Thursday March 6 2025 Forecast (6:32AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (MARCH 6-10)

Mild air during the day today will be replaced by colder air tonight as a result of a cold frontal passage. The front will produce a few additional rain showers as it moves across the region, and behind it a few snow showers can occur tonight as the cold air arrives and becomes established, along with increasingly windy conditions. The windy, colder weather will persist through Friday, largely a dry day but with a slight chance of a passing snow flurry. The winds on Friday can be powerful enough to lead to scattered damage and power outages. Another disturbance passing by the region on Saturday can produce an additional light snow shower or two, and it will be chilly but not as windy. On Sunday, it stays chilly but fair as low pressure passes far to the south of our region. A clipper low will dive out of Canada and across the Great Lakes and New York State to New England to give some rain and snow showers to our region on Monday.

TODAY: Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers / brief downpours through early afternoon. Highs 52-59. Wind SW 5-15 MPH shifting to NW late-day.

TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Possible rain/mix showers early, snow showers overnight. Black ice formation on untreated surfaces. Lows 23-30. Wind NW increasing to 15-25 MPH with gusts above 30 MPH.

FRIDAY: Partly sunny. A passing snow flurry possible mainly morning. Highs 35-42. Wind NW 15-25 MPH, gusts 35-50 MPH and as high as 50-60 MPH in higher elevations and a few open coastal areas.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 18-25. Wind NW 10-20 MPH, gusts 30+ MPH.

SATURDAY: Partly sunny. A possible snow shower. Highs 30-37. Wind W 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 18-25. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

SUNDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 37-44. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Variably cloudy. Lows 20-27. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY: Variably cloudy. Chance of snow showers except rain or snow showers south of I-90. Highs 35-42. Wind variable 5-15 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (MARCH 11-15)

Two disturbances to watch for precipitation potentials during this period. Temperatures near to below normal.

DAYS 11-15 (MARCH 16-20)

Active pattern with variable temperatures – additional unsettled weather chances leading up to the vernal equinox on March 20.

61 thoughts on “Thursday March 6 2025 Forecast (6:32AM)”

  7. Thanks TK.
    It was a deluge last night in Coventry. Ended up with 1.79” in the rain gauge.

  11. From a friend / observer…

    Day 59 of at least 2 inches snowcover at Fitchburg. Lawn last visible on January 10.

    1. I saw a post from a friend a bit ago from lunenburg. They had a good amount left.

      Our last bit including my deck melted yesterday

      Now to collect some things that blew off the deck before our next wind event. Although, wind seems to be the norm here

    1. Sure, why not. Who needs a stinken National Seashore beach anyway!

      We have a LUNATIC in charge!!!!!! sorry, make that 2!

      1. 3

        I saw this comment yesterday

        you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

  14. EFFECTIVE TOMORROW…

    I am creating a separate page for people who want to discuss NOAA staffing.

    This will be much like the separate covid page I created in 2020 to get that discussion out of the main blog comments for people who only come here for weather, whether they comment or not.

    I will go over some specific guidelines later today or include them with tomorrow’s post.

    Thanks all! 🙂

  15. Thanks, TK…

    Quite foggy in the last couple hours here in Middleboro. Forgot to look at the rain gauge this morning, but it was wild for a time early this morning.

  16. Has anyone found twisters streaming? Prime charges and I already pay enough for that.

    1. Pretty quiet with the exception of the wind & rain last night & winds tomorrow.

  21. Instead of waiting for tomorrow, I have posted the first entry set aside for the NOAA / NWS staffing discussion. I have outline the rules in the post, so please take the time to read them.

    Any further comments on this subject can be made on a daily post dedicated to it, and from here on, this comments section (and subsequent forecast post comments sections, shall be dedicated to weather and the occasional off-topic story about family or sports, we we always have done.

    If you do not wish to participate in the NOAA / NWS discussion, simply do not visit those posts. I will not allow any posts made with the aim of antagonizing anybody, and that determination will be made by me and one of my family members who I will have monitoring the blog.

    Any post determined to violate the guidelines I posted there will be removed. So if you’re there, keep it civil.

    The extra posts will be made until such a time that I determine they are no longer needed, similar to what was done with the covid posts.

    I ask one more time to respect the moderators of this blog. Failure to do so will can result in permanent removal.

    Any questions regarding this or anything else about the blog can be sent via email to woodshillweather@gmail.com … Please note that either myself or any one of 3 other support folks may view and/or answer these emails, but most of the time it will be me. Any emails sent with ill intent will not be answered. Any threats will be taken seriously and can result in getting the law involved, so email wisely. Thanks.

  22. A quick additional note…

    WordPress is set to go to the latest post when you enter the blog, and that’s usually the forecast update post. I wrote the first NOAA / NWS Staffing Discussion post a short time ago, so it was bumped to the default, but I have edited the publish time on it to make it appear before today’s forecast update post, so it should be back to “normal” now. Starting in the morning, I will post the NOAA / NWS Discussion update first, then the forecast post, so the forecast post will remain the default.

  24. TK – What about other federal agencies and/or new policies not really related to NWS/NOAA? Are they to be discussed here on WHW or on the “other” post?

    1. I’m limiting to nws noaa. I am sorry for my post this morning on whw and am really thankful to TK for creating the new space.

    2. To be perfectly honest, I’m really just going to limit it to NOAA / NWS on the special section (like the covid section I did), and the usual weather (and slight digressions we always have done) on the main blog.

      I understand there are a lot of other “issues” to discuss, regardless of where you fall in the political landscape, but I’m really not interested in hosting a political blog, only a weather one. The only reasons I have decided to create that second section (temporarily, like covid) is because of the close relationship between what the government is doing (and intends to do) and the meteorology world. I have also gotten a number of private requests to do such a thing from people who don’t want to weed through the discussions of that when they prefer to use my blog strictly for weather. To be fair to them, I will pull that other discussion out, but it’s still easily accessible in the other spot for those who wish to read and/or discuss. It’s the best way to do it and be fair to everyone.

      1. I’m glad on politics as it should not be discussed here as it is a major sore spot right now .

  26. I used the tried-and-true method to bring on some showers at about 5:30. I fired up the grille! 🙂

      1. “The S Clarke Grille” … has a nice ring to it. When does it open for business? 😉

    2. I’m sorry. I cannot stop laughing. If I had a nickel for every time Mac said that and often accused me of orchestrating it

    1. Unfortunately last night’s rain was of very limited help. The ground is still frozen underneath a layer of softer soil. This prevents benefit.

      A solid snow pack would have been more beneficial, and we had it in much of the region for a while, but now it’s limited to areas well north and west. This doesn’t do much to help now.

      Many of the climate models are leaning dry for a good part of 2025. This is not good news.

      1. That is not a good outlook.

        How widespread, geographically, are you thinking the drought problems could be this year?

  28. TK, is this rain area tonight what you were eyeing a few days ago as a follow up that was possible to the initial event that came through overnight?

    1. It was actually the energy for the new storm coming up the frontal boundary. A very slight difference in the orientation and timing of this and we’d have been shoveling out of 4 to 8 inches of snow tomorrow morning.

      1. It seems we dodged a “bullet” moderate snow event. Darn! I had no idea we were even remotely close. 🙁

        “It is easier to snow coming out of mild”. This scenario would have been a perfect example, correct? ❄️

    1. I was happy to take one for the team! 🙂

      I’m glad that you got some deck-time.

  30. Both the NOAA / NWS discussion page and the daily forecast update page are posted…

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