Sunday March 9 2025 Forecast (8:11AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (MARCH 9-13)

A shorter update for today – no real changes to the forecast to write about. Summarizing, today starts bright then displays lots of clouds and maybe a few light rain showers later as warmer air advances in west to east aloft. Tonight, a small, fast-moving low pressure area moves east southeastward across central New England. It may bring a quick burst of snow to southern NH while a few rain and snow showers can occur to the south into early Monday before fair weather returns. This will come along with milder conditions, lasting into Tuesday, with fair weather to accompany it as a narrow area of high pressure slides across the region. A strong cold front will pass by later Tuesday with a rain shower chance, and a switch to much cooler weather by midweek as high pressure slides north of the region, turning the wind north then more east. By later Wednesday or Thursday, a shot at some light precipitation exists as the frontal boundary, not far away, starts to make a return, but meets some resistance at first.

TODAY: Lots of sun to start, then lots of clouds with a shower of light rain and/or ice pellets possible. Highs 37-44. Wind W 5-15 MPH, a few higher gusts.

TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy. A quick burst of snow with a coating possible southern NH, with a few rain/snow showers possible elsewhere. Highs 29-36. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY: Variably cloudy. Chance of snow showers except rain or snow showers south of I-90 during the morning. Highs 48-55. Wind SW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts, shifting to W.

MONDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 33-40. Wind W under 10 MPH shifting to SW.

TUESDAY: Partly sunny. Highs 48-55 South Coast, 55-62 elsewhere. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.

TUESDAY NIGHT: Variably cloudy. A rain shower possible in the evening. Lows 38-45. Wind SW 5-15 MPH with higher gusts, shifting to NW.

WEDNESDAY: Mostly cloudy. Highs 45-52. Wind N to NE up to 10 MPH.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Lows 35-42. Wind NE to E up to 10 MPH.

THURSDAY: Cloudy. Potential for light rain/mix. Highs 40-47. Wind E up to 10 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (MARCH 14-18)

Stronger push of southerly air flow should warm it up late week into the March 15-16 weekend with variably cloudy weather but mainly rain-free. Stronger cold front arrives late in the weekend with a band of showers. Return to fair but chilly weather for St. Patrick’s Day and March 18 too.

DAYS 11-15 (MARCH 19-23)

Battle ground pattern, cold to north, mild to south, a couple storms systems can impact the region and the region may end up on the cold side of at least one of them with potential frozen precipitation. Vernal Equinox occurs early morning March 20.

59 thoughts on “Sunday March 9 2025 Forecast (8:11AM)”

  2. I see the time stamps on WP is up and running correctly. In the past it’s been off by an hour starting the day.

    1. The last several times it has been correct before any posts could be made.

  3. At least it’s a sunny morning. Starting off with DST on a cloudy one makes it even more miserable.

    1. Not for me. I like cloudy weather too. 🙂

      Cloudy, sunny.
      Dark, light.
      Love it all.
      I’m an odd duck. Quack! 🙂

      1. Double quack. Even though weather occasionally doesn’t love me, I really enjoy all types.

  4. I am making a visit to The Pink House in Newbury to say goodbye today. It’ll be demolished soon.

  10. Thanks Tk . March is cruising along . Heading to Maine next weekend & I’m suspecting they will have some decent snow on the ground .

    1. Too little too late? The delayed effects of that will be here just in time to give us a cold rainy start to the spring!

      1. Well, first off, there’s an entire hemisphere available to dump cold into. Not sure where it goes yet, and if it’s a quasi-stationary long wave pattern or progressive.

        Once that is known, then finer details can be looked at. But no, we can’t eliminate anything. The event likely gets underway within 3 days. We’re barely to mid March. Our history shows some strong cold and big winter storms after this date, just not nearly as commonly as prior to this time. That’s just climatology at work.

  13. Thanks TK.

    Just went looking for the 12z GFS and nothing…. Took me a second to remember why.

  15. Thanks, TK.

    Record warmth in the Netherlands yesterday. But in my experience – having lived there for many years – it wasn’t a surprise that people were enjoying the outdoor cafes on the 8th of March. March there is not the transitional month that it is here. Spring tends to arrive in Holland by the last week of February and first week of March, and there’s really no turning back. This doesn’t mean you can’t have chilly days in the 40s. But spring is usually the most tranquil period over there, with a gradual ascent in temperature and often quite settled weather. In all of my years living in or near Amsterdam I never experienced accumulating snow in March. Snow showers on rare occasions, yes. But nothing that stuck to the ground.

    I will never forget the early springs of 1981 and 1982 in the Netherlands. Absolutely stunning weather for weeks on end from late March through April. But all good things must come to an end. And they did by June. I realized then that summer would not be the same over there as it is here.

    1. That sounds right on the money based on my forecasting experience for that area.

  16. Under 9,000 comments until we reach a half million for WHW’s history. 🙂

  18. Now that the nws site sak shared and I’ve used for a few years no longer seems to function …..

    Please can someone recommend a NWS site that provides up to date weather stats for towns/cities.

        1. Thank you, JPD and Philip. Not as robust but absolutely better than what I am finding.

          I don’t understand what happened to the site we had. It was fantastic. Seems to soon to be part of the fallout.

    2. Works fine for me. Here’s the link I have saved which is centered on the Merrimack Valley/Southern NH.

      https://www.weather.gov/wrh/hazards?&zoom=10&scroll_zoom=false&center=42.65264691734741,-71.29028320312501&boundaries=false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false&tab=layers&obs=true&obs_type=weather&elements=temp,wind,gust&temp_filter=-80,130&gust_filter=0,150&rh_filter=0,100&elev_filter=-300,14000&precip_filter=0.01,30&obs_popup=false&obs_density=10&obs_provider=ALL

      1. YES. THANK YOU

        The new updated link took me to what I posted. I just didn’t know how to create a link that mimicked my old one. I got rid of old and will use this and just navigate easily to the station near my home

  20. It’s a week away, but strong indications for a very dynamic pattern producing a power-house late winter / early spring low pressure area in the Plains / Midwest / Great Lakes. This is the type of system that would display a major contrast from very warm weather to its east including a major severe weather outbreak, with a blizzard / snowstorm on its back side.

    We haven’t seen too many power-house lows inside the Lower 48 this winter. Most of them have peaked after they departed, in Atlantic Canada, etc. – one of the reasons for our windiest winter in about a decade, because so many have done that.

    We see a lot of that when phasing is not timed to take place and give us our blockbusters, but it happens after the systems go by, and then we get the big wind between those and approaching high pressure.

    Next weekend, we’ll probably end up in a strong, warm southerly flow, then have a sharp cold front go by and have another event similar to the one was just had in terms of strong northwesterly winds.

    More to come about that in the days ahead…

    1. Thank you, TK. I’m hoping to celebrate my son’s birthday next weekend. Outside would be fun.

      1. It might be windy, but it might be pretty warm too, so we’ll see how it pans out!

        A southwest wind would be a warmer scenario than a south wind, which would have more ocean influence and probably more cloud cover.

          1. Right now I’d lean variably / mostly cloudy, but rain-free. Breezy but not “wicked windy”, and around 60 for a high.

  21. I just got back from Minneapolis and the buzz is growing about that storm. They still have a healthy 5 inches of snow cover. However it looks like the low will go west of the Twin Cities and lead them to record high temps Monday and Tuesday and quite a severe outbreak Weds or Thursday not common for March at that latitude

  22. During the past week, I feel like we went through half the levels on the Beaufort Scale. I usually look at this scale during windy periods.

    I am not sure I have really ever understood it. It seems more oriented towards marine reporting / forecasting and I am also not sure if it is referring to sustained winds or top speeds. Anyway, I think for sustained wind speeds we were at a level 5 or 6 and top winds were at a level 10. And yes, I am sort of guessing at this.

    https://www.weather.gov/mfl/beaufort

    1. Sustained. And it’s very geared toward marine, even though the same scale applies anywhere.

  23. Someone I know said “Once it hits 60 in March, in Boston it never snows again.” which immediately made me burst out laughing, and it was at that time I reminded them of these facts.

    March 1982
    63 on the 11th
    60 on the 31st

    April 1982
    13.3 inches of snow on the 6th-7th

    Nope, never snows after hitting 60 in March.

    March 1996
    61 on the 25th
    62 on the 26th
    60 on the 31st

    April 1996
    0.4 inch snow on the 7th
    0.5 inch snow on the 8th
    1.0 inch snow on the 9th
    5.4 inches of snow on the 10th
    Monthly total of 7.3 inches.

    What was that you were saying about no snow after 60 in March?

    March 1997
    62 on the 28th
    63 on the 30th

    25.4 inches of snow March 31 & April 1, the THIRD greatest single storm snowfall recorded at Boston.

    I said, what were you saying about it never snowing after hitting 60 in March?

    Nope!

    Not the best memory either, especially considering the epic 1997 event. 😉

    1. Can’t believe anyone would confidently say that about the past. Now, if they had said we usually don’t see snow if it hits 60 in March – would you have disagreed?

      That said, I don’t think we’ll see any snow in Boston proper for the rest of this season. I know there are some chances… but I’m officially putting my doubt on record. At the start of the month I was certain we’d see something but now? Stick a fork in it.

  24. That mini low passing north of us tonight packs a little punch. It’s only a few hours, but a nice swath of 1-3 inches of snow falls from Upstate NY across the northern Green Mts. of VT, the White Mts. of NH, and into south central Maine, with some 3+ amounts in the highest elevations. Might even be a little thunder accompanying some of the heavier snow bursts up there.

    Remote chance of a rain/snow shower down this way. At most a coating of snow can fall in the northern reaches of the WHW forecast area if some of those snow showers are far enough south. This is leading milder air into the region though and many of us reach or exceed 50 tomorrow in the WHW forecast area.

    1. I never heard of that “60 in March” saying. You could have also mentioned the 1888 Blizzard. I don’t know if there were any 60s prior but from what I understand temps were quite mild leading up to it.

      NYC received 20”+ from that 1888 event.❄️

      March 11-14 I believe is the anniversary.

      TK – Are you still going with 40-50” for Boston or are you considering scaling it back? It’s going to take a good foot of snow just to get to the very LOW end let alone somewhere in between.

      Boston Snowfall to date = 28.1” ❄️

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