Monday March 2 2026 Forecast (6:57AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (MARCH 2-6)

A frigid start to your day today with arctic air in place, and while we have about a 20-degree temperature rise during the day, that only brings high temps into the 20s, which is well below normal for early March. Dry weather will prevail as high pressure builds into the region. This high will be overhead tonight allowing another frigid night as we see radiational cooling, but things change quickly on Tuesday as the high slides offshore and low pressure approaches from the southwest. We should have the opportunity to view a selenelion total lunar eclipse (eclipsed moon, reddish in the western sky just before setting, while the sun comes over the horizon in the east) early Tuesday morning before clouds move in and thicken rapidly during the day, leading to an episode of precipitation – snow to rain, with some sleet and freezing rain possible during the transition, and some snow accumulation expected prior to the transition. This will take place as a frontal boundary moves slowly to the north across our region through the night, then slides back to the south overnight after the low pressure wave moves by and drier air ends the precipitation. This will lead to a precipitation-free day on Wednesday with some partial sun possible with a little bubble of high pressure passing by. The front will come back our way on Thursday with clouds thickening again, and rain at night as it turns a little milder, but just as low pressure is set to move through from the west that night into Friday, a push from eastern Canadian high pressure will send the boundary back to the south and colder air will come back, so our event that starts as rain can end up having some sleet and freezing rain involved in it during Friday before it all tapers off later in the day. Additional details will be worked out regarding this system over the next few days.

TODAY: A few passing clouds Outer Cape Cod until midday and some high clouds crossing the southern sky filtering the sun South Coast, otherwise sunny. Highs 23-30. Wind NW 5-15 MPH shifting to SW late.

TONIGHT: Clear. Lows -5 to +2 inland / valleys, 3-10 coast / urban areas. Wind calm.

TUESDAY: Clouding over. Snow/sleet arrives southwest to northeast afternoon. Highs 32-39. Wind calm becoming SE up to 10 MPH.

TUESDAY NIGHT: Cloudy with rain in the evening – pockets of freezing rain possible in some locations. Temperatures steady 32-39 early then rise slightly. Wind variable up to 10 MPH early, becoming W late.

WEDNESDAY: Clouds break for sun. Fog patches early morning. Highs 42-49. Wind W up to 10 MPH becoming variable then SE by late-day.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Partly to mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows 32-39. Wind SE up to 10 MPH.

THURSDAY: Mostly cloudy. Rain arrives by late-day. Highs 42-49. Wind S up to 10 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Cloudy. Rain likely but pockets of sleet and freezing rain possible southern NH and northern MA overnight. Lows 32-39. Wind shifting to NE up to 10 MPH from north to south.

FRIDAY: Cloudy with rain/ice/sleet morning-midday (freezing/frozen precipitation most likely inland and north). Breaking clouds possible later. Highs 35-42. Wind NE to N up to 10 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (MARCH 7-11)

Frontal boundary pushes back north with milder air and a chance of rain showers on Saturday March 7. Low pressure moving by sends the front back to the south again Sunday March 8 with rain shower chance followed by clearing – mild start then colder later. Dry, chilly early next week before another warm-up occurs toward mid week. The switch from Standard Time to Daylight Saving Time takes place on March 8 (2:00 a.m. EST becomes 3:00 a.m. EDT).

DAYS 11-15 (MARCH 12-16)

Briefly above normal temperatures with unsettled weather early in the period marking a switch back to near to below normal temperatures during mid March.

54 thoughts on “Monday March 2 2026 Forecast (6:57AM)”

  2. Shiri Spear has been promoted to Chief Meteorologist at Boston’s Channel 25. A well-deserved honor. I have already sent her congratulations!

    She and I had a nice chat at last autumn’s SNE Weather Conference. Very nice, very smart, great meteorologist! After all, she is a graduate of UMass Lowell. 🙂

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  10. Not for nothing, but the 6Z RRFS-A presents a very WINTRY solution to tomorrow evening’s system. SNOW to Sleet. Little or no rain from Boston North.

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      1. Yes 🙂 🙂 🙂

        And from me ….. first name? How do I turn this projector on? What time does class end?

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  18. Thanks, TK!

    As a hockey fan and a proud U-Mass Lowell alum, you must be so proud of the play of Connor Hellebuyck, especially in the Gold Medal game!!!

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  19. I tried, but I did not see the Space X rocket last night. I stood on my east-facing front porch at 10 pm-ish with two cameras. I am not sure if it was at all visible here. If it was, it was blocked by our neighbor’s home and surrounding trees as it was so low on the eastern horizon.

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    1. I also stood outside looking up expectantly. It was a good time for viewing Jupiter (I think!). For a while I fooled myself that Jupiter was a rocket and that I saw it moving. 🙂

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    1. No Guess. You should do what I do. When it snows, I shovel off our deck. Of course, ours is on the 2nd floor. I do it to save on repairs of the deck. 🙂

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  23. SClarke: The same thing happened to me, but, for me, it wasn’t Jupiter. I was excited and ready to take photos of the Space X rocket before I realized it was an airplane making its final descent at Logan! 🙂

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  24. TK – I hope you didn’t think my question about the moon was a stupid one. I just wasn’t certain if the moon moved across the sky every day from east to west like the sun does. I remember some years ago I was walking home around late afternoon/early evening and noticed a big full moon in the “western” sky.

    Thanks again! 🙂

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    1. The moon cannot be in the western sky in the evening if it’s full. Only the east evening, west toward dawn.

      Are you sure you were not looking at the sun one of the times we had thick wildfire smoke?

      During some recent events, I noticed people posting the sun and labeling it as the moon during those smokey sunrises & sunsets.

      Because the full moon has to be completely opposite the sun, it can ONLY appear in the east at sunset and west at sunrise. It’s not possible to exist any other way.

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      1. No, it definitely was not in the east as I was walking maybe towards the southwest at the time. It was getting fairly dark and I did think it strange. I was not imagining things. I thought perhaps the moon sometimes does funky things.

        Could the moon have risen (in the east) unusually early that day while the sun was out and by the time I observed it, it was on its normal path to the west?

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        1. There is no physically possible way you saw a full moon in the southwest late in the afternoon. It’s literally impossible. A full moon HAS to be opposite the sun. It’s the only way the entire face of the moon is lit. It’s physically impossible otherwise.

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  25. I took an introductory astronomy class in college. It was held late enough that it was dark. The first test included a drawing of the moon and it gave the direction that you would be looking. It asked if you could ever see the moon looking like that in that direction after sunset. I convinced myself that you couldn’t.

    After the test, I walked out of the building, looked up at the sky, and there was the moon just like it was drawn on the test!

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  26. I think I read somewhere that last night’s launch was SpaceX’s 22nd mission of the year already (and it’s only March 2). I believe there’s a “doubleheader” on Wednesday with launches from Florida and California.

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