Thursday Forecast

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7:07AM

DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 11-15)
Active April pattern means don’t get used to any one type of weather, be ready for frequent changes, starting with high pressure bringing fair weather today. Low pressure travels through the Great Lakes into southeastern Canada Friday and Saturday and its cold front moves across the region with rain showers Friday night into early Saturday. High pressure noses in enough to bring drier weather for a good part of the weekend, though showers may be slow to exit southeastern areas early Saturday and additional rain may arrive in southwestern areas by later Sunday, as low pressure moves into the Ohio Valley and its warm front approaches by then. This low will make a somewhat complex crossing of the Northeast for Monday (Patriots Day, Boston Marathon, early Red Sox game scheduled) with wet weather, but the timing and details of that rain, which may not be totally solid all the way through, is still uncertain, depending on pretty precise configuration yet to be known.
Forecast details…
TODAY: Mostly sunny to partly cloudy. Highs 52-59, coolest coast. Wind NW 5-15 MPH becoming light variable with sea breezes.
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 38-45 evening then rising temperatures overnight. Wind S 5-15 MPH.
FRIDAY: Mostly cloudy. Highs 48-55. Wind S to SE 5-15 MPH.
FRIDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely arrive west to east. Lows 42-49. Wind SW 10-20 MPH with higher gusts, shifting to W late.
SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy early to mid morning with lingering rain showers southeastern MA and RI, then partly to mostly sunny with most clouds lingering Cape Cod and Islands. Highs 52-59 Cape Cod and Islands, 60-67 southeastern MA and southern RI to southeastern CT, 67-74 elsewhere. Wind W 10-20 MPH.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 45-52. Wind W 5-15 MPH with higher gusts.
SUNDAY: Increasing clouds. Rain possible end of day or nighttime, especially south and west of Boston. Highs 55-62, cooler some coastal areas. Wind light variable with sea breezes.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Cloudy. Rain likely. Lows 45-52. Wind SE 5-15 MPH.
MONDAY (PATRIOTS DAY): Cloudy. Rain showers likely. Steadier rain possible. Highs 48-55 but may end up slightly warmer. Wind E to variable, possibly S up to 10-20 MPH, higher gusts coastal areas.

DAYS 6-10 (APRIL 16-20)
Active pattern will continue. Current rough timing of systems places threats of wet weather late April 17 to early April 18, and late April 19 to early April 20. Temperatures start out near to below normal with plenty of wind April 16, then trend milder thereafter.

DAYS 11-15 (APRIL 21-25)
Similar pattern with rough timing bringing wet weather threats around April 22 and 24. Temperatures variable, averaging near to slightly above normal overall.

46 thoughts on “Thursday Forecast”

  2. Thanks, TK…

    Go Bruins, Sox, Masters! Great time of year if you’re a sports fan! I love playoff hockey, especially Game 7s.

  5. Good morning and thank you TK.

    Well, the Red Sox are improving!!!! They didn’t lose yesterday. 🙂 🙂

  6. Thank you, TK.

    Watching mother natures work in changing from one season to the next in New England is absolutely fascinating. Life is certainly grand in our part of the world.

  7. Thanks TK
    Captain Fantastic I agree with you great time of year if your a sports man. Masters starts today, NHL playoffs underway, NBA playoffs start Saturday, and before you know it the first Saturday of May will be here and it will be the Kentucky Derby.

    1. I forgot the Frozen Four tonight with two New England teams represented!!!!
      Providence plays Minnesota-Duluth (5 pm) and Denver takes on UMass at 8:30!!!!!!

      I will be picking up extra AA batteries for the clicker tonight!!!!!

        1. My wife and I both call it the “clicker” as well even
          though I am fully aware that the proper term is
          “remote”. 🙂 🙂

          Must be an age thing.

  8. This blog would be lighting up like a Christmas tree if we were having the weather they are having today in Minnesota. Tweet from Ryan Hanrahan
    Severe thunderstorm warning in Minnesota west of Minneapolis in the blizzard. Pretty wild. Not a huge surprise given nearly 1,000 j/kg of elevated CAPE (above the stable layer with steep mid level LRs) and 35 knots of effective shear. Enough to produce marginally severe hail.

    1. I hope next week this time or later down the road, they won’t have to deal with major flooding issues. It has to warm up again soon.

  9. Thanks TK!
    Interesting the sever thunderstorm warning within the blizzard. I guess it’s theoretically possible for a tornado to occur during thunder snow. However any credible evidence of it is hard to come by. There have been tornados that have occurred with snow on the ground.

    1. I have never heard of a tornado during a snow event but with our ever changing climate, I guess anything out of the ordinary is possible.

  10. In the blizzard of 2013 parts of CT had small hail during the storm. Of course I won’t forget the snow band which delivered half of foot of snow in one hours in parts eastern CT.

  12. In an item unrelated to weather, Channel 4 is reporting that Stop and Shop employees have gone out on strike and their stores have closed as of 1:15.

    1. Thrilling win yes, but stressful at the same time. I think I am going to be in heart failure by the end of the series if each game is that tight.

      Now tonight my attention shifts to the Bruins who I will be rooting for hard to take down that traitor John Taveras (or Pajama boy as us Islander fans now like to affectionately refer to him 🙂 )

  15. I need to clarify something here.
    A severe thunderstorm warning in one part of a big state and a blizzard warning in another part of the same state has not only happened numerous times, it’s actually not that unusual during the spring.

    The severe thunderstorm warning was not IN the snow area. It was ahead of it, in the warm air mass.

    But to answer a question asked earlier, has their been severe weather in places with snow on the ground? Many, many, many times. Spring is severe weather season. The Plains are vast. The media is SO into making everything sound sensational everybody seems to be buying this never-before-seen thing with every event. It’s actually getting old hearing it over and over and over. It’s time to just go back to reporting the weather. It’s sensational enough on its own. 😛

    1. My understanding is that the severe thunderstorm warning happened in the area being affected by the blizzard….i.e. the warnings overlapped at the same time.

        1. Even with that, potent convection can occur in an area getting snow. We see it all the time around here in our bigger winter storms. The March 29 1984 snowstorm had numerous cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in its heavy snow bands including a couple strikes on houses in Metro Boston. The weather can be taught in a text book, but the atmosphere does not always behave according to one. 😉

        2. On a completely unrelated – mostly – note. I am really happy to see someone say they didn’t read the whole post. I find I too often read part, have a thought, know I’ll forget it if I keep reading, comment on that thought, then go back and read the rest when the person replies. Old is an interesting state so it’s nice to hear a younger person who has done the same.

          Carry on – just want to say you made my afternoon, Mark!

          1. LOL. Sometimes it’s the little things…..

            This is what happens when you are trying to do three things at once!

  18. Thanks for sharing those photos Mark. Good luck to your Islanders the rest of this series against Pittsburgh.

    1. I would very much love it if the Islanders would sweep the Penguins right out of the playoffs. 🙂

  20. While I’d love a sweep, I think this series is going to be a battle and probably going 6 or 7 games. Penguins have lots of playoff experience. I’d be perfectly content with a series win of any kind.

    1. If there is going to be a team coming out of the east other than the Bruins, I really want it to be the Isles. I know a sweep against Pittsburgh is highly unlikely, but if the Islanders take it game by game, anything is possible. Go NYI! They have been my 2nd favorite team since I can remember.

  22. Providence College lost. But once again they had a great season. Great hockey program, especially given the size of the school.

    Bruins tied at 1.

    Sox losing again. They’re dreadful, plain and simple. I’m getting way ahead of myself, but if they’re sellers at the deadline the Sox have some pieces to unload and some farm system to replenish.

    1. Well, my prediction was Bruins in 6, which means they have to lose 2. My initial prediction was for them to lose games 1 & 3. I’m right so far. 😉 hahaha

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