DAYS 1-5 (DECEMBER 19-23)
A strong low pressure area will track from the Great Lakes through southeastern Canada today and tonight. A surge of warm air has made it into our region ahead of this storm’s trailing cold front, and rain showers will move in and become numerous to widespread today ahead of this front, with one final cluster or line of moderate to heavy rain showers – slight chance of embedded thunder – as the front move through there region from west to east during this afternoon. A moderate to strong southerly wind will blow ahead of the front, with some local damage and resultant power outages possible. The wind shifts to west behind the front, a little less strong, at which time colder air will return, with a possible additional rain/mix/snow shower this evening as the temperature drops. Any standing water can freeze by early Saturday morning, so watch for icy patches on untreated surfaces that cannot fully dry out by then. Our weekend will be mainly dry, although a weaker, fast-moving low pressure area will be passing to our north. Its warm front goes by late Saturday and its cold front whistles through the region on Sunday. The former can produce a brief period of very light snow in southern NH and northern MA, and the latter can produce a rain or snow shower again favoring northern portions of the WHW forecast area, but more than likely the vast majority of if not all of the region will stay precipitation-free as this features passes by. What it will do is introduce another shot of colder air for Monday. This will be followed by yet another clipper-type system Tuesday that brings the chance of light snow/mix in the morning and a potential mix/snow shower in the afternoon, details to be determined by the exact track of the low pressure area. The winter solstice occurs on Sunday morning at 10:03 a.m. EST.
TODAY: Overcast with widespread rain showers including the slight chance of thunder, then a clearing trend begins west to east mid to late afternoon. Highs 55-62 but starting to fall later in the day. Wind S increasing to 15-25 MPH, gusts 45-55 MPH inland and 55-65 MPH coastal areas and some higher elevations, including isolated gusts above 65 MPH, then shifting to W from west to east later in the day and diminishing slightly. 10-20 MPH except 20-30 MPH South Coast, gusts as high as 45-55 MPH, strongest coastal areas and higher elevations, shifting to W from west to east midday on.
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. A passing mix / snow shower possible. Lows 22-29. Wind W 10-20 MPH, gusts 25-35 MPH.
SATURDAY: Sun followed by clouds. Highs 35-42. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Variably cloudy. A brief period of very light snow possible mainly north of Route 2. Lows 22-29. Wind SW 5-15 MPH,.
SUNDAY: Partly sunny. A brief rain shower possible. Highs 41-48. Wind SW 10-20 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. A brief snow flurry possible. Lows 21-28. Wind NW 10-20 MPH.
MONDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 30-37. Wind NW 10-20 MPH, diminishing.
MONDAY NIGHT: Clear early, clouds return later. Lows 23-30. Wind S up to 10 MPH.
TUESDAY: Cloudy with a chance of light snow/mix morning. Variably cloudy with a rain/mix/snow shower possible afternoon. Highs 35-42. Wind variable 5-15 MPH.
DAYS 6-10 (DECEMBER 24-28)
Up-and-down temperature pattern, leaning toward slightly below normal with a couple disturbances potentially bringing mostly minor precipitation events, timing TBD. A little more detailed outlook for this holiday period coming soon.
DAYS 11-15 (DECEMBER 29 – JANUARY 2)
A similar pattern – a couple smaller low pressure systems with mostly minor impact, but causing variable temperatures, leaning slightly colder than normal.
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55F in Marshfield, after the 1st half of the month, it feels like 80F !
I love it, but don’t want to see it rise any more because the warmer it gets, the better the winds can mix down to the boundary layer. Norton does do a nice job explaining this and mentions a temperature and what the could create for wind gusts per soundings.
Wordle: 2 day streak of fail. But, I just didn’t have any experience with this word, so, I couldn’t come up with it, but now, I have a new word in my vocabulary, which, I will NEVER use again. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Me either!!! This was insane!!!!
Good morning and thank you TK.
54 here
Ocean: 46
WORDLE: 6
Crap!! What was that. Never in a million years heard of that word. I finally got it down to having the first 3 letters in position, but it made no sense at all. Letter substitution final yielded this crazy unknown word. Hardest word yet for sure. Very curious to see other scores.
Awesome getting it, JpDave !!
Thanks. I just looked up the word. Now I KNOW what the word is. Just had NO IDEA it was spelled that way.
Some others will get it in under 6 for sure. I am confident in our crew.
Agreed !!!! 🙂
Awesome to get it but can see why it can easily be a fail too.. I’m still struggling after 4 guesses, three letters in correct position and absolutely no clue.
Oh …..
So, Eversource has been working the gas lines within a mile of our campus and we have, 2 days in a row now, all left the school because of an odor that has smelled like natural gas.
Turns out, it is some chemical they use near the lines, that is safe, smells like natural gas, but it isn’t dangerous. But still, because it smells somewhat similar, we have cleared the building to let the fire dept come in, they must have a way to measure what is in the air and confirm it is the other chemical and not natural gas.
It would be interesting if we have to go outside today, especially btwn say 10am and 1pm. Never a dull day 🙂
I saw on the wonderful world of FB that you evacuated at least once. I always thought a smell was added to natural gas because it has no odor. And if you smell it, get out.
Thanks TK.
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Hopefully that Clipper system next week can save Christmas! Those type of systems usually disappoint SNE. So moisture starved as they are.
57F in Marshfield
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=rrfs_a&p=850wh&rh=2025121906&fh=6&r=us_ne&dpdt=&mc=
From the 6z RRFS A. That dark brown area around the Maryland, southern NJ coastal area. That is the low level jet that is developing and strengthening and will lift north northeastward across southern New England 3-5 hrs from now.
The wind is gusting, under that to 48 mph at Assateague, in Maryland (camped there, awesome state park) and 47 mph just east of Cape May, NJ
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=rrfs_a&p=850wh&rh=2025121906&fh=9&r=us_ne&dpdt=&mc=
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=rrfs_a&p=850wh&rh=2025121906&fh=12&r=us_ne&dpdt=&mc=
These last 2 links show the simulation of the low level jet 3 hrs from now and 6 hours from now.
In the FWIW dept, those wind gusts above 48 mph and 47 mph are happening under a simulated 850 mb low level jet of 85-88 knots.
The expected 850 mb low level jet simulates to 95-98 knots passing overhead of our area.
Of course, in theory, it should be a little milder in MD and southern NJ than it would be here, so they are probably achieving better mixing than we will along our coastline.
But that is early in the day down there. Certainly just as warm if not warmer by the time the winds get here.
I have to go out this morning around 930 and have to go out again around 130. Should be fun.
https://radar.weather.gov/station/KOKX/standard
Decent slug of rain, maybe likely to cross western and central southern New England?
Wordle in 4. Don’t want to spoil it for those still playing- but those who say they’ve never heard of the word, you have, just probably not seen it written, but you’ve heard it, especially around this time of year.
Outstanding Job!!!
You are exactly right. I just never realized it was spelled like that!
Still, A pretty insane word for Wordle!!
Yep, definitely not easy. I got squareword in 7 today too (yesterday it was 9) so I’m feeling good on my word games today, haha 🙂
And btw, I knew that one or more of the crew WOULD get it in less than 6. Way to go.
I know you’re right Julie and yet, it’s not ringing a bell for me.
The 5 letter word I’ve heard a lot this time of year is Santa and the word was not that ! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Think Three Wise Men. 🙂
Wordlers, do NOT LOOK AT THIS until you have completed today’s word game.
This is mainly for Tom
https://ibb.co/nN17b3t1
Awesome !!
Thanks, JpDave !!
Awesome Julie.
Thanks TK
Wordle was a hoot for me today! That word is a big part of the story of the first time I met my future wife’s family on Thanksgiving Day, 1982.
I had the opportunity to use it as my second guess today. It seemed like a wasted guess. But I knew that if I didn’t try it and it was the word, I would be bummed. So I tried it and got it in 2.
🙂
WOW!!!! Fantastic!!!!
According to 12Z HRRR, strongest winds should be around NOONISH.
Thank you, TK.
Up to 56 here. 0.14 in the bucket and growing. No wind to speak of……. Yet
58 here.
I was just out and the wind is picking up here.
As of a little bit ago, wind was gusting to 33 at Logan.
59 mph gust at Farmingdale Airport, elevation 72 ft and at nearby at Nearby NY Kennedy Airport, 55 mph gust.
I see another 56 mph and 49 mph gust on the southern coast of central Long Island at 2 different obs
This is nicely overlapped with where the 850 mb jet was projected to be centered at this hour.
10 mins later, seeing gusts of 61, 60 and 59 mph from 3 different obs along the south coast of Long Island.
This might be interesting for an hour or 2, in about 3 hrs locally.
Thanks, TK!
The HRRR is as bullish with the winds in my area as it was last night. The latest run,that’s cranking right now, brings 63-knot winds (72.4 mph) at noonish as Dave mentioned earlier.
Good luck, Tom! Here’s hoping there are no unexpected interruptions in your school day, gas lines or power outages! Is today your last day before Break, or do you go to Tuesday?
Julie, congrats on making it to the end of the semester! I think you had mentioned that today is the last day of exams. Enjoy your vacation and holidays! 🙂
Hi Captain !!
Thanks and Tuesday at 11 ish is our release !!
Hope all has been and is well !!!!
12Z NAM wind gusts in MPH
https://ibb.co/ZR8vdD19
14Z HRRR wind gusts in KNOTS
https://ibb.co/0VrvtDxT
50-60 knots and one small area of 60-70 knots
57-69 mph and one small area of 69-80 mph!!!!!
Happy birthday to North!!! Hope you have a fun day!!
Oops. I have the incorrect date. Sorry, North!!!! Hope you have a great non birthday day
I am going to live like today is my birthday!
Wordle 5. Finally. Took me the longest recall
5 was with a lot of luck.
Nice. I am the ONLY one in the caboose and extending a line to Tom.
Up to 0.34 and climbing. I’m hearing some rainy gusts.
Strongest wind gusts I see via MESO WEST is 55
at a station on Long Island.
Happy Birthday North !!
just saw above, lol, whenever that day me be !!
9/19
🙂 🙂 🙂
On MesoWest, I now see a 55 mph wind at New London, CT
Getting close.
https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KFRG&hours=72
https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KISP&hours=72
https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KHWV&hours=72
Here are the 3 mesonet obs that, at some point, perhaps within past hour, recorded a gust of 61, 60 and 59 mph. I don’t recall if these will line up accordingly, but they are the 3 obs. 🙂 🙂 🙂
they all occurred around 9:54 to 9:56 am 🙂
Starting to get some wild gusts here in the last few mins
Here too. A few gusts into the low 20s
https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KGON&hours=72\
Groton, CT …. SE corner of state, gust to 66 mph
elevation: 10 ft
Wow
Logan up to 37 mph wind gust
Groton, CT 66 mph
58 mph gust at Norwood Airport.
The Eversource outage map for CT is lit up like a Christmas tree.
and on the numbers I’m hitting on the coast, its hundreds of customers out many times.
Inland too, which has some areas of elevation, probably a couple hundred ft, but that’s enough elevation to send them up into the stronger winds.
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=gfs&p=qpf_acc-imp&rh=2025121912&fh=174&r=us_sw&dpdt=&mc=
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=gfs&p=sn10_acc-imp&rh=2025121912&fh=174&r=us_sw&dpdt=&mc=
WxWatcher posted yesterday, I believe it was, about the upcoming pattern and the firehouse coming ashore the west coast the next 10 days.
1st link is projected QPF
2nd link is projected snowfall
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=ecmwf_full&p=qpf_acc-imp&rh=2025121900&fh=186&r=us_sw&dpdt=&mc=
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=ecmwf_full&p=sn10_acc-imp&rh=2025121900&fh=186&r=us_sw&dpdt=&mc=
Euro, same idea as above.
It’s crazy here right now. Lots of branches on roads. Not blocking though as of now.
60-90 more minutes
winds easing in west and west-central Long Island.
Outages for Mass up to 14k almost.
i can HEAR the wind now. Logan to 38 mph
Winds easing, relatively speaking, quickly now into eastern Long Island.
Back edge of low level jet moving quickly northeast. Maybe another 45-60 mins?
Logan gusting to 48.
I do NOT hear the wind here. Looks rather routine out there.
I think maybe the worst has past here ALREADY.
50 at T.F. Green
Thanks, TK.
It’s windy here. I can hear it from time to time.
My daughter is flying over Labrador currently. That’s my guess. It’s going to be a tough last 2 hours. Plane has to go through quite an active airmass.
2 wind peaks.
1) Noon hour (now).
2) With narrow squall line.
Timing of narrow squall line? thanks
Logan 56
Barely a gentle breeze here, not that I am complaining/
The one time I HEARD the wind, which was at about 11:45, was the strongest here and I estimate “about” 50 mph. Now barely into the 20s.
12Z GFS now has RAIN for Eastern sections on the 23rd.
So much for a change at a white Christmas!!
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=gfs&p=prateptype_cat-imp&rh=2025121912&fh=102&r=us_ne&dpdt=&mc=
GDPS covers us in light SNOW!!!
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=gdps&p=prateptype-imp&rh=2025121912&fh=102&r=us_ne&dpdt=&mc=
snow
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=gdps&p=snku_024h-imp&rh=2025121912&fh=114&r=us_ne&dpdt=&mc=
ICON a touch of snow
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=icon&p=prateptype_cat_icon-imp&rh=2025121912&fh=102&r=us_ne&dpdt=&mc=
snow
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=icon&p=snku_024h-imp&rh=2025121912&fh=114&r=us_ne&dpdt=&mc=
Here’s waiting on the EURO
Euro AI 10:1 snow
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=ecmwf_aifs&p=sn10_acc-imp&rh=2025121912&fh=114&r=us_ne&dpdt=&mc=
59 mph gust at logan!!!
NOT here, that’s for certain.
EverSource Outage map
https://ibb.co/8LRGkCc8
Zoomed into Eastern MA
https://ibb.co/chyDwdFk
A quick, fierce squall came roaring through about 20 minutes agofollowed by the sun! The dark clouds returned and it’s pouring again. I have the scanner on and a number of trees are down in the city and parts of the area are without power.
Thank you TK!
Wordle: 3
We’ve had several of our bank branches lose power. I lost cable for a short time but all is back online now.
Wow!!!
Aside from Tom and Myself, the WHW Wordlers did very very well today. I am impressed.
Wow. A three is quite impressive
Thanks, TK.
Wind howling here.
JAD here as far as I am concerned. (just another day)
https://weather.us/radar-us/massachusetts/velocity/KBOX.html#play-0-9-5
Not tremendous wind here. Still low to mid 20 gusts. We are at 58 with 0.61. My gauge blew over but I am always the same as the Nws station near here.
Pretty quiet at the moment
Not here 🙂
Whiteout of rain with ferocious wind gusts.
Heavier convective elements mixing down that wind.
Here is a Christmas Song that is clearly a little different.
I rather like it from the Drop Kick Murphy’s. They certainly had fun with this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTx-sdR6Yzk&list=RDqTx-sdR6Yzk&start_radio=1
Just notified about lightning 9.1 miles from here. My guess is it’s the line running right along CT:RI border. Can’t tell if it’s headed here or will slide east.
Lightning Now 3.4 miles a was away
Looks like it is heading right to you.
I see a strike in Douglas.
I’m right on Douglas line.
Just the head of the line passed over here. It was a bit elongated west to east. Rest went east of me but it sure is moving fast
Thanks TK.
57,000 people without power in CT as of 1:30PM between Eversource and United Illuminating.
It looked like a tropical storm earlier from the 15th floor of the Gold Building in Hartford with a white out of sideways heavy rain and wind. Visibility has cleared up quite a bit now.
Wow. That’s crazy. Not that bad here yet but seeing power outages coming in
By here I mean my area. No idea how coast is
Long Island earlier….those are some crazy waves:
News12LI
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STORM WATCH: PSEG Long Island is reporting nearly 600 outages affecting more than 15,000 customers, as winds reach 60 mph. – https://tinyurl.com/yb39nfet
https://x.com/News12LI/status/2002055193769263458?s=20
Wow. Awesome info. Thanks Mark
eweather
@Eweather13
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The wind is just pushing the rain and the water north on the Connecticut River. The river is flowing north right now. Never so clearly seen the rain blowing through the river Valley like this.
https://x.com/Eweather13/status/2002042275249914351?s=20
Getting brighter here.
Really calm with light rain
Windy App has been fun to use today!
It has been. For once I remembered in my own.
Front approaching. Just got DARK here
Longshot, for the first time that I’ve noticed, windy has about six areas in Sutton to choose from. Uxbridge a a lot larger area wise and I inky see all of uxbridge as a choice. Maybe I squawked enough about our having a variety of climate zones in one town.
My ex-wife’s flight from Amsterdam just landed. She’s visiting my son and will see my daughter, too. This is what happens when a family lives thousands of miles apart. Her flight was delayed. Longer flight time, as I thought would happen.
Daughter is still up in the air, now over the Maine wilderness from what I can track. Her flight is delayed even more. Hopefully, it won’t be too rough a descent and landing.
Positive thoughts for your daughter’s landing.
Mac had stories of their travels. Originally, for home leave, they took the Stockholm from Sweden to US. He has several stories of coming through really rough seas
Yikes. Huge bang not far away. So far power here. Our lines are underground. Not something I support as a whole but localized power outages don’t impact us.
Some heavy rain but not a lot of wind with the squall line here.
Rain was heavy with that second squall line but the wind was not too bad here with it.
Sorry for the two comments. The first one wouldn’t go through.
I noticed the blog lagging a bit too. And always nice to see you here. Even on a non birthday day 😉 😉 😉
:). Have the day off today. Work has been crazy for this entire year and leaves me little time to do anything else!
Awesome. Enjoy. My DIL works in Franklin and was sent home due to no power. She has been crazed at work too. Happy for you both