Tuesday Forecast

11:24AM

To all of you who celebrate, I wish you a Merry Christmas!

DAYS 1-5 (DECEMBER 25-29)
High pressure builds in for a bright and seasonably chilly Christmas Day and continues to dominate the weather through the middle of the week. A weak trough moving north to south across the region from eastern Canada on Wednesday may bring a few clouds to region. The next low pressure system will travel southwest to northeast from the Upper Midwest to southeastern Canada on Friday, a track putting New England on the warm side, and a warm front / cold front combo will bring wet weather at that time. There could be just enough cold air around at the start of the precipitation early Friday, that some areas, especially interior and higher elevations, see some snow and/or ice, but this should not be long-lasting and its impact, if it occurs, will be determined by timing. By Saturday, this system will be departing and we’ll have a blustery and drier day that starts mild and ends colder.
Forecast details…
TODAY: Sunny. Highs 33-40. Wind NW 10-20 MPH with a few higher gusts.
TONIGHT: Clear. Lows 13-20. Wind NW 5-15 MPH with a few higher gusts.
WEDNESDAY: Sun and passing clouds. Highs 33-40. Wind N 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy evening. Clear overnight. Lows 11-18. Wind light N.
THURSDAY: Sunshine and high clouds. Highs 33-40. Wind light variable.
FRIDAY: Overcast. Snow and sleet changing to rain morning-midday. Rain showers likely afternoon-evening. Lows in the 20s. Highs in the 40s.
SATURDAY: Sun/cloud mix. Windy. Chance of a rain shower morning. Chance of a snow shower late-day. Temperatures rise to lower 50s early then fall through the 40s.

DAYS 6-10 (DECEMBER 30-JANUARY 3)
A clipper passing south of the region December 30 may be close enough to bring snow to at least southern areas. Dry and chilly December 31. Milder with episodes of rain January 1-3 as a boundary sets up over the region and areas of low pressure move along it.

DAYS 11-15 (JANUARY 4-8)
Colder with a risk of mix/snow early period and again at the end of the period with dry weather in between.

14 thoughts on “Tuesday Forecast”

  1. At 3 days out I will chance a first guess on snow/sleet accumulation and that is a coating to 1 inch along the coast except nothing over Cape Cod and the South Coast, and 1-3 inches over the interior, before it flips to rain. This is also going to be different in that it won’t be a prolific precipitation producer. We’re done with those for now.

  2. Figured I would share this here: for anyone willing to drive that wants a fun time – head to Pembroke. Go to Lilah Way and then to Ingham Way. Both places have you tune into a radio station and the lights are in sync. Lilah Way is a bunch of houses with many inflatables: https://youtu.be/WUaTqNk0GQ0 (terrible quality video from me lol)

    And ingham way has these funny and amazing lights outside of the house (seriously my video will do it no justice but they have a tree that does animations of some of the stuff mentioned in the songs): https://youtu.be/c_kti3nAy6A

  3. According to Harvey, some models now have snow for Sunday.

    Also I see that we are back to bad habits with rain for New Year’s Day…Tuesday.

    1. The medium range models have hinted at a cold system in the December 29-January 1 period for a while and I’ve been focusing on the 30th and 31st for a potential. I do think we have 2 systems, a light hit or near-miss on Dec 30 and a milder system with a light rain event on January 1.

      We’re all set with prolific producers for a while.

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