Briefly Cooler Then Mild Again

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9:09PM

A cold front will amble its way across southern New England tonight and early Tuesday. Showers, a few heavy, will traverse the region during the evening before becoming less numerous overnight. Clouds may hang on over eastern areas of MA and the NH Seacoast region early Tuesday as the front slides offshore. Much drier and cooler air will flow in during the day Tuesday setting us up for a chilly Tuesday night and early Wednesday. But with things moving right along in the atmosphere, high pressure will pass rapidly south of the region and winds will switch from northwest to southwest during the day Wednesday. Temperatures will respond with a recovery during the day. A disturbance passing through the region will bring some cloudiness Wednesday night.  A warm up with fair weather will continue into Thursday ahead of approaching low pressure. I am continuing to favor a more progressive (faster west-to-east movement) solution for late this week with a trough sending an area of rain or showers in on Friday but then pushing it out during Saturday as dry air rushes in from the west around the base of the trough as it lifts toward southeastern Canada. An early look at Sunday-Monday points to fair and mild to warm weather as high pressure builds south of New England.

Forecast for eastern MA, RI, and southern NH…

TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Scattered to numerous showers becoming scattered to isolated late. Patchy fog. Lows 50-55. Wind SW 5-15 MPH with higher gusts shifting to W.

TUESDAY: Any lingering showers over Cape Cod end early with clearing west to east in the morning then mostly sunny to partly cloudy with fair weather clouds popping up in the afternoon. Highs 56-61. Wind W 10-20 MPH with higher gusts.

TUESDAY NIGHT: Clearing. Lows 35-40 inland, 40-45 coast & urban centers. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.

WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny through mid afternoon with a few more clouds late in the day. Highs 60-65. Wind NW 5-15 MPH shifting to SW.

THURSDAY: Mostly sunny. Low 48. High 67.

FRIDAY: Mostly cloudy. Showers likely. Low 52. High 62.

SATURDAY: Partly cloudy. Low 46. High 60.

SUNDAY: Mostly sunny. Low 49. High 68.

MONDAY: Mostly sunny. Low 51. High 76.

83 thoughts on “Briefly Cooler Then Mild Again”

  1. Hehehe, I just thought of a cheesy blog title for you TK “Temperatures wild, and once again mild” Hahahaha

  3. Thanks TK.
    Sunday looks good to start raking the leaves. As I always say let the weather stay nice so I could do that and then after bring on the snow!!!

      1. When I was a kid I loved jumping in the big piles of leaves my dad made as he was raking. As I got older and had to help rake, it became a lot less fun, lol. I always wondered why u couldnt just let the leaves stay there over the winter. He would tell me that as the leaves decompose they make the soil acidic. Grass needs a slightly basic soil to thrive and grow. My dad wouldnt let a flake of snow fly without completely clearing the yard of any leaves. I thought he was crazy but we always had an immaculate lawn come spring 🙂

        1. Great memories!! My dad did the same thing. I have to admit that when younger our lawn was spotless. Not so much any more. We do rake up most. Some remains around the edges which are the gardens. Don’t know if that’s a good thing. Then in spring we indulge in a lawn service to clean the yard thoroughly.

    2. I always prefer to have the leaves gone before the snow flies. Mother Nature is not always so patient, like last year, when it flew before the leaves were even done turning colors!

  5. What is frustrating with raking leaves is when you clear the yard more leaves fall or a big gust wind happens and the neighbors leaves come into the yard.

    1. We have woods behind the house and two huge old elms on the edge of our lawn and our neighbors. Leaves cannot really be removed totally from our yard until spring since so many trees (esp elms) lose them late. I think that’s one reason we gave up trying to remove all. And worse even the trees that lost leaves in October are now holding them until November. The two maples on either side of our house are still totally green.

    2. agreed the neibor across our street keeps the leaves from 5 large oak trees in their yard and it all comes over to my yard. My next door neibor is elderly so i rake her yard every year almost 2 times since leaves from her neighbor goes into her yard. also most of the leaves in the marsh have gone. the leaves have changed in my back yard and the big oaks and other trees across the street and in my front yard are just starting to turn

  6. looks like a great week up until friday ,crisp fall days with sunshine 😀 and i have no classes on wednesday and my english class cancelled today. Much needed sleep time and then biking on wednesday.. im on 4 hours of sleep in the past 2 days. my eyes are falling out of my head.

    1. I’m just guessing that it may be the blocking in Greenland…that, for this GFS run doesnt translate to cold, east coast storminess…but maybe the idea that the north Atlantic blocking would be good to have during the winter ?

  10. Scott, is it because its Halloween? Cant see hour 372, wundermaps errors out right there ironically

  11. I’m thinking some areas in the Baha of California are experiencing some very squally weather right now. Though Paul is weakening, I think it takes a bit of time for the wind to decrease around the center of what just yesterday was a Cat 3 storm. The center is pretty close to the coastline.

    1. The last time we had a snow pack in eastern Canada for mid October was 2009, which had a winter with very negative NAO, which was so strong most of the storms went south of us.
      The winter of ’09-’10 had a moderate El Nino, and this winter may have a weak El Nino.
      We shall see what happens in the coming months.

  14. Dick Albert and Providence meteorologist Steve Cascione (Ch. 6) are starting a new online forum to discuss weather SkyWatchers.me in the coming weeks by the end of the year.

    1. I grew watching Dick. Still watch 5, as I think its the best weather team. Please let me know when it starts.

  16. Felt it here as well in Billerica. It was about 3 or 4 seconds. Does anyone know where the epicenter was. I was in my room and i thought the ferness might have had a problem.

  18. That earthquake was TERRIFYING. My whole desk shook and at first I thought it was my cats running faster than the speed of light through my house. Then I’m like…oh no…what the heck is happening AHHHHH! It made an awful rattling noise! First time I ever experienced that!

  20. That was a good ride for sure. I have felt 5 earthquakes in my lifetime and that was probably the strongest, once I figured out it wasn’t my moving chair. 😛

    2. I have to say that it did scare the heck out of me. My windows were rattling so bad I moved away from them out of pure fear. Crazy!

      1. Same here. It scared my grandson. We felt the one summer before last from VA. We were in Humarock then. That was a longer one but not as strong

  23. Check ur phones. We have a dial tone but when we dial a number get a message that the call can’t be completed. Could be the lines jammed. It’s kind of like a snowstorm in the south.

    John. First thing I said was our TVs better not be out. Although if I couldn’t see the debate I’m sure I’d sleep better

    1. The phone difficulty is common, given everybody was calling police, relatives, etc., asking or telling. I had a couple friends try to call me that had trouble getting through. That’ll ease up soon if it hasn’t already.

  25. Felt it for 4 to 6 seconds in Sherborn, MA – thought it was a large gust of wind. The house was creaking (1950’s construction) like during a strong nor’easter.

    1. Yup, we felt it in Milton–although I was banging coffee out of the filter, so at first, my hubby thought it was me (I’m not that strong….)

  28. My husband first noticed it – he said “did you hear that?” I didn’t but then I did. Sounded like a deep rumbling here in Sudbury. I said it was prob’ly a truck. He said prob’ly an earthquake. He was right. Makes you think. With the weather, with storms, you get some kind of warning, some kind of idea something might be coming. You can’t really predict an earthquake.

      2. I don’t know. I never heard of any aftershocks after earthquakes in New England – maybe there have been, just very small.

      4. the type of rock here has really little give so it takes alot of energy to just make the earth shake once. I dought that we will have an after shock. the rocks around here are really dense much denser than those out west.

  29. I remember back in maybe 1985 or so, there was an earthquake around Quebec. We were over my parent’s apt. in Framingham which was on the 4th floor. That’s the worse I ever felt. Everything shook. Our home is on the first floor here but I wonder if we were on a higher floor if we would have felt it more.

  30. The earthquake was centered in interior York County ME.

    Here in Boston (Dorchester) I barely felt it. Until Vicki mentioned it I thought it was just my imagination. My bet is it was felt much more to the north and east.

    1. Interesting Hadi…considering the center was felt in Boston 85 miles away.

      Having said that, as I said earlier, I barely felt it.

      Did anyone on the south shore or the Cape feel anything?

      1. Yes !!! In my room, in the middle of parent-teacher conferences. We are on the second floor and the floor trembled. Twice…it stopped the conversation for a few seconds.

          1. Indeed ! And since we’ve been working on decimals, I can tie the strength of the quake to the curriculum. 🙂

  32. There was a minor quake in the 1990s in western MA maybe. No one felt it but the horses all,started running around the field like crazy. We didnt know why until later.

  33. There was a pretty strong earthquake in upstate New York back in the late 1990’s IIRC. It occured early on a Saturday morning. I did feel it here in Boston barely. I was still in bed and heard rumbling. I don’t remember exactly what season but I think it was either late spring or summer. I am fairly positive that it wasn’t in the dead of winter though.

    1. Also IIRC it was centered in a fairly remote section of upstate New York so damage overall was minimal but some local roads did have somewhat significant damage.

  34. It is interesting…..today, the nearly new moon is a perigee, so, as far as the earth-moon system, the moon is exerting a stronger pull on the earth. One physical way to see this is in the extreme cycle of very low, low tides and very high, high tides going on at the coastline this week. I know I’ve seen articles that believe there is a connection between supermoons and earthquakes.

  35. Felt in Newton. Sounded like people walking around upstairs. I thought “that’s not possible, there’s nobody up there……I thought?”

    1. Well that would be enough to scare the daylights out of me………..people walking around where there are none – ugh

  36. At the time of the quake I was in my room on the second floor and just felt a little something. Stupid question but…I wonder would I have felt much more if I had been in my basement for instance?

    I also wonder…would those in the subway on the MBTA feel a lot compared to those on the surface?

  37. Of course that earthquake in August 2011 5.8 in Mineral. VA that was felt up here in parts of SNE.

      1. We felt it in Humarock – it lasted much, much longer than this one but of course wasn’t as strongly felt.

        What amazes me is how much you feel from one that they now say was 4.0 and centered as far away as Maine. I can’t being to imagine what a full blown quake feels like when you are nearly on top of the fault. However, I seem to remember reading that it is the structure of the earth below us that causes it to travel as far as it did. I may have made that up 🙂

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