Sunday February 20 2022 Forecast (8:47AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (FEBRUARY 20-24)

High pressure slides south of our region today and Monday with two nice days, the colder of the two being today (especially this morning) and a milder day for Monday (Presidents Day). Tuesday, low pressure will cut northeastward across the Great Lakes and down the St. Lawrence Valley or across far northern New England, putting us on the warm side, so we’ll see rainfall here. Earlier I thought we may have to deal with a period of freezing rain somewhere inland for the start of this, but right now I think the timing of the rain’s arrival will be late enough Tuesday morning so that we won’t see this take place. A cold front trailing the departing low will swing through here Wednesday and we’ll turn windy and drier, although it will be mild initially before temperatures start to go down. This sets up a fair and seasonably cold day Thursday as high pressure sits over southern Canada but noses into the northeastern US as well.

TODAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 32-39. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 21-28. Wind WSW up to 10 MPH.

MONDAY (PRESIDENTS DAY): Partly sunny. Highs 46-53. Wind SW 10-20 MPH.

MONDAY NIGHT: Clouding over. Lows 30-37. Wind SE 5-15 MPH.

TUESDAY: Cloudy. Periods of rain late morning on. Highs 40-47. Wind E 5-15 MPH.

TUESDAY NIGHT: Cloudy. Rain likely Areas of fog. Temperatures steady 40-47. Wind SE 5-15 MPH.

WEDNESDAY: Cloudy start, then a sun/cloud mix. Highs 50-57 by midday, then turning cooler. Wind S shifting to W increasing to 10-20 MPH.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Clear. Lows 18-25. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.

THURSDAY: Sunny. Highs 30-37. Wind N up to 10 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (FEBRUARY 25 – MARCH 1)

Storm threat February 25, favoring snow/sleet over rain. Fair, seasonably cold weekend February 26-27. Storm threat February 28 and/or March 1.

DAYS 11-15 (MARCH 2-6)

Temperatures below normal, precipitation near to above normal with additional wintry precipitation possible.

44 thoughts on “Sunday February 20 2022 Forecast (8:47AM)”

  4. Good morning and thank you TK .

    Down to 15 this morning. No big deal.

    Models have had Friday system for some time. Trend serms to be more frozen, than not . Time will yell. Latest 6z gfs has about 10 inches for Boston.

    That would put Boston over its seasonal average, which clearly would be more than expected before the season started.

  6. The Irish, British, and Dutch are still cleaning up the mess left behind from Eunice. Well, as is often the case with these storms, they tend to come one after another for a while. A few get names. Most do not. The latest storm, which I don’t think has a name, is approaching the Netherlands right now. It will be a gale to severe gale along the coast (`just’ a gale inland), with wind gusts expected of 70mph to 75mph.

    Unlike here, in between areas of low pressure there is no sun. In fact, it rained hard much of yesterday in the Netherlands.

    Frankly, the weather there in winter is truly dismal. This is why you’ll hear me say so often how blessed we are to have so many sunny days in winter. It’s NOT a given, folks. The Netherlands catches periodic glimpses of the sun between November and March, but that’s usually about it. It’s gray, gray, and a lot more gray.

  8. Not only is this an awesome time lapse of the snow squall going through the Back Bay area of Boston, but nearly equally interesting is watching the flow of traffic change from before the squall to after. Note that the speed of the time lapse changes near the end, but you can tell before that that the volume is up and speed is down as people had to come to a near stop during it and it takes a while to sort out after. Also note the treatment vehicles moving along the pike with a big backup behind them.

    https://twitter.com/sarahwroblewski/status/1495203962416418828?s=21&fbclid=IwAR0jtoUBHJKPtgKLgJZ5sYxm4kKgxur_a_rt7wsj87ONb9Zcm3bjuLMIXwY

  11. Guess the source of today’s stupidest weather-related headline:
    “Millions of Americans will be forced into an involuntary polar plunge this week”

    A) CNN
    B) The Weather Channel
    C) BBC
    D) The Onion
    E) Fox News

    1. I saw that and had a good chuckle and did not click on it,
      so I did not take note of the source. I really don’t know the source, but I am going to guess:

      B. The Weather Channel

    2. I’m tempted to say The Onion only because I’d hope they actually took that concept and ran with it in their satire with some really funny photos. But I sadly bet it’s “real” news from an actual news source, so I’ll go with TWC, as they may as well be run by a class of 7th graders with hormone storms.

    1. .1 is all they managed yesterday? Wow!

      We had a good 1/2 inch here in JP perhaps a tad under, but way more than .1

        1. Does that mean Boston won’t be able to maintain snow for the next event? A changeover scenario would certainly put Worcester ahead, as TK has been hinting.

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  17. The answer to the “stupidest headline” question above is (A), CNN:
    https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/20/weather/weather-central-us-cold-snap-snow-storm/index.html

    The article and associated video are by a CNN meteorologist. She doesn’t use the phrase given as the headline in either. The closest she comes is “Many cities will see a sharp polar plunge in a 48-hour span.” I suppose CNN has a large staff of Very Clever People devoted to coming up with such headlines to get people to click.

    3. Not surprised either. TWC leads the pack in drama headlines with CNN nearly a photo finish for 2nd. The others lag.

        1. I haven’t seen too many headlines from either of those sources but I tend to get drama from CNN and “what are you trying to say?” from Fox. 😉 Most of the time I don’t pay attention to sources I don’t like. 😉 And they are equally disliked by yours truly. 😀

    4. Not long after I posted the quiz, me wife said, “You have to look at the CNN front page. You won’t believe the headline there.” She was a little surprised when I guessed what she was referring to and showed her what I had already posted here!

  18. Sun angle is getting better for the daily shore walk. Went early this AM and just couldn’t do it with single digit wind chill #s. Went back at 12:30 PM and it was different especially with that sun hitting me. Actually not sure of sun angle today … but thinking mid 30’s.

  19. A wayyyyy off weather question. Does anyone know if two different cars in MA have the same license tag numbers? If different plate type maybe?

      1. I’m reading that MA did issue the same number but for different type plates. RI also. They may have stopped this practice.

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