Saturday PM Forecast Update

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3:50PM

Forecast update for eastern MA, southern NH, and RI. Another update Sunday morning followed by a full discussion and forecast for the week ahead on Sunday evening…

Have a great weekend and be safe!

SATURDAY AFTERNOON / EVENING (THRU 9PM): Variably cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Any storms may contain gusty winds and hail. Highs 80-85 occurring at mid afternoon will fall back into the 70s but will fall more rapidly to the 60s where any rain occurs. Wind variable 5-15 MPH except strong and gusty near some storms.

SATURDAY NIGHT (AFTER 9PM): Any showers/storms end. Partly cloudy to mostly clear. Patchy fog forming in areas where rain fell. Low near 60. Wind light variable.

SUNDAY: Sunny to partly cloudy. High 80-85 except 70s some coastal areas. Wind NW-N 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY: Cloudy. Showers/thunderstorms likely. Low 62. High 74.

TUESDAY: Partly sunny. Scattered showers. Low 58. High 75.

WEDNESDAY: Partly sunny. Isolated showers. Low 58. High 75.

THURSDAY: Partly cloudy. Low 61. High 74.

FRIDAY: Partly sunny. Isolated PM showers. Low 61. High 81.

SATURDAY: Partly cloudy. Isolated AM showers. Low 64. High 83.

56 thoughts on “Saturday PM Forecast Update”

  1. Thanks, Tk!

    Amazing sky – lots of puffy clouds, dark and lighter w/patches of blue. Just got a crash of thunder – looks like a cell just formed over Maynard, just to the north of Sudbury. The storms seem to be pulsing. Nonetheless, the air does seem dryer than it has lately.

    1. Isn’t the sky incredible. I can hear thunder over your way rainshine. Maybe even further away than you.

  4. Weather channel just sent me a message that there is a severe tstorm warning in Framingham but I am not seeing it anywhere else or even seeing anything on radar that would warrant it. Odd. I think they’ve done this before

    1. That is weird. At this time the only severe thunderstorm warning is for Essex county. There is still a lot of rain to the west. We never got any rain. Right now the sun is out and it started thundering again!

      1. It’s raining here and there was a touch of hail. Lots of loud thunder just east of us now so something has popped up. I haven’t looked at radar. Sounds nasty. Maybe wayland natick?

        1. Waltham newton. A warning just posted. It’s loud even here. I moved to the porch on E side of house so I can at least hear it

  5. Another warning for parts of Suffolk county. These storms are popping up fast. Really pulsing but also evidently moving slow. Not good if there is heavy rain involved. We’re hearing lots of thunder here, now.

  6. No problem hearing thunder here! Very loud. Still no rain but cloudy. Big area of precip. heading towards Worcester. Don’t know if that will strengthen or weaken.

  8. Sun is partially out. No thunder now. But we just got a wind gust, maybe about 35-40 mph out of the westnorthwest. Wind picking up again. Refreshing breeze! Today is one of the reasons I love summer – unpredictable, fast changes and fascinating sky. Other seasons have that, too, but I notice it more in summer. I guess I just love any type of weather! 🙂

    1. Imageee about this being a reason to love summer in NE. Wind strong here too. Very dark south of here. Amazing that the line of storms blew up just east of here. Usually it’s dying down by then. I think the line zapped the one behind it too

  9. Boston area getting hit hard, evidently. Hope everyone stays safe. I love this weather but I don’t like it when people get hurt or there is damage. Winds still gusting here. This weather is caused by cold pool of air, I guess. And I think someone said, (not sure who) in previous post that storms can strengthen as they approach the coast or other things like hills and terrain. Through the trees it looks very dark to the east.

  10. 530 PM UPDATE…
    STORMS ACROSS WESTERN PORTION OF THE CWA HAS DIMINISHED. MAIN FOCUS
    HAS NOW TRANSITIONED TOWARDS THE COAST WHERE SEA BREEZES AND OUT
    FLOW BOUNDARIES ARE COLLIDING AND CREATING SURFACE CONVERGENCE FOR
    THE STORMS. EVOLUTION WILL MAINTAIN ALONG THE SEA BREEZE
    THEMSELVES. EXPECT SMALL HAIL OUT OF THESE STORMS AS COLD CORE
    HAS NOW ENTRENCHED THE REGION…AND SOME GUSTY WINDS. FLOODING IS
    ALSO NOT OUT OF THE QUESTIONS AS AIR MASS IS QUITE MOIST DUE TO
    THE OCEAN. EXPECT STORMS TO CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST 7PM.

  11. That cell in Worcester will go thru some sun before it gets to you rainshine. Wonder if it will strengthen. I hear thunder again. Wind is so loud hard to hear direction. Guessing south

  14. I saw it heading to your area guys. Just the bottom tip. Other than wind all is quiet here.

  16. We have had no thunder and just a few sprinkles here in North Attleboro. Very tall clouds off to the north and east.

  17. Pembroke and marshfield area still in watch box. Coastal you are north of them right ? May be why you are getting more than John

  18. I am north of John, he’s in the town next to me. The Hanson weather bug station was reporting a lot less than what I received and they are about one or two miles south of me. The ba s part of the storm may have passes him to the north and east. And the power just went out here.

  23. Very ominous over water looking west and north across cape cod bay . Just started some heavy showers and quite windy on North side of Dennis !!

  25. I believe I heard on the evening news that with now Debby in the Gulf, this is the first time in history that 4 named storms have formed during the month of June. Normally this many don’t occur until July at the earliest.

    As for Debby, she is forecast to hit Texas later next week…strength and intensity is unknown at this time. At least she has no chance of coming to NE. Irene last year was more than enough for me.

    Another busy tropical season??

    1. Hi Philip. Did you have storms. The past two years we were at the beach for vacation we had to come home because of earl and then Irene. The house we rent has the ocean on one side and the river on the other. I will never wish for a hurricane but like all other storms get excited. This year I wouldn’t mind spending all two weeks without having to come home 🙂

  26. It is an amazing start to the 2012 hurricane season. You had Alberto and Beryl form in May. Chris which became a hurricane so far north and now Debby in the Gulf of Mexico. Debby forecasted to remain a tropical storm.
    A nice day to look forward to tomorrow and then unsettled Sunday night into Monday. As I said earlier the timing of the front does not look conducive for severe weather since it is not coming through during the peak heating of the day. With that said some good dynamics with the front coming through so I do think there is a chance for thunderstorms but only going with a 1 since they should stay below severe levels.

  27. Hope the power is back on the South Shore.

    This a way in NH, we had a vigorous storm about 4pm. My wife and kids, on the road for a ride, experienced pea sized hail. On the campground, we had 15 minutes of torrential rain, the kind that briefly floods camp sites. The lightning-thunder separation got as low as 2 seconds. I’m guessing we received close to .5 inches of rain in 15 minutes. Prior to the storm, the cumulus clouds were amazing.

    Beautiful now, much cooler….thrilled for that ! Fire going, ready for smores 🙂

    1. Wow. That’s quite a storm. I’m happy it cooled of for a fire. Nothing like s’mores when camping. Enjoy Tom

  29. Hope there’s still some heat left for tomorrow, headed to Newport for the day. Night all!

  30. Answers to yesterday’s trivia quiz.

    A hurricane has never been reported exactly at the Equator, but as TK said there have been ones within 1 degree of the Equator.

    As for telling temperature thru insects, one can approximate using a cricket. Count the number of chirps within a 15 second span and then add the number 37 to it. (Or at least I believe that’s the formula.)

    1. Tons of fun Longshot and thanks for posting the quiz. I hadn’t seen TK’s comment. I knew the cricket but as I said guessed at the equator – only reason I picked it is because it isn’t a land mass. Which of course is no reason at all 🙂

  31. Thanks for the reports and observations EVERYONE! I read everything. Fascinating day. As noted by the NWS, the setup allowed perfect convergence and lift as outflow boundaries and seabreeze boundaries collided over eastern MA and allowed the storms to take off there. During the developing to maturing stage of the storms I was on the road in the Woburn / Stoneham area and it was hit pretty hard with torrential rain, some gusty wind, and some fairly close lightning strikes (though the lightning was not super-frequent).

    By evening I was at Hampton Beach NH and observed some fantastic sky.

    1. Thank you TK and thank you to rainshine for explaining all of that to me while it was happening. Is it unusual to see a setup such as that? I feel as if nearly all of the time I watch the storms travel from the west and die down just before reading Framingham. Yesterday, I watched the radar while sitting on the porch on the east side of my house. I could hear the thunder go from totally nonexistent to tremendous cracks and rumbles in what seemed to be only a few miles east of me. And the odd thing was there was no sign of them on the radar until after I heard them for a bit.

      Sorry – that’s a long and confusing question but I just didn’t remember seeing it before. It was fascinating.

      1. It has happened before many times, but not so much “recently” (within the last several years). It’s funny how things tend to run in streaks like that. Perhaps we are starting a new phase of “seabreeze front” thunderstorms. There have been some doozies around here. If the dynamics are right, the storms do not always die out with ocean air near them right away. In this case there was enough moisture and lift of the air just west of and over the boundary that the edge of the ocean air acted like a cold front and just lifted that air right up and “‘kaboom”, literally and figuratively.

        At Hampton Beach, they were in between the big stuff down near Boston and also some good storms that went through the Portsmouth NH area, but they still had puddles when I arrived and there was some departing lightning offshore, and even a partial rainbow later, but the light ocean wind there was replaced by a westerly breeze after sunset as the boundary pushed back across the area, just in time to push the smoke from the 9:30PM fireworks display out over the water. 🙂

        1. Thank you TK and ENJOY THE BEACH!!!!

          I absolutely agree that things happen in waves. We’be been in this house 33 years. For all 33 I have been stationed in the front (west facing) window as a storm approaches 🙂 There was a time that I could count on a storm west of here reaching us. Then there was a time (in the last 8 or so years) when they literally fell apart just before reaching us. I had a lot of discussions with Pete B about that. It was incredibly frustrating. I’d forgotten until you just mentioned it, TK, that they would then often regain strength just east of us during that same period.

          In the past few years there has not been a consistency here at all – that’s literally just here – since consistency is something I look for in everything 🙂

  33. I am going to update just for the forecast now.

    Full discussion/forecast tonight!

    Heading to York Beach Maine for the day. Friends are visiting from Alabama and they have a cottage up there. This is my 4th year doing this (the first was 2009 and you can guess it was in the 60s, cloudy, and a NE wind, and you’d be right on the button). Today? The best of the lot so far. Looking forward to a great beach day.

    Oh, yes when we first got to Hampton and determined the lightning threat was over last evening, we dipped out feet in the water and the water temp was fairly mild. At that point the wind was still coming onshore. Made sense.

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