Friday Forecast

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7:34AM

DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 24-28)
Cool and wet pattern. That’s what we have. The short and simple of it is that a storm system brings rain to the region today, a break comes Saturday, and another storm arrives during Sunday and lasts into Monday with more wet weather, but this one comes along with enough cold air that the higher elevations of interior locations may end up seeing some snow before that one moves out of the area by Monday night. Spring snow never lasts long, should any accumulate, which is possible, but seeing it at this point in April, while certainly not unheard of, is rather rare. Another break comes on Tuesday, but don’t get used to that either…
TODAY: Cloudy. Periods of rain, steadiest south of I-90, more intermittent to the north. Highs 45-52. Wind NE 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.
TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy coast. Partly cloudy inland. Lows 38-45. Wind NE 5-15 MPH.
SATURDAY: Coastal clouds linger, more sunshine inland. Highs 48-55 coast, 55-62 inland. Wind E 5-15 MPH.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Clouding over. Lows 38-45. Wind E up to 10 MPH.
SUNDAY: Cloudy. Rain arriving southwest to northeast midday and afternoon. Highs 43-50. Wind E-NE 10-20 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Cloudy. Periods of rain, may mix with sleet or snow higher interior higher elevations. Lows 33-40. Wind NE 10-20 MPH.
MONDAY: Cloudy. Periods of rain, may mix with snow higher elevations of interior locations. Highs 38-45. Wind NE 10-20 MPH, higher gusts.
MONDAY NIGHT: Cloudy evening with lingering rain/drizzle, mix higher elevations interior locations. Lows 32-39. Wind NE-N 10-20 MPH.
TUESDAY: Partly sunny. Highs 48-55, coolest coast. Wind variable 5-15 MPH with sea breezes.

DAYS 6-10 (APRIL 29-MAY 3)
Cool and wet pattern continues with next storm system bringing a rain threat April 29-30, and once again may need to watch interior higher elevations for mix. Somewhat drier weather to start May but temperatures remain below normal.

DAYS 11-15 (MAY 4-8)
Temperatures remaining below normal overall, but a couple milder days are possible with weaker weather systems, still with a couple minor rainfall events possible.

24 thoughts on “Friday Forecast”

  8. Thanks TK
    The latest NAM run would be way too high during winter as the NAM always seems to go bonkers when it comes to snowfall.

  11. 12z EURO showing wintry precipitation for the higher elevations of SNE Sunday night into Monday.

  12. 18Z NAM takes the Sunday night system farther North, pushing any snow shield correspondingly farther North. Does NOT look like any snow in SNE on this run.
    And remember, this is the 18Z run.

  13. Well we are fast coming to a meteorological milestone moment in New England … Barry’s last forecast … Sunday at 11 PM. Unbelievable!

    2. This is about 2 years later than he originally planned to retired. I will miss him on air, but hoping to stay in touch as we have periodically for decades now. Great guy!

      1. Kinda sad Barry’s final broadcast won’t be under “normal” circumstances inside the studio. I bet he never envisioned it taking place inside his home during a major pandemic 42 years ago. 🙁

        A long, wonderful career though! Thanks Barry! 🙂

  14. When a meteorologist retires and is no longer under contract from a major market station, do you think they would feel more at Liberty to comment and post on a great blog such as this? If so I hope Barry would come on and contribute to the blog under any alias he chooses. WxWatcher you post regularly, are there any rules that you have to abide to in regards to posting on blogs such as this?

    1. Not really, and I’m welcome to use my real name, though like most here I choose an alias. It’s not really a secret though 🙂

      The main restriction (which should be obvious and would apply to any agency/company) is no release of internal decisions before they are public. Not sure why anyone would be stupid enough to try to pull that off… but evidently there are one or two who are, as evidenced by a fairly high profile debacle on social media just a few days ago about “the SPC high risk that wasn’t”…

      I wish we had a blog like this down here though! There are some weather enthusiast forums, but the quality of discourse is generally not great and I avoid them. WHW is a unique gem.

      1. As always you make great sense. There are some “spats” but we are a family and families have them. So we move forward.

        1. Agree with you, Vicki.

          And, WxWatcher, your posts are fantastic!

          By the way, I like everyone on WHW. That includes people with different views on climate change than mine, different political perspectives, different personalities. As the French say, “vive la difference.”

          What’s special about WHW is we’re all different in terms of background, level of meteorological knowledge, love or hatred of snow and cold, age, political viewpoints, etc …

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