Saturday August 2 2025 Forecast (6:52AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (AUGUST 2-6)

High pressure will dominate our weather into the middle of next week. Temperatures will be determined by wind direction, related to the position of of the high pressure center, which will be generally overhead today, with a cool morning and a cooler coast than inland region during the afternoon. Sunday and Monday will trend warmer as the high center sinks southward. Tuesday and Wednesday we’ll have a frontal boundary slip down from the north in response to another high pressure area coming from Canada. Isolated shower and thunderstorm later Tuesday and/or Wednesday would most likely occur over the mountains of northern New England with that boundary, north of the WHW forecast area, but the arrival of the air associated with the Canadian high pressure system would take place on a north to northeast wind, meaning that after a warm Tuesday, Wednesday would likely be cooler, especially along the coast.

TODAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 74-81. Dew point upper 40s to lower 50s. Wind N up to 10 MPH with coastal sea breezes developing.

TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Fog patches interior lower elevations. Lows 55-62. Dew point lower to middle 50s. Wind calm.

SUNDAY: Sunny. Highs 77-84. Dew point sub-60. Wind variable up to 10 MPH with weaker coastal sea breezes, may shift to W by late-day.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Patchy fog. Lows 60-67. Dew point near 60. Wind variable under 10 MPH.

MONDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 80-87. Dew point near 60. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

MONDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Patchy fog. Lows 61-68. Dew point near 60. Wind W under 10 MPH.

TUESDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 81-88, except cooler South Coast. Dew point near 60. Wind SW up to 10 MPH.

TUESDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 62-69. Dew point near 60. Wind W up to 10 MPH shifting to N.

WEDNESDAY: Partly sunny. Highs 76-83, coolest coastal areas. Dew point near 60. Wind N shifting to E up to 10 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (AUGUST 7-11)

High pressure shifts into the western Atlantic and a more southerly air flow gradually develops. Fair weather is likely the first few days of this period, before there is a slightly better opportunity for some showers to pop up. Humidity gradually increases, but no major heat is expected.

DAYS 11-15 (AUGUST 12-16)

Overall pattern features high pressure off the East coast, promoting warmer, more humid weather with a slightly increased chance of showers and thunderstorms with more moisture moving up from the south, potentially enhanced by any disturbances moving through from the west.

77 thoughts on “Saturday August 2 2025 Forecast (6:52AM)”

  3. This was written by a colleague of mine and I was given permission by them to share here…

    “No tornadoes in New England so far in 2025. Since 1975, the latest first tornado in the region has been August 8 (1980 and 2004). Given the pattern for the next week, it appears we have a good chance of exceeding this record.

    Every year since 1975 has had at least one tornado. Average is 9.

    I use 1975 as a start as that is when the Fujita tornado scale was operationally adopted and it was found that many tornado reports prior were actually microbursts (not just New England, but everywhere). The concept of a microburst as a discrete weather phenomena was not understood well prior to this time.”

      1. I see that in the longer range. I like watching the battle between fading summer and fall.

  7. From Meteorologist Matt Devitt on the quiet hurricane season so far.
    Least active start to hurricane season since 2009 is great news, but remember, the peak of season is still ahead with 92% of tropical activity remaining. Hope for the best, have a plan just in case. All it takes is one.

    1. Long way to go. It’s funny, many people, just like talking about how winter was, in December, talk about how tropical season was, in July or early August. SO much time for each season to go at that point in both cases. Yet they do it anyway. 🙂

      I love it when we’re not even at Thanksgiving yet and people say “This winter sucks!” … might help if we are actually allowed to GET to winter before they declare it to suck. 🙂 Thanksgiving occurs in the autumn.

    2. Many of the analogs for this season had junk at the start, then got going mid August and there are signs starting to show up

  8. #CANCEL WINTER will be on X if December starts out on a warm note. The big snowstorms I remember have mostly come in January and February. The two that did not was the March 1993 Superstorm and The April Fools Storm of 1997.

    1. Happens every year.

      Well, it’s only August, but I start gathering the first clues to the winter forecast during the summer, and .. well no spoilers yet. It’s too early. But I’ll be sharing some interesting things in the weeks ahead.

      1. I hope we get 1-2 snowstorms with widespread double digit snowfall amounts this upcoming winter.

  9. Thank you TK!

    At top of Gunstock Mtn, Gilford NH. 57F. Clear views of Mountains and Lake “Winnie.”

  12. I have to admit though … it’s kind of funny and I am enjoying watch some media grasping for something to hype. And now the cool-down coming into the Northeast is driving them crazy. What? No unprecedented heat?

    So let’s hype up Hurricane Gil like it’s unusual. Oh my goodness, a hurricane, in the eastern Pacific, during hurricane season! Who would have imagined?!?! Good thing that monster, which by the way will be weakening and dissipating over the next several days, is tracking over open water and no threat to land. 😉

    There, now you don’t have to bother clicking any of those silly stories / headlines you might come across on the net. Here, you’re gonna get it straight up, with a dose of media-deflating when *I* decide it’s necessary. 😉

    I’ve had about 5 or 6 headlines about Gil come across my social media feed, and each one of them hyped the storm as something of a threat, or something unusual. Wrong. And wrong. But also no surprise.

    1. Good work. 4 here. It was a combination of choices and an odd word. That seems to be the new normal.

      1. I also got it in 4. I was lucky to be able to eliminate one possibility by remembering the word being a previous solution. It helps to be a long-timer. 🙂

        1. Very clever.

          It helps to be young too 😉

          I can never remember the word that day after an hour or so.

          1. Oh, the same with me about forgetting the current word. But for reason, this word just stuck with me.

  15. On Friday it was announced that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down next year. Many employees will be let go in September and the remaining next January.
    🙁

      1. Republicans have been after CPB and PBS since 1967. Unfortunately, public contributions will not be enough to save them. 🙁

        1967-2026 R.I.P.

    2. Sad day for America. Mr. Rogers must be crying, they have been after PBS since Nixon’s day. Can’t believe we have to deal with this for another 3 years. Lol

    3. Many people have lost their jobs. My brother’s girlfriend went through school to become a lawyer, but she wanted to help people who have disabilities. The money for that specialty no longer exists, and she is out of a job, and they fired her 2 months before she would have met other opportunities. She is still without a job. Many of my friends, some of whom hit their dreams working with NOAA or another organization, were let go last year for no fault of their own, beyond their scientific roles. The USA is a laughing stalk, people have songs about “Dumb Americans”

  16. Thanks, TK!

    A luscious 75 degrees at noon, up from 52 earlier today.
    75 degrees is a far cry from the 98 degrees recorded at noon by WBZ Radio this day 50 years ago. As TK reported yesterday, the hottest temperature in recorded Massachusetts weather history occured on August 2, 1975 in Chester and in New Bedford at 107 degrees. Like today, August 2 was a Saturday.

    I remember heading to the small family cottage in Onset that afternoon. To keep the car from overheating, my dad had to put the heat on. There were many cars on Rt. 25 (the way to the Cape before 495) that were in the breakdown lanes that had succumbed to the heat. It was so hot that you couldn’t walk on the sand at the beach. And, it was so hot that night, we couldn’t get comfortable in the cottage, so we slept on chaise lounges on the lawn as best we could. People were walking and driving up and down Onset Ave. at all hours of the night because of the extreme heat.

    According to my notes, Green Airport hit 105 at 2:20 pm, Logan was 102 at 3:10 and Channel 6 (Providence-New Bedford) reported 104 at 4:58. Channel 6 had digital time and temperature each half-hour on its station ID which I thought was really cool!

    I have done some research about the weather on August 2, 1975 (as you can tell.) The 107 in New Bedford was recorded at a coop station at 133 Williams St. which, in 1975, was the DPW depot. It is now City Hall. The 107 was not recorded at the airport where New Bedford’s official observations are recorded today. TK alluded yesterday that the 107-degree temperature is suspect. I am not sure, but I think that the weather instruments were on the roof of 133 Williams St.

    The 107 in Chester has always been very interesting to me. I always found it curious that both Massachusetts’ temperature extremes (107 on August 2, 1975 and -40 on January 22, 1984.) were recorded in Chester. Chester also recorded -35 on January 12, 1981.

    I contacted the Chester Public Library and its Historical Society several years ago and found out that the town’s weather observations were recorded by David W. Parrett, Jr. He is written up in “A History of Chester.”

    “Starting in the early 1960s, David W. Parrett, Jr., a meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau, maintained a weather station, which was regulated for the U.S. Department of Commerce Weather Bureau, at his home on upper Middlefield Street.

    “In 1970, the U.S. Government set up funds for a 50-foot tower and 22 feet of mast for the wind direction and velocity recording instruments for all weather observations and Sandra Parrett also became a weather observer. The records were then sent to the National Weather Records Center in Asheville, NC.

    “Parrett’s weather report aired regularly on radio station WTIC in Hartford, CT. often putting Chester on the meterological map as the hottest or coldest spot in the entire Berkshire coverage area.”

    So, thanks to David W. Parrett, Jr., Chester, Massachusetts lives on in Massachusetts weather lore!!!

    My hourly temperature observations from August 2, 1975:

    https://imgur.com/a/Yx9BDd6

    My recollections and research on Massachusetts’ hottest day in recorded history: August 2, 1975! 🙂

  20. I’m in the other Cambridge. Well, the first one. 67F and cloudy today. Fine for walking and doing things. Sitting in a cafe/bar at Christ’s College where I’m staying, near “Christ’s pieces” which sounds macabre, and one of The Cars’ most popular hits is playing. Given the modern sound, experimental at the time, it’s remarkable that the song was written in 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5oPZFDci80&t=1s

  21. Starting the drive back.

    Had an Antigonish, NS FM station on.

    The town of Antigonish is asking their residents to conserve water and the water park is only opening 11-3 during the day.

    The transcontinental 104 through Nova Scotia is redone and a lot of places they blew through rock, so along the roadsides are about 10-15 ft wall of rocks.

    Most years, the rocks have running streams coming from them. Not this year, dry as can be. And some burnt grass fields which up here, everything is usually bright green.

    2. Sad I’m sure but a beautiful ride home. Safe travels. Thank you for sharing a special trip with us.

      1. Indeed and I enjoy blogging from the road.

        If anyone hasn’t gone and has a couple weeks or more, I hope they can take a trip up here. 🙂

  22. It’s conceivable that Boston, after the raindrops of early August 1, can go the distance from that to the middle of the month without any measurable rainfall.

    The trend on the most reliable medium range guidance is for a slower evolution into the pattern that can produce showers.

    The ECMWF from 12z prognosticates virtually nothing for rain at Boston, finally spitting out about 1/10 of an inch on August 15.

  23. This post from above bares repeating imo:

    On Friday it was announced that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down next year. Many employees will be let go by September and the remaining in January 2026. 🙁

    This means no more PBS tv or NPR radio broadcasts!

    1. They are likely to save some of them through other means of funding.

      Not going to be a clean wipe-out.

      1. The stations in larger cities will survive. Rural areas and small city stations likely to fold. With in Boston ain’t going anywhere.

        1. That’s possible. No matter what is saved, this is beyond wrong. Many more will lose their jobs. Both are center left with a high rating for accuracy. And yet media outlets at both extremes remain intact and continue to spread the hype that is discussed here regularly

    2. Definitely worth repeating. I saw it earlier and didn’t comment cause it makes me ill. Praying that they are saved. But the question is will our freedom of speech be saved or is it too late.

  24. The mighty Hurricane Gil, down to a tropical storm, will be non-tropical in 24 hours, and dissipated before midweek well NE of Hawaii. NBD.

    Seeing a lot of social media hype today on a disturbance near the East Coast of the US, but this system only has a 30% chance of developing into a depression or more in the next 7 days, and will be heading AWAY from the mainland and passing north of Bermuda, and is also NBD.

    Otherwise, the Atlantic remains quiet and will likely stay that way for a while.

  26. Vicki:

    The Wandering Water Monitoring Lizard Warning for your area has been lifted. Goose has been captured. Following his capture, Goose will be relocated to a nonprofit animal sanctuary.

    1. Love it. Thank you. We posted at the same time. Great minds

      It’s a good thing too. It’s my understanding he might not survive the minus 50 deg temps at night.

  27. Goose the monitor lizard has been captured and moved to a sanctuary where he will have a very special new home.

  30. Joshua sure seems as if you are having a special trip across the pond. Mac’s family loved London. They all visited often and Mac’s sister lived there for a few years while flying pan am international

  32. Yes, Vicki. I enjoy being here. Perhaps too much so.

    Currently, sitting across from the 12th century Round Church in Cambridge.

    PBS cuts depress me. Shortsighted. Is PBS center-left? “Liberal” in American speak? Yes. Is similar media in other peer nations center-left? Yes. Taxpayer funded, too, like the BBC. MUCH more taxpayer funded than in the US. Practically no-one complains about that here. Historically, media has always had a progressive bent on average. Everywhere.

    I detest MSNBC and FOX. They’re both political mouthpieces for the left and right, respectively. They are NOT fact focused like PBS or BBC.

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