Friday Forecast

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7:16AM

DAYS 1-5 (JUNE 7-11)
A frontal boundary to the south will still help create some cloudiness across the sky at times today, especially to the south, but it will be a nice day overall as high pressure moves in, and this will set up a great weekend, but again with the front not all that far to the south we may see additional high cloudiness at times especially nearer the South Coast. Early next week, the front starts a northward movement Monday as a warm front and clouds overtake the sky again along with a risk of wet weather by late Monday, and then a cold front crosses the region during Tuesday with showers/thunderstorms.
Forecast details…
TODAY: Mostly sunny north, partly sunny south. Highs 71-78. Wind light N.
TONIGHT: Mostly clear north, partly cloudy south. Lows 48-53 interior, coolest valleys, 53-58 elsewhere. Wind light variable.
SATURDAY: Mostly sunny but some filtered sun through high clouds to the south. Highs 71-78, but cooling back to upper 60s coast afternoon. Wind light variable to NW but coastal sea breezes.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 50-57. Wind light variable.
SUNDAY: Mostly sunny, but again sun filtered through high cloudiness especially to the south. Highs 77-84, cooler in some coastal areas especially Cape Cod. Wind variable to W 5-15 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 52-59. Wind W up to 10 MPH.
MONDAY: Increasing clouds. Highs 73-80, coolest coast. Wind light variable to SE.
MONDAY NIGHT: Cloudy. Chance of rain. Lows 58-65. Wind light SE.
TUESDAY: Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely. Highs 70-77. Wind S 10-20 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (JUNE 12-16)
High pressure brings fair weather June 12. Low pressure passing near to or southeast of the region June 13 brings a rain threat. A westerly flow and drier air arrives June 14. A warm front / cold front combo may visit the region later in the period with a risk of some cloudiness and passing showers / t-storms. Temperatures which will be somewhat variable will average out close to normal for the period.

DAYS 11-15 (JUNE 17-21)
A generally zonal (west to east) jet stream pattern with mean ridge of high pressure centered west of New England. This pattern sends a few chances of showers/thunderstorms this way but also brings fair and seasonably warm weather in between.

63 thoughts on “Friday Forecast”

  1. Thanks TK !

    Perhaps it is their track record this year, I have confidence in the Bruins in game 6.

    I also think the extra day off helps them out too.

    1. Tom I’ve always thought this was going 7 . I figured they’d win last night & drop the one on the road well now that’s been flopped. Look for a pissed off bruins team to take control of this series moving forward . Did the bruins loose last night because of a horrendous non call no but it was a contributing factor . Every single series not just bruins there have been crystal clear no calls & it’s an embarrassment for the NHL in whole .

  2. Mark, I’ve started a look at Hartford for the years 2000 – 2018.

    On the 30 year average, Hartford’s highest average high temp occurs from July 17th to the 22nd at 84.9F.

    In the very small sample size I’ve listed so far, there are 8 dates with average 18 year high temps higher than 84.9F.

    So far, the warmest is August 2nd and August 3rd, averaging 87.3F on both days during the last 18 years.

    Will be working on this further.

  3. The team that has scored first in this series eventually won the game. It’s that simple.

    1. That may be true in the recent games, but I don’t believe that was the case in games 1 and 2.

        1. I could have sworn that was true in all the games but since JPD backed you up, then I stand corrected. Regardless, it would be ideal for the Bruins to score first on Sunday if nothing else to keep the home crowd out of the game early, even if it’s just for a few minutes.

          For some reason the Blues have gotten into the Bruins’ heads by scoring first and it’s time to get into theirs for a change.

          1. Agreed !

            First goal would be great in game 6. And then the next 5 too 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

  4. Good morning and thank you TK.
    I have no words to describe how nice it is today!!! 🙂

    re: Bruins
    Despite getting royally hosed on a non-call that lead to the St. Louis winning goal,
    the Bruins had chances all night and just could NOT get the puck in the net.
    And so it goes….

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCaf8woXAeM

    1. Regardless of the sport, the team that is not playing well usually gets the bad calls (or non-calls) by the officials.

  6. Very nice today.

    Thank you, TK.

    Bruins are in trouble. They’re up against a much more physical team that’s been vastly underestimated in the media. The Blues have the best record in hockey since Christmas. They’re opportunistic, and have some players who you can tip your cap to if you’re a Bruins fan: Ryan O’Reilly has vastly outplayed Bergeron (who may be injured, by the way, judging from his apparent limited mobility). Faceoffs, goals, puck battles, everything. Tarasenko is a beast. Sanford’s a had a good series. In a nutshell, the Blues are better. Not on paper. But, series are never won on paper.

  8. I saw two very physical teams going at it. The bruins actually had more shots to the goal. Give it to the defense of the blues to hold the bruins attacks. There were some crappy calls though in the game and just about 6 unlucky bounces which could have gone either way in the goals.

  9. The Bruins need to bring back their mojo from game 3. They seem to have totally lost it ever since, much like the Celtics did after their game 1 at Milwaukee. Scary similarity.

    1. Yup, I remember that Summer well. 🙂 🙂

      But seriously, I do remember reading about it.

  11. Thanks Tom for the BDL data above! I was sort of joking with my request to move on and begin analyzing BDL given how time consuming it is!

    It is certainly interesting comparing the data to Logan’s. I am somewhat surprised to see Aug 2 and 3 showing up as the hottest summer days at both locations. I wonder if that record breaking heat back in early August 2011 where we hit our all-time record of 103F skewed the results in any way?

  13. I agree with Joshua and Philip on the Bruins….they have their work cut out for them. I think St Louis is going to come out hard on home ice in Game 6 as they do not want to be playing a Game 7 back in Boston. That arena should be rocking with the chance for the Blues to win the Cup on home ice for the first time in franchise history. And Binnington has been tough.

    If the Bruins can weather the storm in the first period and get an early goal to quiet things down, I think they have a chance. And if they can bring it back to Boston, I definitely like them in a Game 7. Not going to be easy though.

    1. I like the bruins in 7 games as originally thought . People are hitting the panic button a little to soon . Watch the bruins will have like 20 power plays . Another Blues player sitting down with the board today after a dirty hit . St. Louis is nasty dirty & I will be shocked , shocked if this doesn’t go 7 . Bruins will play these next two games like you’ve never seen . Bruins were out hitting them and out shooting them and the blues are starting to ware down .

      1. that non call last night is going to cost the Blues you’ll see. The blues will get called for sweating on the ice people are furious & calling for the refs in that game to be relieved

  14. If the Blues win the Stanley Cup they were last place in the entire NHL on January 3rd.

    1. New Mexico?

      Not in New England that’s for sure. I presume you mean this country?
      and not Europe or Canada?

    1. Fits in perfectly with those warm autumns and cold springs. 😉 Ok so it’s opposite!

      1. but its showing snow falling more wide spread in the fall in Eurasia not North America and the arctic regions have warmed more so than the mid-latitudes 😉

  17. Geez, that’s a big help…..

    Ok, I’ll make another guess with that info.

    Now I guess
    Bosnia and Herzegovina somewhere near Sarajevo

  18. And it can’t be Southern Hemisphere, else there would be MORE
    snow.

    I suppose it could be somewhere in Northern Japan.

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    1. I think there would be more snow. My Niece lived in Santiago and they
      had tons of snow my this time of year (just East of the city, less than an hour away).

      Just my good for nothing thoughts.

      I think it is Northern Hemisphere where there has been melting.
      But I’ll be proven wrong for sure.

  20. Mark you are driving me insane and keeping from other things I should be doing.
    C’mon, no one else is guessing. Give it up.

    The Pyrenees Mountains between Spain and France????

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  22. Dave, you got warm with your guess above at 4:17PM then colder again with your guess of the Pyrenees.

    Ace is colder yet (BTW, nice to see you here!)

    TK is a frozen block of ice.

  24. Predictions in meteorology are fraught with difficulty, as we all know. But, at least one can explain, say, unexpected events based on observations and scientific calculations.

    Not so in the social sciences. Today’s stock market jump is a perfect example. Totally irrational, given the very poor job numbers this morning, trade war talk, tariffs, bond market, and global slowdown. Yet, because the stock market appears to only care about easy money it is responding to an anticipated Fed rate decrease (this would lower interest rates, which boosts credit, and so forth and so on). That’s at least the ad hoc explanation. Not rational, by any stretch of the imagination, unless all traders behave like ostriches, or only have short term goals in mind. Now, the latter may be true. I believe traders pay lip service to so-called “fundamentals,” when in reality all they care about is the ease with which money can be gotten. Of course, there comes a point at which easy money becomes massive debt. We’re well on our way to a massive debt crisis – government, businesses, and consumers, all three of which live on borrowed money.

    As John Maynard Keynes said in the 1930s, much of what drives the stock market is psychological. He called it “animal spirits.”

    1. the way it works is unsustainable both in that its all barrowed money but also the fact that our natural resources just can’t handle it. We are already seeing it being impacted by degrading natural resources.

      1. Correct, this is the southern part of the mountain chain arc, the “Transylvanian Alps” in Romania. Pretty impressive, would love to visit someday!

          1. Oh dear. That was going to be my guess. Joshua, did you cheat by reading my mind 😉 😉 😉

            Awesome photo, Mark. It was fun seeing the guesses.

  28. Good morning and thank you Mark for that little quiz yesterday, even though it drove me nuts. Geography has always been a thing with me and I was very disappointed in myself that I couldn’t get the answer. I still have a little hair left as much of it is still on the floor.

    1. I had no clue but enjoyed the guesses and loved the photo. It was fun to just be a byreader.

  29. Not surprised I was on the opposite side of the world with that guess. That fumigation I endured messed with my head for 2 days.

    Recovered now.

    Updating blog and that will be posted soon!

  30. I’m a day late with this, meant to link it yesterday, Prince’s birthday. They just announced that there will be a release of 15 songs that Prince wrote that were hits for other artists / bands, such as “Manic Monday” and “Nothing Compares 2 U”, but all of the versions were recorded by Prince himself before he handed them off to the artists that recorded them for their own albums. I heard some audio clips. They sound great (like Prince would have made a bad recording).

    But since his music was very hard to find on the net before his death, a few things have surfaced since, including this just-under-hour-long set of jazz/funk instrumental tunes he did back in 1977 with a couple other musicians. These are brilliant. Very upbeat as well! If you are familiar with the band Level 42 (had a hit in the 80s with “Something About You”) this music reminds me of their sound, and of course many other funk/jazz influenced acts.

    If you need 55 min of great instrumental tunes, here they are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOc2MzvqbN0

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