Saturday Forecast

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7:42AM

DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 16-20)…
Offshore storm gets close enough to cause more wind as it pushes against high pressure over the Northeast. The storm will also toss some clouds onto Cape Cod and Nantucket for part of the day today. High pressure will be more overhead Sunday continuing to provide fair weather. As we have been doing for several days now, we continue to watch for a cold front dropping down from the north and a small attendant wave of low pressure which still looks like it will impact the region more during the Monday night and early Tuesday time frame, but drive a new cool air mass in during Tuesday as the low strengthens offshore while moving away. For Monday itself, it looks like plenty of dry weather for both the Red Sox at Fenway in the late morning and early afternoon and for runners and spectators of the Boston Marathon. The tricky part of the forecast continues to be temperatures, which should be on the mild to warm side but still may drop fairly quickly at some point in the afternoon closer to Boston, as even without the front having passed the area would still be capable of a sea breeze developing. Looking ahead to Wednesday, low pressure moving away and high pressure moving in means cool and breezy but fair.
TODAY: Cloudiness for a while outer Cape Cod and Nantucket. Sunny elsewhere. Highs upper 40s to middle 50s, coolest in coastal areas. Wind N to NE 10-20 MPH with higher gusts up to around 30 MPH, especially coastal areas.
TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s. Wind NE to N diminishing to 5-15 MPH.
SUNDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs in the 50s immediate coast, 60s interior. Wind NE to N 5-15 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s. Wind N to NW 5-15 MPH.
MONDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs upper 50s to lower 60s coast, middle 60s to lower 70s interior. Wind NW to variable 5-15 MPH with coastal seabreezes possible.
MONDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers late. Lows in the 40s.
TUESDAY: Variably cloudy. Chance of rain showers early. Highs in the 50s.
WEDNESDAY: Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s. Highs in the 50s.

DAYS 6-10 (APRIL 21-25)…
Fair and mild April 21. A front in the vicinity and a few waves of low pressure may bring at least cloudiness and probably periods of unsettled weather as early as April 22 but more likely April 23-24. Fair and mild April 25.

DAYS 11-15 (APRIL 26-30)…
The trend for the final several days of the month is a return to mainly dry weather and temperatures not too far from seasonal averages, but this often means cooler at the coast than over the interior during many of the daytimes.

46 thoughts on “Saturday Forecast”

  3. Thanks TK !

    The persistent NE flow has the ocean quite whipped up, even to the point of some minor splash over at high tide this morning, which was 7:45am.

  7. Have to like the 00z GFS and how it has some kind of low pressure milling about north of Puerto Rico and eventually it gets captured and brought northwestward to just east of New England as a big rainstorm.

  8. I have found a link between sports and weather :). If the team loses one or two games, it is over for the season. If April has a few rainy days, it is a month we need to remove from the calendar.

    I knew there was a connection…… 😈

  9. Thank you TK. I so enjoy seeing how my two boys react to the weather. My 10 year left the house this morning with his winter coat on while my 8 year old was in shorts and a t-shirt. 🙂

    2. Amazing how different siblings can be isn’t it? Oldest grandson is 8 also and oldest granddaughter is 7 and getting either to wear anything other than tees and shorts is impossible. My son in law wears shorts all winter. I wear tees so I fully understand.

  10. At the risk of sounding optimistic, I would like to point out how well the Red Sox pitching and bullpen has done the past two games. 🙂

        1. I believe they have a very good team in the field and I think the bullpen may turn out to be good. Starting pitching is the wild card, but the arms have the physical ability. Sometimes I worry about the starting pitchers’ heads. In the end you have to understand how to pitch. Coaching can only take them so far.

  11. Quiet days here on the ole blog. 😀

    52 here, despite the wind, which is quite busy out there as predicted.

  14. I’m at a little league game. It’s 57 but the wind is pretty brutal for sitting out here.

  15. Sat out and watched kids play for several hours. Would be a nice day for a fire but too risky. Wind cool but a sweatshirt did the trick.

  17. I was at a soccer game at the top of a hill in the middle of an exposed area at 9AM. It was like standing in front of a fan on high. Very cool, and very persistent. Big difference between that hill and the parking lot below…

  18. I am out and about it is gorgeous out
    I am in W roxbury. Car reading 60. Bank therm reading 59.

  19. Makes it worse with the dew point low. I have 23 degrees.
    I’m at the Ecotarium in Worcester now. It’s more protected with trees than the baseball field. It’s really nice out of the wind. That should die down a little tomorrow .

  21. Cold, heavy rain hampering rescue efforts in Japan following the earthquakes. Sad situation for many who are trapped underneath the rubble.

    I have tremendous respect for the Japanese. A stoic people who somehow manage to cope with their many natural disasters in such an organized and dignified way. Japan never feels sorry for itself or pleads for external help. They’re amazingly self-reliant. A lesson for all nations in times of natural (and mad-made) calamities.

    2. We watched the Japanese after the horrendous earthquake and tsunami several years ago. There was a water shortage and, rather than hoarding, the people shared. Mac made an atypical comment for him that it would never be like that here. He was proven right when that water main broke….in Newton, I think…and there were fights over bottled water……….when there was plenty of water I surrounding towns.

      You are correct Joshua that we can all learn from Japan.

      1. I played in a Japanese softball league in the Netherlands in the early 1990s. The Japanese set up headquarters for many of their major firms like Nissan and Canon in the Netherlands. And each firm had one or two teams in this amateur league. I was on the `American’ team – the only non-Japanese team in this league. We were actually a motley crew of Americans, Dutch, and Dutch Antillians (where Bogaerts is from). I got to know several Japanese very well. They displayed an unusual mixture of pride, humility, dignity, elegance, and stoicism.

        1. Nice people, but they can be really hard to work for or with. Very very slow in making decisions. The culture is very methodical. Which in and of itself isn’t that bad, but it puts them at a disadvantage. Budgeting is tough too. It takes at least a quarter into the new year to decide if the budget is flat or if they want an increase. American companies tend to be fairly agile and are able to adapt sonewhat easily, there are exceptions of course. But, Japanese companies are slower to chsnge. A lot of Japanese companies have brought in American or European management to help them out. I will say that my Japanese colleagues are some of the nicest people you would ever want to meet. It just takes them forever to make a decision.

          1. And yet their product tends to be superior to ours. Maybe methodical isn’t bad. Although I tend to work full steam ahead so would need to adjust

          2. Mac’s dad sad the French were hardest to work with. He worked for Goodyear International working with the plants that were in trouble.

            1. That’s true too. Friend of mine works for a French company. He says it’s tough. We’re a Japanese company but have a new French CEO. I don’t have warm and fuzzies so far.

              1. And I am 1/2 French so am not meaning it as an insult. He just said different work mindset. I do believe we can learn from other approaches though.

  22. MassBay, the Sox do indeed look good. I’ll soon be eating my words. More crow for me this year. That’s okay. I just want this team to be competitive and relevant. So far, so good.

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