From High to Low

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4:00PM

High pressure has taken over the weather and brought in a fresh dry air mass from Canada. The dew point dropped below 50 at Boston today, something you don’t see much of in August. High pressure will continue to be in control for the coming 2 days as well, with crisp, dry air again on Friday after a rather cool night tonight! By Saturday, you’ll notice it feeling warmer and maybe not quite as dry, though it will still be comfortable. This will take place as the high pressure area begins to move offshore and allows a touch more humidity to creep in from the southwest. But before we would have a chance to build heat along with the humidity, a trough and low pressure system moving in from the west will bring another period of wet weather, possibly with significant rainfall amounts, by later Sunday into the start of next week. Things should move along so that we get back into fair weather by the middle of next week.

Detailed Boston Area Forecast…

TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Low ranging from the lower 50s inland valleys to near 60 in Boston and along the coast. Wind W diminishing to under 10 MPH.

FRIDAY: Partly cloudy. High 77-82. Wind NW around 10 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Clear. Low 55-60. Wind W up to 10 MPH.

SATURDAY: Sunshine, becoming filtered by some high cloudiness during the afternoon. High 80-85. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Low 65-70. Wind S 5-15 MPH.

SUNDAY: Cloudy. Showers becoming more likely as the day goes on, and may be heavy by late in the day or at night. High 73-78. Wind SE 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers. Low 65. High 75.

TUESDAY: Mostly sunny. Low 61. High 81.

WEDNESDAY: Partly cloudy. Low 64. High 79.

THURSDAY: Mostly sunny. Low 64. High 81.

26 thoughts on “From High to Low”

  1. DFW has gone from 96 to 84 and still falling. Let’s see if they can get below 79… Mom’s just getting home from the hospital and then I have some errands to run so I will check on DFW again later. As much as I love HHH weather, what a great comfortable day today. I can’t get over it! And to think how hard it was raining just 2 nights ago and how muggy it was, and that we may be back into that again by later Sunday. More reasons why I love New England weather. 🙂

  2. Happy your Mom’s OK.

    Many thanks for the updates.

    Before we know it, we’ll be talking up potential snow storms!!! lol

    2. And the fact that there are signs of La Nina returning has me concerned about snow early in the season. But, it’s just August, and we have plenty of time to discuss that one…

        1. From what I’ve read, it seems to be headed to a moderately strong La Nina, but not as strong as last winter. It’s currently neutral (neither El Nino or La Nina)
          Still no telling what the teleconnections will be like during the upcoming winter.

          1. Which is probably why Henry Margusity’s prelim snow map shows mostly “normal” snowfall for SNE and much of the I-95 corridor except coastal Maine. For now anyway, I sort of agree with him. I just don’t get the feeling Boston will see anywhere near 81″ like last winter but we will see. I do like “above” normal snowfall once again, however.

    1. I will – it really was perfect. And tomorrow looks like a carbon copy.

      I am not quite ready to be excited about snow just yet. Just give me 2 or 3 (no more than that this yr.) of HHH days and then bring on the Fall. The days are already getting shorter. But, I suppose – thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas – ok – almost ready! 🙂

  5. Anyone else going to try to catch a glimpse of the Perseids? Too bad about the full moon, because otherwise the weather is perfect for heading outside to stargaze. Or meteorgaze, rather.

    1. Absolutely, Christie! Even with the full moon limiting the view, it’s always worth a try on a clear night with no haze! If it were to be mostly cloudy or very hazy the next few years we wouldn’t see anything, so I’ll take a guaranteed limited view over no view any time. Hope you get a chance to see some. 🙂

  7. Marshfield got down to 55F last night and I see Taunton down to 51F. Combine this with the rain of the past week and our pool has cooled down significantly from the real warmth it had attained in late July……Its about now that there seems to be that one tree that starts turning colors way ahead of all the other trees……Looking forward to another great weather day today.

  10. Vicki,

    Yes. What we have to worry about is the steering currents as
    some of the others get closer, assuming they have developed into something.

    Hopefully nothing develops, or if it does, they are steered away from the US.

  11. Not that it means much this far out, but the GFS has # 2 moving off to East and #1 traveling the Southern route and passing south of Cuba and moving into the Gulf and eventually
    into Texas. (looks to be weak)

    Please note: The GFS is notorious out that far and ALSO, the GFS is not the model
    of choice to track hurricanes, but it was something to look at.

  12. These current tropical systems out in the Atlantic, while may be likely to be “named” at some point, IMHO are of little or no threat to the U.S. coastline. My bet is that September may be the time period with greatest potential for serious tropical activity. I just don’t believe that conditions are favorable for much of anything right now. It hasn’t been even close so far this summer. The Texas drought is a clear example.

  13. Philip,

    I disagree. With the potential build up of the Bermuda High Next week,
    there may be a threat for one or more of these systems or another for that matter.

  14. TX drought is a result of persistent mid continental ridging which becomes common in this set of climatological indicies. Not really any relation to tropical potential. We should be concerned about a western Atlantic ridge soon…

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