Tuesday August 30 2022 Forecast (7:35AM)

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Down to the last couple days of August, and we’ve had our share of heat this month. We’ll get one more hot day today ahead of an approaching cold front, with high pressure offshore. Humidity will be up as well. The timing of the cold front though is late, and that means that thunderstorms that form well west and northwest of our region won’t get here before day’s end, and we’ll end up with remnant activity in the late night / overnight hours, to around dawn on Wednesday as the front pushes through from west to east. There still can be a few thunderstorms then, but most areas will see showers, or even nothing at all other than just some cloudiness moving through. Wednesday, it will still be a warm day (a bit less hot than today) but the humidity will noticeably drop behind the front. We’ll still have a bit of a trough moving through the Northeast both Wednesday and Thursday, and another frontal boundary still has to come through at some point Thursday. This boundary will have very little moisture to work with so I’m not expecting showers with it, just some clouds, and a transition to a cooler air mass through Friday. High pressure builds in with a great start to the holiday weekend on Saturday.

TODAY: Sun/cloud mix. Highs 86-93. Dew point 65+. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.

TONIGHT: Variably cloudy. A shower or thunderstorm possible mainly I-95 westward late evening / overnight. Patchy fog. Lows 65-72. Dew point 65+. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.

WEDNESDAY: Variably cloudy with a shower or thunderstorm near eastern coastal areas around dawn, otherwise sunshine and passing clouds. Highs 81-88. Dew point falling to 50s. Wind SW shifting to W 5-15 MPH.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 57-64. Dew point falling toward 50. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

THURSDAY: Sun and passing clouds. Highs 76-83. Dew point 50s. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Clear. Lows 53-60. Dew point near 50. Wind N up to 10 MPH.

FRIDAY: Sunny. Highs 73-80. Dew point 50s. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Clear. Lows 52-59. Dew point near 50. Wind calm.

SATURDAY: Sunny. Highs 76-83. Dew point 50s. Wind W up to 10 MPH but coastal sea breezes possible.

DAYS 6-10 (SEPTEMBER 4-8)

High pressure sinks to the south with fair and warm weather for September 4, then a cold front travels through, likely dry, and Canadian high pressure continues with fair weather but with cooler air to finish off the Labor Day weekend on September 5. This high should then sink to the south with fair weather and a warm-up later in the period.

DAYS 11-15 (SEPTEMBER 9-13)

We’ll watch for a frontal boundary crossing with a possible shower around September 9 and possibly some offshore tropical activity later in the period, otherwise high pressure should dominate with mostly dry weather and near to above normal temperatures.

45 thoughts on “Tuesday August 30 2022 Forecast (7:35AM)”

  6. Thanks TK
    Thanks Vicki for posting that tweet from Ryan Hanrahan. The record of 38 from 2020 is safe of days with the temperature of 90 degrees or higher. Were up to 28 days now with 23 of those days happening during the months of July and August.

  7. Before July 18th people were wondering where summer is and I said we still have the rest of July and August. Then BOOM two heat waves one 7 days in the length the other 8 days in length.

  8. Good morning and thank you TK.

    A stinker today. Too bad the front wasn’t approach this afternoon. I am thinking we won’t get a drop of rain here.
    We shall see.

    So far, the tropical that is expected to develop looks to pass OTS well South of here, possibly impacting Bermuda.

  12. Somebody in Boston media just said if the system in the Atlantic becomes a depression it will be named Danielle.

    They don’t name them until they become tropical storms. Oops.

  13. We had a bald eagle circling our home for a while. I love that they are so much more common than they were when I was younger.

    Cell phone only and very high…. Which shows how huge their sing span is.

    You can see his white tail when the sun hits it. Gives me chills

    https://imgur.com/a/8biXHnD

  15. Vicki, thanks for sharing the picture of the Eagle. There are apparently families of Bald Eagles at the Quabbin Reservoir.

  16. We are seeing bald eagles more and more often around our house in Lunenburg. One day my sons and I saw one cruising down Rt 2A about 10′ above the pavement – quite a sight!

      1. So cool.

        If anyone uses FB, I highly recommend

        wildlife of Worcester county and beyond.

        The admin is a Sutton friend and a very talented photographer. There is nothing other than photos wildlife. No nonsense. No politics. I see something I have never hear if very often.

        One small I saw ospreys when in SC. I never knew we had them here.

  17. Looks like Boston has its 90 today.
    That should be it for a while and maybe even be it for the season.

    1. I can see that, with the quickly lowering sun angle and the longer nights increasing the chances the morning lows will have a longer way to make it to 90F during late summer warm-ups.

      At the same time, there is the drought and signals for heat lurking not too far away that, with some mid and long range changes could make a run at us.

      Will be interesting to see.

    1. Aviation enthusiastic here. That is private general aviation sea plane or float plane with engine on top.

          1. We have a aerial photographer who has a float plane. His is a distinctive color. This wasn’t it but he may have a new place.

            Thank you,,Chris, for your information.

  19. Mikhail Gorbachev has died. He was 91. The world is lucky he became the Soviet leader in 1985, and not someone else. Gorbachev was, as Margaret Thatcher said in 1984, “someone you can do business with.” Together with Reagan, Gorbachev presided over an incredible detente, which included a nuclear freeze, de-escalation, and an end to the Cold War. He will be remembered as a person who refused to use force in 1989 to quell pro democracy protests across Eastern Europe. He will also be remembered for trying to open up the Soviet Union (“glasnost”) and restructure (“perestroika”) its failing economy. Ultimately, he unintentionally accelerated the demise of his country as it was dismantled in 1991. One of the more memorable video clips of Gorbachev is of him doing a Pizza Hut ad in 1998. https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1564719570061086735

    May Mikhail rest in peace next to his beloved Raisa (she passed away of cancer many years ago)

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