7:36AM
DAYS 1-5 (MARCH 10-14)
A back-door cold front sneaked down the coast to about Boston overnight, chilling it off temporarily, but there is not a lot of push to keep it going, so we’ll warm it up one more time today before a cold front passes through tonight and returns reality to the region for the remainder of the week. Actually we do have a bit of a weather concern in what’s been an easy pattern through the winter. The first 3 months (to-date) of 2020 are running near a 3 inch precipitation deficit, and with no snowcover and no significant precipitation producers in the pipeline, both pollen and fire danger will be elevated, so we’ll have to keep an eye on that. Tonight’s cold front will produce limited rain showers, and a slightly more energetic system will produce a more widespread but short-lived rain event Friday, the benefit of which will be negated rather quickly when dry and breezy weather returns by the weekend.
TODAY: Partly sunny to mostly cloudy. Highs 52-59 South Coast, 60-67 elsewhere. Wind SW 10-20 MPH.
TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with rain showers. Lows 45-52. Wind SW 5-15 MPH shifting to W.
WEDNESDAY: Partly sunny. Highs 52-59. Wind W 10-20 MPH.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Cloudy with showers of rain likely, possibly mixed with snow southern NH. Lows 32-39. Wind N 5-15 MPH.
THURSDAY: Mostly cloudy. Highs 40-47. Wind variable 5-15 MPH.
THURSDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 30-37. Wind light variable.
FRIDAY: Clouding over. Rain likely in the afternoon. Highs 43-50. Wind SE up to 10 MPH.
FRIDAY NIGHT: Cloudy with a chance of rain early, then clearing. Lows 32-39. Wind W 10-20 MPH.
SATURDAY: Partly cloudy. Highs 42-49. Wind W 15-25 MPH.
DAYS 6-10 (MARCH 15-19)
High pressure moves in with fair, chilly, but tranquil weather March 15-16. A weak low pressure system may bring unsettled weather March 17. High pressure then moves back in with fair, cooler weather March 18 and a warm-up to quickly follow at the end of the period, based on current timing. If you are interested in which medium range model I am closer to for timing in this period, it’s the ECMWF (European).
DAYS 11-15 (MARCH 20-24)
A boundary nearby makes for even more uncertainly in an already normally uncertain beyond-10-day forecast. We’ll have to watch for a quick turn to cold and still cannot rule out something frozen falling from the sky sometime during this period.