Sunday Forecast

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7:01AM

DAYS 1-5 (MAY 6-10)
Two northeastward-moving low pressure areas, one tracking from PA to southeastern Canada, the other passing offshore southeast of New England, will bring a cloudy, cooler, and occasionally wet day today, though many areas may escape rainfall for much of the day. Most of this will exit by early Monday, but some cloudiness may linger, and we’ll have to watch another wave of low pressure to the south that may end up close enough for some additional cloudiness at least and possibly a wet weather threat again at some point on Tuesday. Expecting high pressure to overtake the region with drier weather at midweek.
TODAY: Cloudy. A few periods of rain possible. Highs 58-65. Wind light variable.
TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Lows 48-55. Wind light variable.
MONDAY: Variably cloudy. A risk of light rain mainly Cape Cod early. Highs 60-66. Wind light variable.
MONDAY NIGHT: Variably cloudy. Lows 46-53. Wind light variable becoming SE.
TUESDAY: Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain favoring the South Coast. Highs 60-67. Wind light SE to E.
WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny. Lows in the 40s. Highs in the 60s.
THURSDAY: Partly cloudy. Lows from the upper 40s to lower 50s. Highs from the middle 60s to lower 70s.

DAYS 6-10 (MAY 11-15)
A cold front may bring a few rain showers May 11 followed by a dry May 12-13 weekend with a cool start and a warmer finish. A trough west of the region and high pressure offshore allow warmer air for May 14-15 but eventually the chance of some showers.

DAYS 11-15 (MAY 16-20)
Low confidence forecast, but there is the possibility an omega block develops during this period with low pressure nearby to New England. this would result in a trend toward unsettled weather for a few days with a system that doesn’t move much.

62 thoughts on “Sunday Forecast”

    1. Good thing that today isn’t Mother’s Day although it wouldn’t be the first gloomy one.

  4. Thanks TK.

    Not the nicest day today but can’t complain after the start to May we’ve had. Tuesday-Thursday this week look great, and we remain in a prevailing above average temperature regime. I agree with TK on low confidence day 10 and beyond. Just look at the difference between the operational GFS and its ensembles; the op run definitely shows more of that omega block pattern, while the ensembles keep things moving.

      1. Because climatology says the most likely places for the closed lows are East Coast & West Coast with an omega block. Once in a while it’s not quite like that but more often than not it is.

  5. Thanks TK !

    BB going for (12) 90F days this summer in Boston (and we’ve already had 1).

        1. I don’t remember. 🙂 I think it’s 10 or 12 or something. I’m sure Barry said it. I didn’t see him this morning.

  6. TK…the few showers during today….do they end before late evening. There is a meeting in town that will be outdoors and I’m hoping it will be rain free.

    Thank you

  10. Just returned from fishing for the 1st time this season.

    Great day in terms of numbers of fish, but nothing very big.
    Biggest fish was a 15 inch large mouth Bass.

    Only experienced a brief sprinkle around 8 to 8:30 AM just before I started
    fishing. Other than that, it remained totally and completely dry.

    Go Bruins!!

  11. Haven’t posting much lately (things have been pretty chaotic for me lately…nothing bad however…just chaotic) but I wanted to give people a heads up on latest Windows Spring 2018 update (build # 1803). If you can…hold off. Lots of issues for a lot people. Some of the issues are big and some are just annoying but it’s still the worst update for W10 since it’s inception back a couple of years ago. For the issues have been different with each of the 3 computers I installed the update on. Audio drivers messed up, apps not playing nice with each other, very slow boots, etc, etc. I’m rolling back to the previous build now on once computer to see how that goes. If you can..hold off until the get the bugs out of this one.

    1. Thank you, Keith. I have yet to upgrade to 10 although I have the ability

      May I assume it will not apply to 7?

      1. Hi Vicki,

        This is just for the latest update to Windows 10. It has really messed with some stuff here. CPU on one desktop is running hot and it never has before. Trying to figure it all out…ugghh.

        1. Oh wow. I don’t think of an update as affecting the system to the point that it overheats. Good luck.

          1. I think it was more of how it affected a couple of apps that seemed to be struggling with the update. I did restore to build 1709 and things are back to normal

    2. my dam laptop atomatically updated itself and thats what caused my laptop to not work right, It fried my motherboard. had it replaced, thank god for the warranty lol.

      1. Do you have windows 10?

        I’ve always set mine to update automatically but also check to see if any are missed.

    1. Which is right where I had them. Thankfully that’s working out. I had a lot of people asking me for specific forecasts for where the dry slot would be today…………….

  13. California looks to mandate all new houses to have solar panels. I hope more states follow suite.

        1. Some people just might not want them. It’s an added expense to maintain them and potential safety hazard in the event of a fire. Also, when they sell what if potential buyers don’t want them? What if the technology changes and panels are obsolete? Too many what ifs. I’m not against them in general, but I’m against any mandate to have them.

          1. Then people who don’t want them don’t buy them? Makes good sense to me.

            If they get fewer willing to build because of the mandate, then that is a win also. Too many new houses.

            And if they find it does harm, they reverse it.

            1. Maybe in other parts of the country, but there’s very little new building going on around these parts, at least for single family homes anyways

    2. Curious, Matt. The meeting I’m going to tonight is an informative meeting on a farm that wants to use a bit of its land for a solar array.

      1. I say let it happen its no ones land but the owner of the farm. Having solar panels on a property should not be determined by other people nearby. I would not want to be told I couldn’t have solar panels on my own property. Its as if you could not build a shed at all on your property even if its connected to your house and won’t be visible.

    3. To mandate a solar installation on your home is not the right approach. Make more affordable for home owners to self purchase and maintain then I would be behind it.

      1. It is already affordable.

        It’s the new homes that are not affordable. Some of the reason for that is cost of upkeep…electric bills are a huge part.

        Remember, this is for California and not MA. And again…if people do not like solar, they can buy another house. It isn’t lack of housing that has stalled the market. In good part, it is because houses are too expensive and most new homes are geared toward wealthy.

  14. Coastal, it would not mandate solar installation on a home that has already been built. It requires any new home thats being built, would be required to have some kind of solar power energy Be it via their own, or by a grid connected to solar. This would not change any house already built.

    Electric companies if your connected to the grid, will come out and fix it, just like any power outage or damage done to your electric now.

    Everyone hates their electric bill, I bet. Well if you have solar panels on your property and use that energy instead of the grid, when you do not use it all, it goes into the grid and you get a massive reduction in your electric bill, my friend had an electric bill of 0 a few times.

    And Ace, where the heck do you live that says there is not much building going on, they tore down an entire dam park for a housing community down the street, use to play in those woods. Now filled with rich people houses.

    The bills of maintaining the house tends to be what makes them affordable

  15. And when you replace the roof, the cost for removal and putting them back up is on you.
    And, I’m opposed to having the government tell me what to do with my own property like that.
    Government tells me what I can and can’t do for plenty of other stuff. Dont need something else.
    I looked into it here. Too expensive for little return. I know a guy who has them. He has a small house and it barely covers the power use, sometimes it doesn’t. The amount of sun you get at this latitude and the sun angle doesn’t generate a ton of power for enough of the year. Southern Cali you can get more power. But like I said, I’m opposed to more government mandates in general.

        1. removal and putting them back up is on you. I have heard from a friend that works with solar panels that that is not the case.

          1. You need to stipulate up front. It is a matter of doing due diligence. For those that do not, then that would be on them.

    2. I have many friends who have solar panels and they all are saving a large portion of their electric costs.

      As far as having the government tell you….I repeat. No one is forcing anyone to buy the house. This is for NEW builds. And California is, as usual, ahead of the grade on conserving. Many builders are offering solar as an option for new homes.

      https://www.curbed.com/2018/3/23/17157208/california-construction-building-code-solar-home

      https://www.proudgreenhome.com/articles/california-homebuilders-using-solar-to-exceed-code-requirements/

  16. You think some company that put on panels will come back in 25 years when you need a new roof or need a roof repair in 5 years and remove them and put them back up for free? Ha!

    1. And your source is? It was a fair question. I’m finding that there are instances where a cap is placed in the original contract for cost of removing and reinstalling panels. My guess is after 25 years you’d want to upgrade anyway.

  17. I don’t care if it’s a new house, old house, or s frickin grass hit. I don’t need the government mandating more bullshit, period.
    But then again I’m a small government guy and think the feds have too many mandates as it is.

    1. First if you read my sources you will see that CA is already doing much for green energy and for good reason.

      Second I am very conservative when it comes to town politics. Hence the meeting I’m headed to.

    2. In that case, no one should be able to tell me how tall my dam fence is, but they told us it can be no more than 8 feet and can not be right on the property line

  18. The tv mets are already advertising a wet Mother’s Day. Is this the dreaded omega?

  19. Rain started as I left for meeting. But they had a tent and it was well worth getting a bit wet. TK, you were spot on that it would clear out between 7 and 8…..meeting time

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