Tuesday Forecast

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7:38AM

DAYS 1-5 (JULY 24-28)
A quick update today finds things pretty much the same. Limited showers today as the ridge is at its westward limit for now, and will then wobble back east and let a front get a little closer later Wednesday then pass through the region Thursday, which will have the greatest shower/storm threat as previously mentioned. Now it does appear that a little drier air will sneak in for the end of the week. No, don’t look for a refreshing Canadian air mass. It will still be humid, just not as humid, and the shower threat will drop off considerably as well. Forecast details…
TODAY: Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms mainly well west of Boston. Humid. Highs 78-87, coolest South Coast. Wind S 5-15 MPH.
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Patchy fog. Very humid. Lows 64-72. Wind S 5-15 MPH.
WEDNESDAY: Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms may becoming more scattered to general in western areas later in the day. Humid. Highs 78-87, coolest South Coast. Wind S 5-15 MPH.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Showers and possible thunderstorms increase from west to east. Humid. Lows 67-74. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.
THURSDAY: Variably cloudy. Numerous to scattered showers/thunderstorms. Humid. Highs 76-83. Wind SW 5-15 MPH becoming W then variable.
FRIDAY: Partly cloudy. Isolated showers. Less humid. Lows from the middle 60s to lower 70s. Highs from the upper 70s to upper 80s, coolest South Coast.
SATURDAY: Partly cloudy. Lows in the 60s. Highs from the upper 70s to middle 80s, coolest coast.

DAYS 6-10 (JULY 29-AUGUST 2)
Still expecting overall pattern to remain configured with a trough centered Midwest and Great Lakes and ridge off the East Coast with a fairly warm and humid pattern and a few shower and thunderstorm opportunities.

DAYS 11-15 (AUGUST 3-7)
Same pattern continues…

60 thoughts on “Tuesday Forecast”

    1. I have but not for a while and I do not think I can ever see it too much. This little angel was given an amazing gift. I cannot watch without tears. Thank you for starting my day in such a lovely way.

    1. I may have to start watching and yes, I am the epitome of a fair weather sox fan. And I was very disappointed in the PBS special on Ted last night.

      1. Watched about 1/2 hour of it.

        Found it to be interesting (but not enough to watch the whole program), but you knew him so you could only be disappointed.

        1. I can see why you only watched half. They just repeat high level stats that anyone can find anywhere. They don’t capture the heart of the man. They never even mentioned how much he did for others.

  7. Thanks TK
    Red Sox fans thank Gary Sanchez for picking up a game on the Yankees. He does not hustle out of the box bottom of 9th when throw went to second Aaron Hicks was safe but enough time to throw to first to get Sanchez since he was not hustling. INEXCUSIBLE! In addition bottom of 1st passed ball on Sanchez and ball ends up going on third base line. Sanchez walks to get the ball and runner on 2nd base scores on that for Tampa with a bad throw from Sanchez.

    1. And that is WHY the SOX will win the AL East and advance to the World Series
      leaving the Yankees in the dust!! GOOD!!!!

  8. I said this last night if the Yankees end up losing the AL East by one game and play in that one game playoff to advance remember this game where Sanchez did not hustle out of the box against Tampa on July 23rd. Gary Sanchez should be benched for that lack of hustle.

    1. You are absolutely correct about benching for lack of hustle.

      Yaz was benched back in 1969 (I believe) for lack of hustle.

      1. For all the money these major leaguers make they should be hustling 90 feet all the time. No excuses. If Mookie Betts for example did that in a game especially in a bases loaded situation down one run bottom 9th two outs Red Sox would be disgusted like Yankees fan are today.

        1. I was in Islamorada at Ted’s home for my winter break from Katy Gibbs. Ted got Yaz on the phone and spent about a half hour yelling at him that he set the example for the team and he was always to run in from left field. Yaz didn’t listen and was benched. I do not understand why Sanchez has not been benched.

          1. I agree with you. I think Gary Sanchez should be benched. He hurt his team by not hustling. He hustles he is safe as the throw went to second where Hicks was called safe. Throw beats Sanchez by three feet. The game would have been tied with bases loaded. Let’s go back to bottom of 1st passed ball on Sanchez ball ends up going up third baseline and he does not hustle to get the ball. Runner from 2nd base scores.

              2. I can’t remember the last time I saw a runner from 2nd base score on a passed ball. A message has got be sent here and you have to bench him for the lack of hustle. The one run difference in the game was the passed ball from 1st where the runner scored from second. That does not happen and Sanchez hustles Yankees take one run lead at least going into bottom of 9th.

      1. Thanks Vicki. I get the impression by your response that more could have been covered. That documentary was definitely lacking in areas.

        1. It was just a compilation of things most of us knew and anyone could have found. And having his younger daughter speak made me sick. She and her brother were horrible to Ted. If any one of the children should have been on the show, it should have been his older daughter.

    1. That literally took my breath away – how incredible. Thank you, Joshua, for sharing this with us.

  12. Really like the blue sky today ! At least the air over the ocean is somewhat clean.

    More sun today has temps overachieving in eastern areas, running 85 to 88F.

  13. On sports, the Red Sox keep rolling. The Yankees are slipping. They better get their gears in shape or the series next week will be less meaningful. Sanchez is a problem. Good hitter, but this year that’s not been the case. Poor defensively, and generally a lazy player. Not Yankee-like.

    Pet peeve of mine is the constant harping on the “lack of competition” in the MLB. It is an utter fallacy with lots of revisionist history. It reminds me of comments about the weather – “it’s never been this hot before.”

    The National League is extremely competitive this year – a truly fascinating pennant run awaits us in the NL. In the American League, there is much less parity this year. There are 3 juggernauts and 3 truly horrible teams, with a good amount of mediocrity thrown in. But, people conveniently forget that the Rays are over .500 (in the AL East, that’s impressive), the A’s and Mariners very good teams (would have the best records in the NL!), and the Indians are no slouch.

    Ironically, the criticism on sports radio is often coming from hosts who favor the NBA and NFL over MLB. But, if there are leagues where there is a competition problem, with perennial winners and losers they are the NBA and NFL! Astoundingly predictable, year in and year out. Baseball, on the other hand, in recent times, has a different WS winner every year. And with the exception of the now horrid KC Royals (!) over the last 6 years the two teams that appeared in the WS were all different. This year has many surprises in the offing, including several teams in the NL who were doormats last year (Phillies and Braves), and then several other small market teams who are really good (Milwaukee, Seattle, and Oakland).

  14. What you would expect for reactions from fans on Gary Sanchez
    https://nesn.com/2018/07/yankees-fans-react-to-gary-sanchezs-lack-of-effort-on-social-media/

    The Rays who you mentioned Joshua are 51-49. They started season 2-11. Scrappy bunch of players and they traded some of their big names last offseason. Mariners trying to get into the playoffs for first time since 2001 and Oakland really playing good baseball over the past month. When they went in took 3 out of 4 in Houston they got my attention. Now only 2.5 games out of second wild card. They have lot of homes games between July 31st and Sept. 10. Phillies and Braves were not the two teams you thought when the season began battling for NL East.

    1. Precisely, JJ.

      I do understand baseball no longer appeals to some people. But, I don’t like a false or misleading narrative – “it’s because of the lack of competition.” That’s a bogus argument.

      I was around in the 70s when there were juggernauts and have-nots. There were some very bad baseball teams back then, and some very good ones, and a lot of mediocre and average teams in between. I think there was less parity in the game then than there is now.

      The separation between very good and very bad teams is more pronounced this year in the American League. But, we shouldn’t forget that some of those really bad teams were really good only a few years ago, including the Royals (won it all 3 years ago) and to a lesser extent the Orioles.

      1. I agree re lack of competition. I don’t like it because of the lack of sportsmanship. And that is different.

  15. The small market teams have a small window of opportunity to win a championship. The Royals won 2 pennants and a World Series. If your one of those teams if you don’t win in that small window your going to lose your big names to free agency since you don’t have the financial ability to pay these guys.
    Gary Sanchez heading back to DL and had MRI today. It certainly didn’t look like an injury to me with that lack of hustle out of the batters box in the bottom of the 9th but I will let others comment on that.

  16. For those that do not know or forgot, remember SHARK WEEK!! When ever your in the ocean, your swimming with sharks, and they never go for ya 😉

  17. A lot of people refer to this pattern as HHH. It’s only one H. Humid. It’s not hot since the temps generally stay below 88 in a pure tropical pattern up here. And it’s pretty much never hazy in this pattern either because the air is coming directly from the Caribbean. For haze, you need air from the Midwest or somewhere in the South, that has had time to build up ozone and pollutants. And this doesn’t happen as often as it did in the 1970s and 1980s because the air over this country is somewhat cleaner than it was then.

    2. I respectfully submit that I think of it as HH – I consider anything over 80 hot. Not a complaint but just feels hot. Same as anything under say 45 is cold.

        1. While technically it’s not hot, it feels hot. And while it’s less hazy than it was in the 70s (great comment, TK, I remember how hazy it was then), it’s still not a September/October sky. Oh, how I love an October sky and the light during that month. A photographer’s dream.

          We can say that cleaner air is in part due to a sizable segment of our manufacturing moving overseas. And what’s left of our manufacturing is `cleaner’ than it was before. Plus, cars are much `cleaner’ than they were before.

    3. The good news is that it is not so hot to preclude exercise outdoors, and that can make the weather much more tolerable. Oh, that and a little AC. 🙂

      JPD I saw another Black Crowned Night Heron today watching for fish at a dam/waterfall near Watertown Sq. on the Charles. It was ten yards from a Blue Heron. Beautiful sight.

      The forecasts on this blog have been so helpful to planning and expectations. This has certainly not been a washout of a week.

      Vicki I am a big TW fan. His analysis of hitting (The Science of Hitting) is still the bible, in my view. Most hitting instruction today is still a footnote to Williams’ teaching

      1. Well I had a reply to your comment but no idea where it went. Undoubtedly, something I did. 🙁

      1. The east WIND has picked up the seas to around 3 to 5 feet around shoals it was a fun boat ride

    1. Probably never. They may see an isolated shower. Anything else arrives after midnight.

  19. JJ, it looks like the Yankees have a modern day Manny Ramirez on their hands. Despicable. And he weasels his way out of it by sliding back onto the DL. They are a better team without him anyway. It’s one thing if he was hitting but he hasn’t even been doing that.

  21. This is true tropical, not going over 90 and it’s humid, was down in st Thomas in July t years ago did not see any day over 90

    1. A lot of people that have never been to the tropics think 90+ all the time. Days over 90 in the tropics and even South Florida are fairly rare.

  22. I will compromise and give this day a “Top 25” day since there were deep blue skies most of the time, a breeze, and most of all NO RAIN at any time. 😉

    If we could have knocked off 5-7 degrees off the dewpoints it would have passed for me as a top 10 day. This humidity absolutely STINKS!!

    I suspect Thursday will certainly be a true “Bottom 10” day.

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