Saturday Forecast

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6:58AM

DAYS 1-5 (JULY 27-31)
High pressure keeps control of the weather this weekend then gradually relinquishes control of it during the first half of next week, but not completely, as the high will be offshore and combine with a weakening approaching frontal boundary to increase heat, humidity, and the risk of thunderstorms.
Forecast details…
TODAY: Mostly sunny to partly cloudy. Isolated afternoon showers/thunderstorms away from the coast. Highs 83-90. Wind SW up to 10 MPH but coastal sea breezes.
TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 62-69. Wind light SW.
SUNDAY: Mostly sunny to partly cloudy. Highs 85-92. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Remote risk of an isolated shower mainly central MA and southern NH evening. Lows 65-72. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.
MONDAY: Partly sunny. Humid. Isolated afternoon thunderstorms. Highs 86-93. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.
MONDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Humid. Lows 66-73. Wind light SW.
TUESDAY: Partly sunny. Scattered afternoon thunderstorms. Humid. Highs 86-93. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.
TUESDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Humid. Lows 67-74. Wind light SW.
WEDNESDAY: Variably cloudy. Numerous afternoon thunderstorms. Humid. Highs 85-92. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (AUGUST 1-5)
An old frontal boundary washes out over the region and weak high pressure regains control with a decreasing shower and thunderstorm risk and typically warm and moderately humid weather for the first few days of August. A stronger cold front approaches and arrives from the west later in the period with a greater risk of showers/thunderstorms as an upper trough drives into the Great Lakes from Canada.

DAYS 11-15 (AUGUST 6-10)
A stronger cold front crosses and departs the region early in the period with a shot of slightly cooler air to follow it with a risk of showers/storms to start the period, then drier weather, then a return to a more typical August feel comes right behind that with minimal thunderstorm risk.

38 thoughts on “Saturday Forecast”

  1. Thanks TK!

    Red Sox need to take at least 3 of 4. A split at this point is pretty much the same as a Yankee sweep. I guess today’s game is pivotal as the Red Sox do not win very often on ESPN Sunday nights. I would be curious as to their record over the years on those nights. I bet it is a “losing” one.

  3. Thanks TK
    Bad week for the Yankees in terms of starting pitching and they were lucky to get two out of three against the Twins being able to out slug them. This has not been the case the first two games against Boston. The thing I am asking today as a Yankees fan is this just a blip on the radar with the starting pitching or will this trend continue leading to a concern with the starting pitching? The Yankees will still win the AL East but I have been saying all along Boston is going to get one of the wild card spots and if they win that one game and get into a best of five series they could be a thorn in whoever they play in the divisional round.

  7. That heat in Europe is shifting towards the arctic and could shatter records in the arctic and melt 1/4 of existing sea ice. In the mean time 2m temps are around avg to below in the Caribbean

  8. Hmmm. We have a little cell dancing around to our west. I will say getting a warning of lightning 30 miles away caught me by surprise

  11. I’m in Southbridge at the moment Vicki. It just poured torrentially about 10 minutes ago with a few rumbles of thunder!! Didn’t move very fast or far, just far enough east to shut down the downpour.

  12. Dark and thundering in Coventry CT. Several cells popping in the area.

    Wasn’t expecting to see the radar lit up like this today!

    2. It’s not really lit up. Those are the isolated showers/storms mentioned above. 😉

      1. You could see the instability at mid levels during the overnight hours as there were a lot of high based cumulus clouds around with vertical development from late evening right through early this morning.

      2. Hmmm….I could have sworn the wording in the forecast above was a bit different when I checked a few hours ago 🙂

        I will say the storms around me are already dying out. They are pulse type storms. Hasn’t rained a drop here.

        1. It was. I changed it from Hampton Beach during brunch. The original forecast from before 7AM only mentioned showers, and I had intended to include showers/thunder, but always was forecasting isolated activity.

  15. As one cell marches towards my area, it is doing the customary POOFORAMA thing.
    Figures and not surprised. Probably NOT a fat chance in hell it pulses back up
    before arrival. I suspect NOT a single drop here. 🙂

    1. You’re on the wrong side of the sea breeze front. That’s why I forecast the activity away from the coast. 🙂

  16. I was out on the golf course earlier this afternoon and the thunderstorm cell did not go POOFORAMA. I was lucky I was near the parking lot and sat in my car for 45 minutes. Torrential rain and thunder and lightning with that storm. When the storm was over I resumed playing and got a par on a hole I only pared two times prior to today.

  18. Are the cells hanging out more around Worcester due not only the being on the correct
    side of the sea breeze front but also some orographic lifting of that air???

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