Saturday Forecast

9:23AM

DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 25-29)
A break between systems today, but clouds will cross a large portion of the region this morning while in the process of gradually dissipating, but thick enough to blot out the sun for a while, especially southern NH and northern into central MA. The next low pressure system arrives during Sunday and what we are now seeing for this and probably the system after it, is a little more blocking in the atmosphere, meaning these systems will take a little more time to pass. So wet weather that arrives during Sunday will lingering through much of Monday. But as previously stated, there is quite a bit of cold air for this time of year available, and so this next system will have the ability of drawing on that while also manufacturing its own cold air. What does this mean? It means that some places are going to flip to snow for a portion of the storm’s passage, favoring higher elevations of interior MA and southern NH. This should occur as early as Sunday night, and that timing means that some accumulation may also occur – current thinking is up to but no greater than 3 inches in the highest elevations. This would melt right away Monday even if it was still coming down as snow, just due to the daylight / time of year. On the plus side, the slower movement of systems now evolving also means that we’ll get a nice 2-day break between systems on Tuesday and Wednesday (originally I thought the next low pressure area would be here by Wednesday).
TODAY: Morning-midday cloudiness especially southern NH and northern to central MA with more sun to the southeast. More sunshine afternoon.
Highs 48-55 coast, 55-62 inland. Wind E 5-15 MPH.
TONIGHT: Clouding over. Lows 38-45. Wind E up to 10 MPH.
SUNDAY: Cloudy. Rain arriving southwest to northeast midday and afternoon. Highs 43-50. Wind E-NE 10-20 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Cloudy. Periods of rain, mixing with or turning to snow interior higher elevations of MA and southern NH with accumulation of a coating to 2 inches, locally 3 inches, possible. Lows 33-40. Wind NE 10-20 MPH.
MONDAY: Cloudy. Periods of rain, may continue to mix with snow higher elevations of interior locations but with no additional accumulation. Highs 38-45. Wind NE 10-20 MPH, higher gusts.
MONDAY NIGHT: Cloudy evening with lingering rain/drizzle, mix higher elevations interior locations. Lows 32-39. Wind NE-N 10-20 MPH.
TUESDAY: Partly sunny. Highs 48-55, coolest coast. Wind variable 5-15 MPH with sea breezes.
TUESDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 38-45. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.
WEDNESDAY: Partly sunny. Highs 48-55, coolest coast. Wind SE up to 10 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (APRIL 30-MAY 4)
April 30 through May 2 is the current time frame for the impact of the next in a series of low pressure systems, though most of the impact due to rainfall should (and once again potential interior higher elevation mix) would be April 30 and May 1 with lingering instability showers possible May 2. A brief break for May 3 would be followed by another risk for unsettled weather on May 4. Temperatures below to much below normal.

DAYS 11-15 (MAY 5-9)
A pattern of below normal temperatures and unsettled weather is expected to continue. Won’t rain nearly all the time, but no long stretches of dry weather in here either.

19 thoughts on “Saturday Forecast”

  1. Not a surprise given the season and the circumstances, temperatures are over-performing away from the coast. Spectacular day in an otherwise cool/wet pattern.

  2. Went to Good harbor beach in Gloucester today. It was fantastic! had a beer and sub sandwich on the beach and then walked it a couple of times. What a day.

    1. How special. A favorite of mine. We used to have picnics there weekly in summer after Mac got home from work. Then to bearskin neck for ice cream.

  3. Thanks TK!
    WxWatcher thank you for the answer to my question last night, my apologies for not responding sooner. It’s great that you have an ability to freely post on a blog such as this. You are absolutely correct this blog is a real gem that we are all very fortunate to have, thanks to the constant effort and hard work of TK, in which I for one am very grateful for. The fabric of the crew on here is made up of many different threads, but the one common thread that keeps us all together is weather!

  4. TK – Frozen (mix) precip overnight Monday night for Boston n&w?

    That would be close to 4/28-29/1987 anniversary (4.1”).

    1. That event was colder than this one will be. I had over 10 inches in that system. But most of the frozen will be in the hills and occur tonight.

  5. The Patriots really focused on defense. I see a lot of fans not happy about it and I think it’s because offense gets glorified. With how much of a focus teams are putting on up tempo offenses – if you have a really strong defense to combat that and your opponents haven’t put as much into their defenses you have a pretty good shot even with a middling offense. I feel like next year I’ll be rooting for both the pats and tampa bay. lol

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