DAYS 1-5 (JANUARY 12-16)
Low pressure in Atlantic Canada and high pressure southwest of New England combine to give us a blustery, chilly day to start the week today, but with dry weather with sun and some intervals of clouds. Low pressure pulls further away and high pressure slides south of the region Tuesday with fair, chilly, and more tranquil weather, and then the high slides offshore by Wednesday with a milder southwesterly wind. At that time, a weakening cold front from a low pressure area well to our northwest will approach, bringing a round or two of light rainfall, but this will be battling some drier air at mid levels and may have trouble maintaining much identity as it moves into the region, so any rain that does occur would be limited. Later in the week a transition to colder weather takes place as a larger scale trough moves into the region. It looks like we’ll be mild enough for a few rain showers to be around on Thursday during the day, and while it appears that more significant storm development would take place too far offshore to have direct impact here in terms of precipitation, its role in our weather will be to pull colder air in Thursday night and Friday. During this time, an upper low will cross the region, bringing the chance of snow showers, and possibly some heavier snow squalls.
TODAY: Dominant sun followed by a sun / cloud mix. Highs 33-40. Wind W 5-15 MPH, gusts 20-30 MPH.
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy, then clearing. Lows 22-29. Wind W diminishing to under 10 MPH.
TUESDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 36-43. Wind W 5-15 MPH.
TUESDAY NIGHT: Increasing clouds. Lows 25-32 evening followed by a gradual temperature rise overnight. Wind W to SW up to 10 MPH.
WEDNESDAY: Mostly cloudy. Light rain possible mainly in the morning. A late-day rain shower west of I-95. Highs 42-49. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Chance of a rain shower I-95 belt eastward early. Lows 33-40. Wind W up to 10 MPH.
THURSDAY: Variably cloudy. Chance of a rain shower. Highs 40-47. Wind W to NW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts by late-day.
THURSDAY NIGHT: Variably cloudy. Chance of snow showers. Lows 20-27. Wind NW to N 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.
FRIDAY: Variably cloudy. Chance of snow showers. Highs 28-35. Wind NW 10-20 MPH, higher gusts.
DAYS 6-10 (JANUARY 17-21)
A trough / frontal system swings through the region during the January 17-18 period with some precipitation likely. Timing, details, and intensity are to-be-determined, but early leaning is for a non-major, progressive event later Saturday (1/17) to early Sunday (1/18). MLK Jr. Day on January 19 looks dry and cold. Late-period we stay cold and watch for the arrival of low pressure with a chance of some snow, but this is out to day 9 and 10 with a lot of uncertainty. A slower evolution would mean that dry weather would continue longer. Will monitor trends here.
DAYS 11-15 (JANUARY 22-26)
Overall colder pattern expected with one or two precipitation chances that would favor frozen over liquid. This is a general outlook with no real way to determine specific outcomes and impacts in our area yet.
https://stormhq.blog/2026/01/12/weekly-outlook-january-12-18-2026/
Good morning and thank you TK.
Temp 28 here.
Ocean: 43
Wordle: 3
Pats: They were good enough to win! ANd now Drake Maye has a playoff game under his belt. Now go get us another one!!
Pats: perfectly said !
Wordle: Excellent and I’m right there with you. Actually played at midnight last night.
We were playing at the same time. 3 for me also.
Another 3. Awesome!!!
Thanks TK !
Wordle: 3
I look forward to doubting the Patriots 3 defense more times, hopefully, over the next month for their 7th Super Bowl win. 🙂
Nice 3!!!!
Go Pats. Their defense was special last night. I do hope we don’t lose Gonzalez!!! That would be a tremendous blow!!!
Christian Gonzalez sustained a head injury and is under
concussion protocol. Hopefully, it is a mild one and he’ll be good to go on Sunday!!
Awesome 3 to you both.
My predicted score was WAY OFF, but a win is a win is a win, especially in the play offs!!!!
Mine was in the stratosphere. I had them scoring 31 points.
Thanks TK
Thanks TK.
1,407 ❄️
If this is not correct, let me know.
It’s a tricky issue. If it snows 3″ late on Saturday night (before midnight) and the same storm drops 3″ more early Sunday morning (after midnight) then technically it was a 6″ storm but neither day saw a 6″ snowfall. It depends on what and how you’re counting. You’re probably close enough in some sort of way.
Thanks for your input. I’ll continue the count as is unless TK says otherwise.
Thank you TK!
Wordle: 3
Wow. All 3 so far. Awesome
great 3!! Seems to be the theme of the day!!! ALL aboard!!!!
Thank you, TK.
27 up from the low of 24
The game was tense for me. But then games, especially playoff games, are not just handed to a team. I love having watched this team develop this season. I love Vrabel. He is my idea of the perfect coach. I say that knowing I missed the shortcomings in BB so hope I’m not missing anything here. And Maye and Henry and all seem to have a spark.
Tense, I’d so so!!!!
When Maye had that interception (Ball tipped) and the Chargers had it at the 10 yard line, my wife said she couldn’t watch it and left the room. When I told her that the Pat’s held them, she came back in and watched the rest of the game!
Good teams WIN games like this!!! So far, so good.
And not for nothing, but this was a GOOD play off team they beat. Now what do the nay sayers say about the “weak schedule”?????? 🙂 🙂 🙂
All very true. I have been thinking the exact same thing as your last paragraph. Win lose or draw, our Patriots are a team to be proud of.
Congratulations on all the great Wordle scores. As often happens, I don’t do well when others do. I got this in 5.
Yesterday’s “quark” made me laugh. Is anyone familiar with the game Probe from the 1960s? Many years ago, we found a well-preserved set being given away on the side of our street. Sometimes we add a restriction to the words that we use. One time it was “something that would fit into our breadbox.” After a few rounds, it started to look like my 16-year-old son and I had used the same word. We both took the restriction to the theoretical extreme with “quark!”
After playing some 200 games and comparing scores, it seems we all are capable of excellent scores, but also are capable of scoring a 5 or 6 or even a fail now and then. Funny game.
Good work getting it. For me any number is a win. There is really very little logic and far more luck and frame of mind with Wordle. I have a tendency to do better with three or fewer letters on my first two guesses than four or even five.
Thanks, TK.
Here is a thought.
How about a new stat for quarter backs?
Adjusted Completion Percentage
Deduct 1 completion for each “Throw Away Pass”
Take Drake Maye yesterday. He had 15 of 29, but he had several throw away passes to avoid losing yardage and/or to stop the clock. Not sure of the total number, but it was at least 3 and perhaps 5 or 6. For sake of discussion let’s say it was 4.
So his completed percentage would be: 15/29 or 51.7%
Adjusted completion percentage would be: 15/25 or 60%
Thoughts.
I was thinking during the game that the throw aways were when he had less coverage than needed and used good judgement in throwing away. So to me that makes sense
Wouldn’t that be removing one attempt rather than one completion?
It would in some (not all) ways mimic baseball stats, which remove an at-bat for a walk. One difference is that the quarterback can often make a choice to tuck the ball and take a sack instead of slinging and hoping, so the situation is partially in his control…
That is how I presented it. it would remove an attempt.
So in the case I presented, instead of 29 attempts, it would be 25 attempts (allowing for 4 throw aways).
Vrabel is strong on discipline, situational football, player development, and creating a winning spirit and culture. He is a Belichick product and can be a tough coach. One of his marching orders however was not to over-coach Maye. I think Belichick was guilty of that with Mac Jones.
IMO, one phrase that you hear infrequently in pro-sports probably applies to the Patriots . “They can because they think they can.”
Interesting comment. Makes sense. But Vrabel has heart too. BB is a bit weak on that level. It didn’t show as clearly until he started to lose and got frustrated. He needed a scapegoat and unfortunately jones was it.
Harsh? Maybe. But I’ll never support what he did.
Agree 100%
Thanks, TK!
Thanks, TK.
Thanks Tk
Reviewed 12z info … once again, no changes – same forecast carries forward.
I was just coming to say there has been hardly any comments about weather today. Sad to be in such a boring stretch of weather. Also know there is not a darn thing any of us can do about it.
I could say a lot, but it would be complaining and that can become a bore. 🙂 🙂 🙂
It looks like a couple glorified frontal passages this weekend as TK has been expecting. Nothing really comes together until it is too far off shore.
The models do indeed look more active after Jan 20 (again as TK has been expecting) so going to have to remain patient a little longer…
I don’t do well with patience. :-). I will do my best though.
Ah ha. Now I know why we are friends. Patience definitely isn’t my middle name.
Managed a follow up to the pat’s success….wordle in 2. I agree with the earlier post that tomorrow it will be 6
Philip, to answer your question from earlier, the # is not correct.
Boston’s last 6-inch-or-greater snowall was an 8.5 inch snowfall on February 25 2022, 1417 days ago.
Managed a follow up to the pat’s success….wordle in 2. I agree with the earlier post that tomorrow it will be 6.
Sorry about the duplicate post. Got it in 2…shared it in 2.
Excellent, Mr Conductor !
In the slightly longer range, the time periods of January 22-25 and 27-29 have my attention.
Congrats on picking 4 winners! I know you only bet $10K on each game but still it’s a nice win!! 🙂
Thanks. I’ll take 4 out of 5. Tonight I expect to make it 5 for 6.
I almost swept it, if not for that Bills “two minute drill”.
It was interesting that in the first 3 games of wildcard weekend, the winning team was losing with 2 minutes to go, and all 3 came back to win.
The Eagles had the chance to continue that string of last 2 minute comebacks, and blew it.
Maybe that is when the 6 inch snowfall will happen for Boston.