Wednesday March 12 2025 Forecast (7:20AM)

52 Comments

DAYS 1-5 (MARCH 12-16)

A cold front moved through last night, and while you wouldn’t have really noticed that at first even if you were outside, you’ll notice it today, as it’s 15 to 20 degrees cooler than yesterday. This cooler spell will last a couple days, and while the frontal boundary attempts to return as a warm front, high pressure to the north will thwart its progress for a while. A little overrunning enhanced by a weak disturbance aloft will trigger a band of precipitation tonight, which looks like it’ll take the form of a fairly narrow band stretching from west to east, also moving from west to east, starting as a mix or a bit of rain then going over to some snow. Wherever this is, a coating of snow can occur, but will melt away early Thursday once the precipitation moves out. The clouds will remain stubborn on Thursday, and we can only hope enough breaks work in to at least get a limited view of a total lunar eclipse, occurring in the post-midnight / pre-dawn hours Friday. I’ll update with exact times next blog if it looks like we have a shot to see it. Friday’s weather will feature a lot of clouds and a slightly milder air mass as the warm front does finally amble its way across the region, very slowly. This sets us up for a breezy, warmer weekend with a moderate to strong southerly air flow. This will be occurring ahead of a major Midwest / Great Lakes storm which produces severe weather in the South and a snowstorm in parts of the Plains to Upper Midwest. For us, we just see lots of clouds, and at most some spotty rain showers by Sunday afternoon, evolving into a more widespread rain shower event Sunday night as a slow-moving cold front approaches and moves in from the west.

TODAY: Sun filtered at times by high clouds through early afternoon, then limited by more high to middle clouds thereafter, also a few lower clouds around the eastern coastal areas. Highs 43-50. Wind N shifting to E 5-15 MPH, gusts 20-25 MPH.

TONIGHT: Becoming cloudy. A period of rain/mix to snow showers with minor accumulation, favoring the I-90 belt and up to about 25 miles south of it and 35 miles north of it. Lows 32-39. Wind E 5-15 MPH.

THURSDAY: Cloudy. Highs 40-47. Wind E 5-15 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Cloudy. Lows 35-42. Wind E 5-15 MPH.

FRIDAY: Mostly cloudy. Highs 47-54. Wind E shifting to S 5-15 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Lows 45-52. Wind S 5-15 MPH, gusts 20+ MPH.

SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy. Highs 48-55 South Coast, 55-62 elsewhere. Wind S 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Lows 48-55. Wind S 10-20 MPH, gusts 25+ MPH.

SUNDAY: Mostly cloudy. Chance of a passing rain shower during the day. Widespread rain showers at night. Highs 50-57 South Coast, 58-65 elsewhere. Wind S 10-20 MPH, gusts 25-35 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (MARCH 17-21)

A slow-moving cold front pushes through the region with additional widespread rain showers for St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, with maybe a later-day drying trend. Fair, cool weather heading into the middle of next week the some potential unsettled weather later in the week, coinciding with the start of spring. Vernal equinox: 5:01 a.m. EDT March 20.

DAYS 11-15 (MARCH 22-26)

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.

52 thoughts on “Wednesday March 12 2025 Forecast (7:20AM)”

  6. Jimmy, I’m surprised that you haven’t yet mentioned the March 11-14 1888 Blizzard. ❄️

  7. Thanks TK !

    2 days in the 60s, followed by a semi backdoor cold front.

    Spring has, for now, arrived.

  11. Thanks Tk . I am leaving Maine for home around 9am on Sunday , it should be all dry leaving .

  13. On the forecasts I did last night at work, I went a little more optimistic for Friday, calling it partly sunny around here instead of mostly cloudy. As a result, my temperatures were a couple of degrees warmer than yours. I also went a couple of degrees warmer on the weekend. Whenever we have anomalous warmth in the Spring, the models always underestimate it, so I tried to compensate for that.

    With lows only dropping into the 50s Saturday night and then temperatures getting well into the 60s on Sunday, I may end up wearing shorts for my 3am-3pm shift at work on Sunday.

    1. That won’t be good for the SB parade. A warm March day will bring major crowds to what usually is a hectic day there with the drinking & fights .

  15. Notes:

    The B’s played an unreal game last night. Scored 3 in the 3rd to beat the Panthers 3-2. Marchand did not play.

    The St Patrick’s parade was moved to an earlier time to help cut down on drinking and fights. The problem to me is that earlier start time means the possibility of running into heavier rain.

      1. From what I’ve heard, there have been a number of “incidents” over the years. I thought with the local bars closed that took care of the problem. I guess not.

        HS and college students cause the most problems at the parade. ☘️

    2. Start time will have O effect. This is one of the busiest & best weekends for drinking ( if you will ) the kids will be juicing all weekend starting Thursday- Tuesday. This parade is well known for a party atmosphere, I’ve been here & have done it all . Back in my drinking days SB was the best place to party .

        1. There should be more of a “family” atmosphere like in the old days. Even parade participants are no longer allowed to consume alcohol.

          1. Philip this has always been a crazy day ( some years crazier than others like last year !! Trust me this parade is circled on the calendar for many . After all the problems from last year , it’s been warned if it’s repeated this year , the parade will be moved out of SB.

            1. I have a strong feeling the drinkers will be ruining it for everyone else and this will be the last one there.

              Bottom line: I don’t have faith in them to behave, and choosing that path in public with children around is pathetical and inexcusable.

              1. I hope the parade is never held in Boston downtown as I believe that there would be even more disrupters causing trouble. At least as it is, it’s located in a specific section (SB) of the city.

                Besides, by tradition it’s been held there for over 100 years. ☘️

              2. So so sad.

                Warning. Vicki memory happening. Might want to stop reading now. 😉 One of my fondest memories of Ted was at that parade. My mom always insisted we put our hand over our heart when an American flag passed in a parade. As a silly kid, I was embarrassed so folded my arms to both place my hand on my heart and not look as if I were doing so. Took Ted a minute to figure it out. He looked down and quietly said not to ever be ashamed at honoring our flag.

                Till this day, I always put my hand over my heart when I see a flag….even on TV

              3. Agree & a nice warm day for this event is even worse , but for this one they come in any weather .

  16. TK – I don’t know what typo there was above but as for only getting 3 hours of sleep, if we were still on Standard time, you would have received 4 hours and better rested. 😉

    1. In my tired stupor, I talked about the total solar eclipse coming up. No. That was 11 months ago. 😉 … This one is a lunar. 🙂

      1. That is why I asked. I believe we do have a partial solar eclipse on March 29. Or did I make that up

  17. 12z GFS with a snowstorm out in the fantasy range around March 27. Yesterday’s 12z GFS had us in the low 80s that day. The truth lies somewhere in between those 2 extremes.

          1. Thank you SAK!! That is truly HILARIOUS!!!!
            and we are to trust this model? I don’t think so. 🙂 🙂 🙂

  18. I got a better chance at seeing the lunar eclipse in the wee hours of Friday morning than the snowstorm the 12z GFS is showing.

    2. There’s actually a near or slightly better than 50% chance we at least see some of that eclipse.

  20. Wow! Did it ever SNOW hard for a bit here. All-in-ALL, a good half inch or so on the ground. 🙂

  22. I’d say the snow was not a surprise, since I had it in the forecast, with minor accumulation as a possibility. 🙂

Comments are closed.