Wednesday Forecast

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7:39AM

DAYS 1-5 (JANUARY 24-28)
Watch for icy spots early to mid morning before sun, wind, and above freezing temperatures combine to eliminate it. Dry weather will dominate through Saturday with a trend to colder through Thursday, staying on the cold side Friday, then moderating as the weekend arrives. By Sunday, mild air will dominate and the next precipitation threat will be rain showers. Forecast details…
TODAY: Partly cloudy. Highs 35-42. Wind W 10-20 MPH with higher gusts.
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 15-22. Wind NW 5-15 MPH with higher gusts.
THURSDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 28-35. Wind NW 10-20 MPH with higher gusts.
THURSDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 10-17. Wind NW to N 5-15 MPH
FRIDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 28-35. Wind N 5-15 MPH.
SATURDAY: Partly sunny. Lows in the 20s. Highs in the 40s.
SUNDAY: Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers. Lows in the 30s. Highs in the 50s.

DAYS 6-10 (JANUARY 29-FEBRUARY 2)
Turning colder and breezy with a few rain and/or snow showers January 29. Fair and chilly January 30-31. Milder to start February with unsettled weather possible by February 2.

DAYS 11-15 (FEBRUARY 3-7)
Turning colder during this period. Watching for a possible mix/snow threat mid to late period.

66 thoughts on “Wednesday Forecast”

  5. Get well soon, Vicki and everyone not feeling well.
    Lots of nasty stuff going around.

    Thanks, TK…

    Earlier sunrise this morning. Solar glare AND black ice!
    Yikes!

  8. Thanks TK. Hope you feel better Vicki!!

    A very tranquil few days of weather ahead. Yesterday was an interesting one though. Not the first interior icing situation we’ve seen this winter, and I don’t think it will be the last. Pretty solid slug of rain also to the east.

  9. I do think we should keep an eye on a southern stream wave coming out of the Gulf around Monday. Currently projected as well OTS, but I think it may trend closer to the coast and try to ride up behind our next front. I recall a storm around this time two years ago which rode up behind a front and which the models didn’t key in on until a couple days before. The usual trend with these waves is west. Just something to watch.

  10. Tim, if you are reading, I left a couple of comments for you on yesterday’s blog. Didn’t want to tie up comments on current blog.

  13. The Euro set up for 2/3 looks mighty interesting, although it shows a pretty strong
    SE ridge, so the system may ride up as an inside runner. We shall see.
    Dying to see the 12Z run.

  17. And remember I posted earlier that last night’s Euro looked interesting for 2/3.
    Well, now try on the 12Z euro for size.

    https://imgur.com/a/saJEc

    Up to this point about 5 inches for Snow for Boston with more to come
    and a foot Plus N&W.

    1. Please work on slowing this down 48 hrs so I can have a snow day on the day AFTER the Super Bowl. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

  19. Hi all!

    Hope you are on the mend Vicki!

    To anyone else ailing that I may have missed if you mentioned it – get well!

    To everyone who is well – stay well!

    I have just gone through my 4th episode of atrial fibrillation in 3 weeks. I think I had 4 episodes of a-fib in the first 10 years I had the condition. Talk about an exponential increase! Anyway, this is a characteristic of this heart condition. I’m of the belief that the amount of medication in my 120mg delayed-release propranolol may not be enough to hold the heart to a slow enough rate to prevent increased instances of converting from sinus rhythm or atrial flutter to atrial fib. The secondary medication I take for the a-fib episodes works wonders and within 1/2 hour to a few hours will restore the heart to a quiet normal rhythm. I think it may be time to up the dose of the regular med, however. And we will see what that does. I always remind myself that there are far, far worse things one can suffer from. I’ll take this over all of those in a heartbeat (pun kind of intended). 😉

    Weather…
    No big changes to thinking after viewing the 12z stuff. I agree with WxWatcher that we should keep an eye on things heading through next Monday. For now I lean toward the GFS solution with this as I think the ECMWF may be slightly too amplified, but it can go either way and will continue to just watch it. Regarding a return to cold – yes we’ll be cold again, but I don’t feel it will be as persistent or as severe, relative to normal, as the events of late December and early January.

    2. Thank you, TK. I agree there are far more things to worry about than pneumonia. I was thinking about that earlier. I think, however, you underplay your a fib to your credit, but I agree with JPD…go after the dr. You know yourself better than anyone….even your Dr. Although, I seem to recall you have great respect for him.

  22. NAM was updated today at 12z.
    Added 345 reporting stations removed 15.
    New sky cover, pop, and QPF equations.

    Notice I said updated, not upgraded…

    Fun for all!

    Model thoughts – been leaning more 00 / 12 GFS than ECMWF lately. 3 out of the last 4 significant precipitation events the ECMWF has been 2 to 2.2 times too much Q at 120-168 hours. The one it didn’t over amp, it didn’t pick up on until 72 hours.

  23. I just saw an exclusive Ch. 7 interview with the Sutton school bus driver on the early evening news. Everyone is declaring him a hero.

  27. TK…please take care of yourself!
    You too, Vicki.

    WHW is going to have to start issuing its own injury/illness report like the Patriots!

    WBZ-Channel 4 has a Blizzard of 1978 40th anniversary special this Sunday, January 28 at the strange hour of 8:30 am.

  28. TK, take good care of yourself. Atrial fibrillation is a serious condition, as you know.

    Vicki and others, take good care of your respiratory illnesses. Pneumonia can be a serious condition if left untreated.

    As far as doctors are concerned, I admire them. But, I don’t consider them god-like. In fact I find that many do not provide especially helpful advice when it comes to follow-up treatment. Disease management is not their forte, generally, while acute care is something many doctors are very good at. Furthermore, there are still: a. many conditions that are very hard to properly diagnose; b. a large number of diseases without particularly good treatments available (especially so-called orphan diseases, but also others, such as different cancers (eg, pancreatic), Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, MS, and ALS); c. the combination of a and b imply that there is still a lot of unmet need. We’ve come a long way in terms of improving health, but we have a long way to go.

    1. An effective Alzheimer’s treatment is a ways off I’m afraid. Several companies have lost a ton of money, and other smaller ones have completely gone under because their trials failed. The problem with that disease is that the biology underlying the condition is poorly understood. And the models are even more woeful. Until the biology is worked out, finding a drugable target is almost impossible.
      Same with MS and ALS. Still working out the biology and trying to find a drugable target. Plus again, the models aren’t the greatest.

      TK, have they suggested ablation yet?

      1. Alzheimer’s is such a horrible disease. Macs mom and all three sisters had it. It makes absolute sense that the biology would have to be understood. Thanks for your comment.

      2. Not yet. Still at the stage of medication shift before we get to ablation. But it’s definitely on the table.

    2. Thank you, Joshua. I am one of those people who knows myself and when something in wrong. I have a new PCP out this way. Too hard to travel to NWH for regular stuff. My specialists are still there of course. Itll take the PCP time to know me. When I reappeared in the office Monday after the five days of Zithromax, they thought I just wasn’t giving it time. Fortunately, they listened, did an X-ray and switched antibiotics.

      It is incredibly important to be your own advocate or to help others advocate.

  29. Stupid , stupid idiot Brad Marchand 5 game suspension for clearly intentional elbow to head at the end of the game . Love you but what a dumb ass especially with Charlie out.

  30. Three lunar events will take place next Wednesday, January 31:
    Blue Moon,
    Supermoon
    and Blood Moon.
    According to accuweather.com, the last time all three occured on the same date was March 31, 1866.
    Bummer for us as the moon will be setting at 6:56 am as the eclipse is beginning. Totally will be at 9:07 am.

  34. have to say, many doctors have terrible social skills and many do not work well with others. It is also never their fault. I can not tell you how many times doctors will be talking in the middle of the ER hallways, I had a patient and I needed to get through, and they would get snappy at me because I told them they had to move lol. My favorite is the door slamming in the hall. there was the staircase door that for some stupid reason swings outwards, can not tell you how many times doctors run through that door and hit transporters going by with patients, then say its the patient transporters fault. Even though they are the ones not looking lol. My point are. Doctors are deff not god-like, several are not good people not saying that there are not really good people, but there is a huge system in place and if one piece goes missing , the hospital does not work and doctors sometimes forget that. In my opinion, Nurses need more credit for the BS they have to take from the doctors and being the ones that have to go to the patients room when ever the little buzzer goes off.

  35. Vicki and TK, feel better soon! and anyone else feeling under the weather.
    Interested in what is showing for the Jan. 29-30 time frame.

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