Saturday Forecast

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9:34AM

DAYS 1-5 (DECEMBER 22-26)
The dry-out process begins today, but not until a cold front sweeps eastward across the region this morning and very early afternoon with thin band of rain showers and trailed by a few additional ones. The mild air in place will be replaced by seasonable cold tonight and Sunday, along with dry weather. A small clipper low pressure system will bring some light snow/rain (depending on location) for the morning hours of Monday and then some snow showers lingering during the afternoon adding some festive flakes to the Christmas Eve atmosphere. Seasonably cold and dry weather is then expected for Christmas Day Tuesday and Wednesday as well as high pressure builds in.
Forecast details…
TODAY: Mostly cloudy through midday with a line of rain showers moving west to east across the region mid morning through very early afternoon and one or two additional rain showers possible just behind it. Becoming partly sunny by mid afternoon. Temperatures steady 48-55 morning, falling through the 40s afternoon. Wind SW shifting to W 15-25 MPH with higher gusts possible.
TONIGHT: Clearing. Lows 28-35. Wind WNW 15-25 MPH evening, diminishing overnight.
SUNDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 35-42. Wind W 5-15 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Increasing clouds. Lows 25-32. Wind light variable.
MONDAY (CHRISTMAS EVE): Cloudy morning with a period of snow accumulating a coating to 1 inch except rain that may mix with snow South Coast. Variably cloudy afternoon with a chance of snow showers, favoring southern NH and eastern MA. Highs 35-42. Wind variable 5-15 MPH morning, N 10-20 MPH afternoon.
TUESDAY (CHRISTMAS DAY): Mostly sunny. Lows from the upper 10s to middle 20s. Highs in the 30s.
WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny. Lows in the 10s. Highs in the 30s.

DAYS 6-10 (DECEMBER 27-31)
High pressure hangs on with fair/cold weather December 27 before a west-to-east moving low pressure system brings mix/rain December 28. Clearing, breezy, seasonably cold December 29. Currently staying with a dry forecast for December 30-31 but a boundary not far south of the region may change that and allow a wave of low pressure to get close enough for a period of snow/mix. Will keep an eye on this.

DAYS 11-15 (JANUARY 1-5)
A boundary nearby may be the focus for a string of low pressure areas to bring unsettled weather in the form of several periods of precipitation of several varieties to start off the new year.

52 thoughts on “Saturday Forecast”

  5. Just watch the 29th and 30th are impacted by a storm the days of family party, then friend party on sunday. Last year’s party got to big lol.

  8. I just hope that next Friday 28th will be the LAST installment of these prolific rain events for awhile and get in a few snowy ones for a change. I will say that Logan “only” received 0.61 inch yesterday.

  9. Christmas quiz

    In a Christmas song what bird has gone away and what bird is here to stay? What is the name of the song?

  10. Thanks TK.

    2.31” total here in Coventry, CT and just shy of 4” of rain on the month. Well on our way towards our 7th straight month of 5”+ rain totals.

    Temp is dropping like a rock as well…down to 34 degrees now and with the wind, sure feels like winter again.

    1. 4.36 for month to date in South Sutton. I’m still pretending we don’t have a sink hole in our front yard 🙂

  11. Nice run so far on the 12z GFS. Snow events on New Years Eve and Jan 3 with systems passing to our south. We will need to worry more about suppression with those if anything.

    2. FV3-GFS is totally and completely different! So what else is new.
      Translation: We haven’t a freakin clue as to what will happen.

  12. Canada gets cold briefly and pacific flow boots it out. No sustained real cold on the horizon. Fine with me. Plenty of winter to go.

  13. FV3 is a waste of time. I’ve stopped looking at it until they actually fix it and roll it out.

  15. 1.82 inches from this last rain maker at my house in Sturbridge.
    In a delayed reply to your question from yesterday Vicki. Yes I do have a weather station. It is a Davis vantage pro 2 in which my data is uploaded to both Davis’s weather link and also wunderground.

  16. Greetings to all and thank you as always, TK:

    Here’s a quick trivia quiz while you finish up (or start!!!) your holiday preparations:

    Massachusetts’ record maximum annual precipitation is:

    a) 66.46″
    b) 69.65″
    c) 76.49″
    d) 84.26″

    Bonus point: In what year and what town was it set?

    1. wild guess: d.
      Town:????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

      I have a wise-ass name in mind, but I’ll go with:

      North Adams

      1. Thinking more, it was probably 1938 with the big hurricane contributing. I saw along the Deerfield River that the water
        was extremely high somewhere between Charlemont and
        Florida.

      1. But were prolific rain events every Friday expected too? Even Mike Waunkum couldn’t resist remarking on that during his evening newscast. 😉

        1. We haven’t had prolific rain events every Friday. We’ve had a couple storms that happened to occur on Fridays. Just like we had a stretch of wet Tuesdays during autumn.

  19. Mass Bay…you are correct. Gone away is the blue bird. Here to stay is the new bird. Must be a metaphor for outwith the old and in with the new because my blue birds are here all year. Song is winter womderland

        1. Actually this is the “cold moon”. In fact, there was no “snow moon” at all in 2018. the next “snow moon” is 2-19-2019.

  21. JPD. Just finished Christmas candle. It took me a bit to get into it but I’m really glad I watched. Thank you for recommending it

  22. Early this morning there was Venus in the east and the full moon setting in the west.
    Both breathtaking. 🙂
    Venus has been hanging around a lot lately. Haven’t seen Mars in awhile. I hope it still exists. 😉

    1. It suddenly just occurred to me. Are Mars and Venus the only planets visible to the naked eye here on Earth?

      1. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are often clearly visible without help, though Mercury is very close to the horizon and takes some effort to find. These planets have times when they are too close to the sun to be visible.

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