The Week Ahead

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11:30PM

We are currently in a pattern of no heat, though it is muggy, and somewhat unsettled weather. This will continue through the middle of the coming week as a trough of low pressure slowly moves across the northeastern US. This unsettled and muggy stretch may climax with a significant rain event on Wednesday.

When we get to Thursday, Friday, and the start of the weekend, a ridge of high pressure will bring drier weather, but by Sunday, we may be back into wet weather once again. The reason for that is that, unlike I thought the other day, the overall pattern is not going to change too much through the middle of this month. Eventually, I do expect a strengthening ridge of high pressure in the western Atlantic to bring a bout of classic summertime weather sometime during the second half of August.

The Boston Area forecast for the week ahead goes like this…

MONDAY: Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mostly east of Route 495. High 75-80. Wind N under 10 MPH.

MONDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Areas of fog. Low 64-69. Wind N under 10 MPH.

TUESDAY: Partly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms, mostly west of Route 495. High 74-79 coast, 80-85 inland. Wind E up to 10 MPH.

TUESDAY NIGHT: Cloudy. Rain and a chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Low 63-68. Wind SE up to 10 MPH.

WEDNESDAY: Cloudy. Rain and thunderstorms in the morning, tapering to showers in the afternoon. High 68-73. Wind variable 5-15 MPH.

THURSDAY: Variably cloudy. Low 62. High 77.

FRIDAY: Partly cloudy. Low 63. High 79.

SATURDAY: Mostly sunny. Low 64. High 82.

SUNDAY: Showers/thunderstorms. Low 66. High 74.

21 thoughts on “The Week Ahead”

  1. I hope that classic summertime weather is around August 20th! I’m getting married that day and I’m hoping for a dry, warm day to take pictures — getting nervous in this unsettled pattern!

  2. Thanks everyone for the kind words…….

    Very foggy here in Marshfield, though its starting to lift. I see on the visible satellite picture that sunshine is breaking out and the temps are zooming up with plenty of humidity remaining, even in a light northerly flow. Wonder if there could be some gullywashers this afternoon. Speaking of which, it poured on the south shore early in the afternoon yesterday, with rivers of water and deep standing water on many roads.

  3. I Usually begin to enjoy classic late Aug weather, average temps r between 75-80 degrees, we r starting to get to the time frame of when I begin to like the weather again. Even when it gets into the 80’s it’s not like mid June or mid July, the sun angle is already Lower and we r losing 2-3 min per day of daylight, it won’t be long now. Have a great day everyone and think Fall 🙂

  4. I am scheduled to have my tree in the front yard removed first thing Wednesday morning. It is leaning and rotting at the bottom of it. With all-day rains expected I guess I will have to reschedule if the forecast doesn’t change. We will see.

    Tom…good to hear from you again! 🙂

  6. DS – Congrats!

    Tom – Welcome back!

    Strange kind of day today, weather-wise. Bright and sunny then it clouds up with heavy showers. I am glad there hasn’t been any real severe weather – as yet if at all – but as Old Salty says there are some big storms in the Boston area.

  7. Wasn’t a bad storm. Heavy Downpours with a few rumbles of thunder. Not even
    close to severe, even though radar looked impressive.

  9. We had some impressive downpours on and off since 3:30 here in JP. Most of the storms should diminish as sunset occurs.

  11. I love the tropical feel today. Odd to have it with a light northerly air flow. Clean air made for high visibility storm clouds when they were not obscured by lower clouds.

    Highlights from today for me: Deluge in Reading MA at 2:15PM, so heavy that you could barely see even with the wipers on highest speed. Not a drop back home in Woburn at that time, but another cell rapidly developed right over the city at 2:30PM and by 2:45PM we had a good storm of torrential rain in progress. There were about a half dozen lightning strikes audible out of it, and 2 of them were less than 3/4 of a mile away. Another cell end of the 4PM hour, not as heavy, few rumbles, but photogenic!

  12. According to Barry’s 11:00 newscast, the drier air will not arrive after all overnight or tomorrow. It seems that the cold front is just going to “wash out” right over us so it’s going to be more of the same “oppressive” humidity until Thursday. 🙁

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