Friday April 29 2022 Forecast (6:24AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 29 – MAY 3)

On we go with the upper low spinning about just to our east, keeping us breezy and cool for the last couple days of April. These conditions mean that brush fire danger will be on the high side as well. High pressure nudges eastward to bring a fair and milder day to start off May and end the weekend. A weak low pressure area arrives from the west later Monday with some threat of wet weather, but this should move out on Tuesday with fair weather returning.

TODAY: Intervals of sun & clouds. Highs 50-57. Wind NW 10-20 MPH, higher gusts.

TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 38-45. Wind NW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

SATURDAY: Sun/cloud mix. Highs 51-58. Wind NW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 38-45. Wind W up to 10 MPH.

SUNDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 60-67. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 42-49. Wind variable under 10 MPH.

MONDAY: Increasing clouds. Afternoon rain showers possible. Highs 60-67. Wind S 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY NIGHT: Cloudy. Rain showers likely. Lows 48-55. Wind S up to 10 MPH.

TUESDAY: Clearing. Highs 60-67. Wind W up to 10 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (MAY 4-8)

Unsettled weather with the passage of low pressure and a frontal system May 4, with another episode of unsettled weather later May 5 into May 6. Cooling trend expected.

DAYS 11-15 (MAY 9-13)

Similar pattern, weak blocking favoring cooler than normal temperatures and a tendency to be on the dry side.

34 thoughts on “Friday April 29 2022 Forecast (6:24AM)”

  2. Thanks TK !

    There was a brush fire in a salt marsh yesterday in Marshfield. The fire chief did comment on the winds and how it was spreading very quickly. The fire department did an excellent job containing it before it spread out of the marsh.

    2. ‘Tis indeed fire season.
      Ours will extend out a bit this year because leaf-out has fallen behind last year and we’ll continue to be in a cool/dry pattern. I think a lot of temps next week are being vastly over-forecast, especially for the coast.

      1. I haven’t yet been able to determine what part of town it was in. I’m not great with street names and relating to where that is. 🙂

        We’ve had some closer to our area in past years. One year, there is one in the marsh on Rte 139 about across from Gerard Turkey store.

        Its really strange to see the marsh grass burnt once the fire is put out.

        1. Thank you, Tom. It seems so strange to see a fire on a wet salt marsh. I’m sure I’ve said this…I’ve been known to repeat 😉 ….The other Gerard farm was around the corner from our Framingham home. We were close to the family. I’m Michael’s uncle still has his farm in Marshfield

          1. It is strange !

            Unless its a full or new moon perigean high tide, then most tides fill the river cutouts within the marsh, but the water level doesn’t get to that top level grass which really becomes dry and brittle. And that stuff burns with the efficiency and speed of pine needles.

  6. Thanks TK.

    It appears an unsettled week ahead for the first full week of May. Hopefully it will minimize the brush fire potential.

    Still waiting to put away my winter coat and knit hat. I did put away my thick sweater just yesterday. It has been awhile since I actually wore it, probably back in March.

    1. Winter coats and hats can be put away up here from July 4th through July 17th. Or so it seems 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

  9. We’ve had full sun since sunrise, almost 6 and 1/2 hrs worth.

    The last 2 hrs, the sun angle has been 50 degrees or higher in the sky. Its nearing its max 62 degree angle now.

    And the temp is struggling mightily to get to 50F. 50F !!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Absolutely pathetic !!

    2. Tom you shouldn’t be living in New England. 🙂

      You should come up here where it is a balmy 55.

      2. Agreed !

        The long term vision is to be in the south Jan – May, I just dont know if I can take a few more years of Spring Cold.

        January, February and a good part of March I can actually handle.

        Its this stuff in the spring that drives me nuts. I’m not looking for 80F, I even get that 70F is not attainable consistently yet.

        But low to mid 50s with upper teen dewpoints at the end of April is just too cool.

        Id gather there aren’t many other locations on the earth at 42 North Latitude, under 100 ft in elevation, that are struggling to get to 55F on a sunny late April day.

  11. The high marsh is usually dominated by Spartina patens or salt marsh hay which dries out quickly in between high tides of the full and new moons like mentioned above.

    1. I was just scrolling down to say this, except I didn’t know the name of the hay. 😉 I was just going to refer to it as tall dry stuff. haha!

  12. CPC 6-10 & 8-14 continue the theme of cool & dry.
    Week 3-4 outlook displays a bit of a warming trend with a return to near to above normal temperatures around my birthday. 😉

      1. I rarely give up on a chance of more snow, but think you are into something, Philip. All hail Boston!!!

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