Friday Forecast

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7:19AM

DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 10-14)
Low pressure that passed by southeastern New England yesterday, redeveloping overhead late in the day and then turning into a powerful storm as it moved through the Gulf of Maine last night continues to head into southeastern Canada, expanding and maxing out intensity today. This, combined with high pressure approaching from the west, creates windy conditions which will remain in place through tonight. In addition, a pool of cold air aloft and a trough of low pressure will trigger plenty of clouds and a few instability showers as the day goes on. A few of these showers may grow enough to produce thunder and/or small hail. That activity will fade out and move away by evening. The weekend will be dry, still breezy and on the cool side Saturday but turning milder after a cold start on Easter Sunday. We can still see some passing fair weather clouds with a little lingering chill aloft on Saturday, and by later Sunday a shield of higher level clouds will begin to cover the sky in advance of the next low pressure system. This one will track northwest of New England on Monday, set to bring windy and wet weather to he region. As that gets closer we’ll get more detailed about it, but appreciable rainfall and damaging wind gusts cannot be rule out from that system even a few days in advance. By Tuesday, it will have moved beyond the region and we’ll enjoy a fair and rather mild day, albeit breezy once again. All in all just a typical 5-day period for spring in this part of the world.
TODAY: Partly sunny to mostly cloudy. Passing rain showers possible, especially afternoon, and some may contain thunder and small hail. Highs 45-52. Wind W 15-25 MPH, higher gusts, 35-45 MPH likely.
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 38-45. Wind W 10-20 MPH, higher gusts.
SATURDAY: Partly sunny. Highs 48-55. Wind W 10-20 MPH, higher gusts.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 32-39. Wind W 5-15 MPH.
SUNDAY: Partly sunny. Highs 55-62. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Clouding over. Rain arriving overnight. Lows 45-52. Wind S 5-15 MPH.
MONDAY: Cloudy. Periods of rain likely. Chance of thunderstorms. Highs 50-57 South Coast, 55-62 elsewhere. Wind S 10-20 MPH, stronger gusts.
MONDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy with rain showers evening. Partly cloudy overnight. Lows 43-50. Wind SW 10-20 MPH, higher gusts.
TUESDAY: Partly cloudy. Highs 60-67. Turning much cooler at night. Wind SW 10-20 MPH, higher gusts.

DAYS 6-10 (APRIL 15-19)
Much cooler weather for this period. Wave of low pressure passing south of the region April 15 may bring rain even brief mix to southern areas. A disturbance may bring rain showers later April 16. Another wave of low pressure may bring rain/mix and possibly even some snow to parts of the region late April 17 to early April 18 before dry weather dominates the end of the period.

DAYS 11-15 (APRIL 20-24)
Dry start to this periods. 2 more low pressure areas may threaten with wet weather in the April 22-24 window. Temperatures near to below normal.

27 thoughts on “Friday Forecast”

      1. More prone to negative effects is a definitive yes. Anything that affects your respiratory system would put you in a different category than a rigidly healthy person with no ailments. Allergies are, however, one of the few things that you can easily combat and lessen the impact of should you get the virus. Make sure you are taking medication for it every day. Limit your time and exposure to pollen outside. Remove clothing when you get home from outside and take a shower to wash off any pollen on your body. Also the other previous tips of washing hands often will also help. I’m likely going to leave windows closed more often to limit pollen exposure in the house.

  7. It appears that we are in for a very wet spring to say the least. I suspect summer mosquitoes will be very numerous, just another plague that we don’t need.

    1. We probably won’t end up “very wet”. After this “winterlude” the longer term trend is dry.

  10. Thanks TK!
    Getting some graupel here at the moment, with some decent wind gusts along with it.

  12. It’s interesting to watch the EURO in the mid range now.

    Big storm Monday, but at 500 mb, even after the storm passes by, the SE ridge hangs in there, potentially allowing one more wave to track somewhere along the east coast, before the SE ridge collapses.

    I think this follow up wave is the one to watch for wet snow potential. Will it come close enough though. If it does, I do think enough cold air may be present aloft for a rain to wet snow scenario, especially if it occurs at night.

    1. This situation should teach how valuable those teachers are, and if anybody doesn’t see that by the end of this, they’re blind to reality.

      Kind of puts things into perspective when you compare how much a professional athlete, charged with the job of entertaining sports fans, makes for money, with a teacher, who is charged with the job of educating the future of humanity. I love my sports too, but the assessment of value of those 2 professions is completely opposite, money-wise and for some people their understanding of it.

  17. Painful to watch the webcams at Killington and Sugarloaf today. Both getting buried with late season powder.

    Sugarloaf ended up with 20″ of new snow today.

    Impressive storm. It is still extremely windy even here right now…cant imagine what its like in northern ME.

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