Friday Forecast

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7:04AM

DAYS 1-5 (JUNE 14-18)
Upper level low pressure moves across the region today, and while we’ll have a drying westerly wind, the sun’s heating of the ground, which has residual moisture left from yesterday’s rainfall, will trigger clouds to form, and with the help of a passing impulse of energy, perhaps some passing showers any time from the middle of the day to late afternoon. Dry, more stable air overtakes the region tonight and Saturday as high pressure moves in. But a cold front will approach, enter, then slow down in the region Sunday, then hang around into early next week, when we will begin several days of more humid weather with opportunities for showers and thunderstorms.
Forecast details…
TODAY: Partly sunny. Slight risk of a passing shower. Highs 67-74. Wind W 10-20 MPH.
TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 48-53 interior valleys, 53-58 elsewhere. Wind light NW.
SATURDAY: Mostly sunny to partly cloudy. Highs 75-82. Wind WSW 5-15 MPH.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 57-64. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.
SUNDAY: Variably cloudy. Scattered showers. Isolated thunderstorms. More humid. Highs 76-83, cooler coastal areas. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers/thunderstorms. Patchy fog. Humid. Lows 60-67. Wind light variable.
MONDAY: Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers/thunderstorms. Humid. Highs 72-79. Wind light variable.
MONDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers/thunderstorms. Humid. Lows 60-67. Wind light variable.
TUESDAY: Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers/thunderstorms. Humid. Highs 73-80. Wind light variable.

DAYS 6-10 (JUNE 19-23)
Shower/thunderstorm threat lingers but decreases early in the period with a dissipating frontal boundary nearby, and high pressure gradually takes over for a drying trend. Temperatures near to slightly above normal overall.

DAYS 11-15 (JUNE 24-28)
Look for a mainly west to east (zonal) flow with a couple opportunities for showers/thunderstorms, but fair weather the majority of the time, and a tendency for the jet stream to lift north in response to building heat over the interior Southeast and Midwest, putting temperatures to mostly above normal, but not excessively hot.

31 thoughts on “Friday Forecast”

  3. Good morning and thank you TK.

    A beautiful morning yet again, although the aforementioned clouds are forming….

      1. Thank you, JPD. I mentioned this to my nonhorsey daughter yesterday. I am glad you reminded me to mention to horsey daughter too.

  8. According to NBC 10 in-house, Boston has a 15% chance of a shower today with a higher chance N/W and even less south to the Cape.

  9. in terms of the flight delays with low cloud deck. There were some new rules put in place this year as well as less people watching the air working the airports due to budgets. There has also been some issues with some of the tech on some of the newer planes making it harder to drive in bad weather. This is from a friend who works for Logan.

    1. Makes perfect sense. Thanks, Matt. It makes me a bit sad I don’t have my sister in law to ask any more.

      1. Yes, thanks Matt. Better safe than sorry. I remember back in summer 1989 a flight delayed due to low clouds but iirc the delay wasn’t all that long. I don’t recall having to make other arrangements or anything like that. My father and I took off from Logan eventually with no issues.

    2. Thanks for the info. I find it more disturbing that the “new tech” is taking us a step backwards.

      There’s already been a step back aspect of weather info due to some apps and media. We can do better.

  10. I am pleasantly amazed that dewpoints are only 49-55F considering a regionwide gusty southwest wind given climatology heading into summer.

    1. The dew points were expected to be low today. Wind direction is not really the full determining factor. It’s air mass. This air mass originated in Canada.

  11. I’ve heard a number of comments today : “looks like next weeks washed,” or “we’re not gonna see any sun for more than a week….” that’s from the apps .

    1. So basically the same thing as every other week.

      Yeah, about 10 or 11 days ago they said the same thing about June 8 & 9. That worked out GREAT! 😉

    2. I hear positive comments with a few negative tossed in. I don’t bother listening to the negative. They serve absolutely no purpose.

    3. What’s funnier is that a fair amount of people will obsess about something predicted on an app days in advance that they will actually miss out on enjoying the nice day that’s going on right outside their window………..

  12. A lot of flip-flopping with model runs about Sunday on TV today. Better to just use the phrase “scattered showers” since we cannot time scattered showers that will not form UNTIL Sunday. 😉

    1. There was a segment on npr today by Neil someone from NOAA on upgrading the amerivsn model.

      1. I saw one on the news with Kerry Sanders. I’m looking forward to monitoring the performance of the model. I have my doubts it will totally match the ECMWF since that just got upgraded too, but if nothing else it will push our developers even more.

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