Birthday Tom!!!
    Joshua it was a good win.To me when your the road team in a series if you split the first two games before coming home for the next two games job well done. I am happy my Rangers won and Henrik Lundqvist looked very impressive with his 10th career playoff shut out.

  19. Thanks everyone !

    Vacation starts in 35 minutes 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

  20. Just checking through the SREF. Later Easter Sunday “could” get interesting
    as JJ alluded to earlier. Keeping an eye on it. Low passes through NNE with
    SNE in warm sector. Could generate some action as front approaches.

  22. Will have those showers overnight Saturday with the warm front. Were warm sectored Sunday then watching a cold front. If I had to guess right now I could see a situation where a line of showers and storms forms in NY State and then weakens on approach as it enters SNE which happens a lot this time of year. GFS has been consistent in showing enough instability for thunderstorm development. There not huge values in terms of CAPE and Lift but enough is there for thunderstorms.

  23. Only 56 at home in JP. Certainly within TK’s range, but underachieving based
    on Harvey’s predicted highs. He said 60. It “may” still get there, but I doubt it.

    Still not complaining as it is a really nice day.

  24. SAK handled the wind question. My answer would be basically the same.

    As far as the question about sky cover and dry vs. wet for Saturday. My current thought is brightest sun during the AM hours, fading sun during the PM to a solid middle overcast by evening at which time patchy very light to light rain may be around. I think a mid level instability burst stays to the north at the end of the day, but one may come through SNE later at night.

    For Sunday, I think the cold front arrives too late in the evening to bring any thunderstorms to southern New England but I won’t completely rule them out at this point.

  25. Boy, I know it’s still early in the Red Sox season, but this offense is really feeling the loss of Ortiz

  28. Not related to the weather but I found it funny that Discovery has a show called the Sacred Cod the same tittle I gave my paper Last year for my Ecological economics class final. I also did a similar tittle for my GIS project on Ground Fish. If you watch the documentary on Discovery you are watching my paper lol

      1. I was waiting for it, basically hoping I made it in time because I was coming from Lowell to that side of Woburn via Route 4. Made it just in time.

        1. Saw a beautiful sunset in Beverly tonight – it was even glowing dusky purple and pink to the north and northeast. That’s a great photo you took from Zion Hill.

    1. Frosts are still pretty routine outside the city through mid April and sometimes beyond. Air too dry up my way this morning.

        1. It was probably cold enough at the ground for some. Take off 5 to 8 degrees from your observed low temp to correct for ground level temp near a surface that does not hold extra heat.

      2. there were water droplets on my car when I went out at 8:30. I wondered if it had rained. Was that from a frost coating?

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