Wednesday December 31 2025 Forecast (6:57AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (DECEMBER 31 – JANUARY 4)

The final day of 2025 will be less windy than the penultimate day of the year was, but it will be a cold one, with dry conditions. Expect some cloudiness to interrupt the sun at times with an approaching trough. This evening as we get set to welcome 2026, we’ll have clouds increasing as a clipper system rounds the bend of a trough moving in and somewhere toward and mainly after midnight, snow will break out across the region, resulting in some accumulation (least northwest, more to the southeast), but not a major event. This tapers off to snow showers as low pressure starts to redevelop just offshore and moves away prior to noon on New Year’s Day. From Thursday afternoon through the coming weekend, the story will be cold and dry weather as high pressure moves in and delivers an abundance of polar air. A storm system is likely to pass well south of our area on Sunday with a shield of high clouds filtering the sun.

TODAY: Variably cloudy. Highs 27-34. Wind W 5-15 MPH, gusts around 20 MPH.

TONIGHT: Becoming cloudy. Snow late evening / overnight – a coating to 2 inches except 2 to 4 inches southeastern MA and southern RI. Lows 14-21. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.

THURSDAY (NEW YEAR’S DAY): Partly sunny. Morning snow showers possible. Highs 24-31. Wind W to NW 10-20 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 11-18. Wind NW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

FRIDAY: Partly cloudy. Highs 22-29. Wind NW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 11-18. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

SATURDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 25-32. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 11-18. Wind NW up to 10 MPH.

SUNDAY: Sun and high clouds. Highs 25-32. Wind NW up to 10 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (JANUARY 5-9)

Watching January 5-6 for a clipper low potential. Later-period threat has trended to less of a threat with some uncertainty in the overall set-up. Temperatures mostly below normal, but may moderate late-period.

DAYS 11-15 (JANUARY 10-14)

Variable temperatures averaging around normal. While the pattern looks a little more active for precipitation, there are no strong indications of major storminess at this point.

42 thoughts on “Wednesday December 31 2025 Forecast (6:57AM)”

  3. Thanks TK
    A little snow to ring in the New Year!
    Snowfall Standings on last day of the year
    NY 7.2
    BOS 4.3
    A chance for BOS to close the gap a little bit with the system tonight. This could change but it looks like NY will stay in the lead till mid January.

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  4. Thank you TK!

    My thank you extends beyond your forecast for just today. It is really the thinking and work you put into the daily forecast for each day of the year. I have learned a lot from you about the weather. (Not excluding others who have contributed to my learnings.)

    Thank you again, Longshot.

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    3. No way to say it better. Thank you, TK, so very much.

      Thank you too, Longshot, and everyone in the WHW family that TK has created.

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  6. Thanks TK and thank for always being there for us weather wise. You never miss a day forecasting!

    Theme seems to be cold and dry.

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      1. We’re back 🙂

        Wicked, the play, was really good !!

        Then, we took our time for dinner and then drove home, arriving around 11:30am.

        Our small town, looks even smaller now :), which is just fine with me. 🙂

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  9. Thanks, TK.

    It’s quite the streak that Philip reminds us of every day. The periodic light snow events – reminiscent a bit of last year – remind us that it can snow. But the weather gods thus far won’t allow for heavy snow in Boston. It’s not a curse. It’s simply the way things have played out meteorologically.

    I do like the cold and sunny days, though.

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  15. I’m hoping the snow won’t interfere with the firing of Sutton’s Big Ben cannon at midnight.

    “”Big Ben” was one of four cannons received from the U.S. Government by Sutton after the Civil War to be used as monuments to commemorate and honor the local soldiers who fought and died in the Civil War.

    Three of the cannons are fixed monuments; two are located at the entrance of the Town Hall with the third located on Mateychuk Square in the Village of Manchaug.”

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    1. Manchaug, reminds me of the real Indian Name of Webster Lake.

      Formal Name: Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

      Meaning: “You fish on your side, I fish on my side, nobody fishes in the middle” or “fishing place at the boundaries”.

      Common Names: Webster Lake or Lake Chaubunagungamaug (meaning “fishing place at the boundary”)

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      1. My brother and future wife attended Nichols college. When I visited, we’d go to a restaurant on the lake. I learned to say the name then. Thanks for the memory and smile.

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        1. My Grand Mother taught me that at a very young age.

          I work with a guy whose Alma mater is Nichols College.
          VERY SMART GUY.

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  16. On this last day of 2025 I just say thank you to TK for doing this blog. I enjoy talking weather with all of you and sometimes sports. I look forward to continue to do that in 2026 and I look forward to reading TK’s predictions for 2026 as well as other people’s predictions. One of my predictions Boston’s 6 inch snow drought will end between January 15th – 25th. Maybe one of my predictions will be right in 2026.

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    1. I am incapable of making a prediction, but here’s one.

      I predict that in 2026 there WILL be Weather, whether we like it or not.

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      1. I’m with you on this bold prediction. I also think that clouds, sunshine, rain, and temperature swings will be in our future. The only thing I’m uncertain of is heavy snow.

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