Saturday April 26 2025 Forecast (9:47AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 26-30)

Down the home stretch of April 2025 we go! And it starts out with an unsettled weekend, but today will clearly be the wetter of the two days, as widespread rain showers are ours for the morning hours. While there are lulls, scattered rain showers and even a few downpours will be around this afternoon and evening until a cold front pushes through the region, at which time the threat will end. Sunday, upper level low pressure has to move across the region, with lots of cold air aloft. Any meaningful sun will be confined to eastern areas early in the day, otherwise the sky will be dominated by cold air cumulus / stratocumulus, another fairly typical springtime thing here. We’ll have a breezy, cool, and mainly dry day, but I cannot rule out some passing showers, triggered by the cold air aloft, particularly during the afternoon hours. The cold pool finally exits at night. This sets up fair weather and a warm-up early next week as high pressure moves in Monday, then slides off the coast Tuesday. A quick-moving cold front may deliver a rain shower early Wednesday before we get back to dry and breezy weather.

TODAY: Cloudy with widespread rain showers and patchy fog morning. Mostly cloudy with scattered rain showers afternoon. Highs 61-68, except 53-60 South Coast (coolest Cape Cod). Wind S to SW 10-20 MPH.

TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with additional rain showers possible early. Lows 45-52. Wind shifting to NW 5-15 MPH with higher gusts.

SUNDAY: Partly sunny early, then mostly cloudy. A passing rain shower possible. Highs 53-60. Wind NW 10-20 MPH with higher gusts.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Clearing. Lows 35-42. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 63-70. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 50-57. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

TUESDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 70-77 except cooler South Coast. Wind SW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

TUESDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. A possible rain shower overnight. Lows 52-59. Wind SW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

WEDNESDAY: Partly cloudy. A possible rain shower early. Highs 68-75. Wind NW 10-20 MPH, higher gusts.

DAYS 6-10 (MAY 1-5)

Fair weather probability highest May 1 & 5, book-ending an unsettled potential in the May 2-4 window. Details not possible this far in advance. Temperatures variable – averaging near normal.

DAYS 11-15 (MAY 6-10)

Spring blocking pattern. Additional unsettled weather. Variable temperatures – no extremes indicated.

73 thoughts on “Saturday April 26 2025 Forecast (9:47AM)”

  3. Watched the accountant (again).

    I must say I have seen many Ben Affleck films, but I must say I think his performance in The Accountant was magnificent and his best ever! And Anna Kendrick’s performance was equally stunning.

    One caveat: There is much violence in this movie, mostly gun violence with fighting sprinkled in, so If you are adverse to this, not the movie for you.

    Other than that, this is an absolutely OUTSTANDING movie!

    Available at no extra charge on AMAZON PRIME.

      1. I won’t go to the theater to see it, BUT I will certainly see it as soon as it is available on a streaming platform.

      2. Just watched the trailer!!! WOW! looks awesome!
        Looks like they had a good starting point for the sequel.
        I am looking forward to seeing this.

        Thank you.

    2. Thank you. Added to my list. My granddaughters watched twisters which I’ve yet to see. The 13 year old said it was good, especially when kids got sucked up. But then she wants to go into law enforcement and just finished all seasons of the rookie

  5. Will there be 60-ish dew points later today? It would be the first “muggy” day of the new year.

    Also, I heard on overnight radio that NWS is forecasting a HOT SUMMER for the northeast.

    Yuck! 🙁

    1. Dew points are already in the middle 50s to around 60, which would be expected for rainy weather and similar temperatures – saturated air. We’ve already had at least 1 day with similar dew points, so it would not be the first.

      Regarding the radio saying the NWS forecasting a hot summer, beware of that. What they are doing is looking at the long lead forecast map for June through August, which has been slathered all over social media in hype fashion as if we’ve never had a hot summer before. Not to mention, the map actually forecasts a slightly better than 50% chance (according to CPC prediction) that the period from June through August will average above the 30 year normal. It literally could be 1/2 degree warmer than normal, which for all intents and purposes is an “average” summer, which to be honest is kind of what I’m leaning toward. Watch for hype in media – it’s everywhere.

      1. The 4th one is from a walk we took near Tobacco Bay.

        The 5th one is a cove we dropped anchor into for an hour on the glass bottom boat excursion

        And the last one is horseshoe beach.

    2. Upload successful! VERY NICE!!! Thank you for sharing!

      Brings back many memories! My wife and I have been there 5 times! We absolutely loved it there!!!

      So happy you had a great time!!!

      The ship looks awesome!

      1. Thanks !

        Like you and your wife, we love it too !

        It’s funny about the ship, it’s massive until some other ships dock near it and as I’m sure you know, there are larger ones like the Celebrity Equinox which was docked near us for 1 day. I think it had started in Ft Lauderdale and was on its way to Barcelona, needing 4-5 days to cross the Atlantic. It was massive !!!!!

        1. I guess you like the cruises just as well.
          We always flew down there so we would have many extra days to enjoy Bermuda.

          We once stayed in a house across the street from the beach for a week. That was truly awesome. We always rented the
          mopeds and rode them from one end of the island to the other. 🙂

          1. Great to see your pictures. We have been a number of times and every trip has been a winner. Did you get a chance to see the Acquarium?

            1. We didn’t get to the Aquarium, but it sounds like another great reason to go back next year. 🙂

  9. Thanks TK
    Could feel a little bit of mugginess. Second time this year. The first back on April 3rd.

  10. I thought I heard that we have had precipitation 5 Saturdays in a row. Is that correct?

  11. I’ve seen in a few places about our string of bad weekends continuing. This is not really true. Last weekend was beautiful – all 3 days! Started with a summer preview, then trended cooler. But it was basically dry! It just clouded up later on Monday. That was it. And some showers around that night. I wouldn’t count showers at night on the 3rd day of a 3-day weekend as part of a string of bad weekends. 😉

    For what it’s worth, this weekend makes it “one in a row”. 😉 The string was broken LAST weekend!

    1. Yes, last weekend was a GEM for April, that’s for sure.
      Monday (The holiday) was a bit cool, but still nice.

  12. Thanks Tom for sharing your vacation photos! Just curious, do you share these with your students or just immediately get right back to their lessons like nothing ever happened the past week? 😉

    Frankly, it had never occurred to me whether my teachers did much of anything during their vacations back in the day. Lol. 😀

    1. I don’t share photos but I do ask them about their week and then share a bit about our week.

  14. Just picked up my wife at Logan and drove back to Dartmouth in torrential rains. Wow! TK was correct about saturated air!

    1. Rain events almost always work out to perfection and this will be no exception, maybe perhaps overachieve.

      That next Drought Monitor map had better be completely CLEAN once and for all! Every time it comes out there are still the same “fall” colors in place.

      1. This is simply not true. They don’t nearly always work out to perfection. We’ve had a lot of under-producing rain events in recent months – that’s one of the main reasons we’re in a drought.

        I’ve explained how it takes a really long time to get rid of a long term deficit. We’re not going to see a clean drought monitor for a long time to come. In fact, it will probably get worse before it gets better.

  16. A bunch more RAIN heading our way!

    https://radar.weather.gov/station/KBOX/standard

    We have dinner reservations for 630. All I am asking is for about 1/2 lull between 6 and 630 so we don’t get drenched going
    from the car to the restaurant. Any chance that can happen.

    Don’t care IF it is raining buckets when we come out. 🙂

  17. Thanks TK!

    An unusual late April soaker is hitting here in SoCal today. We are heading into what is typically our driest time of year. Wettings rains from mid April through June are uncommon here. Beyond then, it’s up to how strong, or not, the summer Southwest monsoon comes in. Even more impressive, models indicate this storm may not be our last chance at good rains…

    It’s a very cold system too, can almost feel the snow, just a couple thousand feet above me 😉

      1. Yes indeed, if we get enough clearing here tomorrow they’ll be some very pretty views of the low snow levels, before the late April sun takes care of it quickly next week.

    2. Hi WxWatcher! Was noting that system as it moved in yesterday. Our friend Julie here notified me that it was “raining … a lot” in her location. 🙂

  18. That trend for blocking in the longer range is starting to show up more prominently on the ECMWF model particularly. While potentially overdone on the magnitude, I do lean toward the general scenario in which we start to evolve a block with upper level low pressure over the Northeast as early as the first 5 days of May, and continuing for a while beyond that. The pattern configuration may result in a quasi-stationary upper level closed low, quite the pool of cold air aloft. These cold pools aloft are VERY important for forecasting, and are particularly notable in the spring for being associated with below normal temperatures, abundant cloud cover, and depending on your location with respect to it and the associated surface features, unsettled weather that can range from being socked in with low clouds, drizzle, and some rain to just pop up diurnal convective showers that can contain hail and graupel. The fact that it’s so cold aloft has significant meaning because that’s exactly what increases atmospheric instability when you introduce surface heating. Basically a physics “no-brainer”. 😉

    1. I completely agree with your assessment – and ask (in the context of my storm chasing plans) to get it the heck out for the second half of May 😛

      Those spring blocking patterns are a kiss of death for Plains severe wx. But I wouldn’t mind seeing that pattern set up for the first couple weeks of May, figuring it can only last for so long….

      1. Yes I don’t think it’ll last “all month”. Maybe the first 10 days of May or somewhere in there…

  19. TK – Just wondering. Not that I participated, but when will the “winner” of our snowfall contest be announced? Is it on the 30th or sometime in early May? ❄️

    I haven’t formally participated in awhile because it just drove me crazy never coming even remotely close. I “may” enter my prediction later this year. We’ll see. 🙂

  20. WBZ anchor David Wade anchored the CBS Weekend News as a substitute for the regular anchor this evening. He did an excellent job like he’s been with the network for the last 30 years. 🙂

    Come to think of it, I believe he has been with WBZ for just about that long. Am I correct?

  21. Hi Philip. I went back in my tables and don’t see a prediction for last year from you. Do you recall your numbers

  22. Heavy rain and wind on 84 in NE CT. Should have hung out at the Yard House an hour longer to let this crap pass!

    3. I hope all had a good time. I was going to go but no longer deice at night. And sadly see I made a good decision

        1. Awww you are sweet. Hadi had volunteered but we left it that we’d be in touch and I think we misunderstood who was getting back to who and I mistakenly thought it was cancelled. I’m really sorry to have missed it

          1. It wouldn’t be helping, I would have subjected you to me singing broadway musicals the entire time. lmao

    5. Got back safe! Yeah, the salmon was a good choice. Was great to see and chat with you all. Will have to do it again soon.

      We missed you Vicki….next time. I drove right past the exit for 146 and could have picked you up. 🙂

  23. Heading back up 95N I was mainly just ahead of that rain ribbon. There were a few flashes of lightning to my NW as there was a storm there, but that died out as it went to my north, and I avoided the heaviest stuff – made it back before the remains of all that passed through here.

  24. Thanks Hadi for organizing the get together !

    Good to see everyone !

    Rain was to the west and the south, but just encountered drizzle as I neared my route 3 exit.

    On the road to central Mass for a field hockey jamboree.

    1. Another impressive aspect of this cold pool will be the diurnal cloud development will be over the city of Boston before or by 8:00 a.m. This would usually take place a few to several hours later on a typical “cool pool aloft” day.

  26. GFS (00z op run) is up to its old tricks again, bringing a May 6 accumulating snow event to a big portion of SNE including Boston to northern RI, with as much as a foot of snow on the run in the hills of Worcester County to the NH border.

    Can it happen on May 6? Yes.
    Will it happen on May 6? Unlikely.

    The GFS has been creating snow events when no other model has them for months now. This version has a wicked cold bias during storms.

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