DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 27 – MAY 1)
You’ll hear the word “blocking” often in forecast discussions during the next couple weeks. That is our predominant pattern, and while the players shift around a little, the regime is generally locked in, most certainly for this 5 day period as we move through the last few days of April and arrive at May late this week. However, as I have said many times, “blocking” does not equate automatically to “stormy”. This set-up features high pressure parked near Greenland and low pressure over Atlantic Canada. This slows incoming systems from the west where there is still progression in the pattern. As we saw this weekend, low pressure systems are often forced southeastward, sometimes to graze our region and sometimes miss it. On occasion you can get one of them to come in here. Will that happen this coming week? Yes. However, before we get there, let’s go over what takes place before that. Despite it being a blocking pattern, the weather system sitting over us today and Tuesday as high pressure, bringing nice weather. During Tuesday, the low pressure area well to our east does a loop westward and its circulation closes in by Tuesday night and Wednesday, turning the broad scale wind flow to onshore and bringing in low clouds, and maybe some drizzle especially to coastal areas. So after we have bright sun today and at least most of Tuesday, we go back to the grey. Meanwhile, we’ll be eyeing a low pressure system approaching from the west, slowing, and occluding, followed by a redevelopment that will track slowly across our region on Thursday. This brings us a shot of beneficial rainfall Wednesday night and especially Thursday. I’m still not 100% sold that this will become a solid rain event for the region, as many times we’ve seen guidance paint them this way a few days away only to have them turn out somewhat disappointing. Regardless, what happens late week is a reconfiguration of the upper pattern so that by Friday the upper low to our east is gone, high pressure from Greenland retrogrades into eastern Canada, and a new upper low from the west parks over the US Northeast, meaning cool weather with pop-up showers to start May.
TODAY: Sunny. Highs 55-62 coast, 60-67 inland. Wind variable up to 10 MPH with coastal sea breezes.
TONIGHT: Clear. Lows 37-44. Wind NE under 10 MPH.
TUESDAY: Sunshine – may give way to clouds in eastern coastal areas before day’s end. Highs 55-62, coolest coast. Wind NE 5-15 MPH.
TUESDAY NIGHT: Partly to mostly cloudy. Lows 37-44. Wind E up to 10 MPH.
WEDNESDAY: Cloudy. Patchy drizzle possible. Highs 48-55, coolest coast. Wind E to NE 5-15 MPH.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Cloudy. Periods of rain overnight. Lows 42-49. Wind E up to 10 MPH.
THURSDAY: Cloudy. Periods of rain. Highs 46-53. Wind SE 5-15 MPH shifting back to NE.
THURSDAY NIGHT: Clouds break. Rain ends. Patchy fog. Lows 38-45. Wind NE to N up to 10 MPH.
FRIDAY: Partly to mostly cloudy. Chance of showers. Highs 50-57. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.
DAYS 6-10 (MAY 2-6)
Blocking pattern with upper trough over the Northeast, meaning below normal temperatures and occasionally unsettled weather, but dry most of the time.
DAYS 11-15 (MAY 7-11)
Similar overall pattern. Wet weather chances may increase, but uncertain of that this far in advance.
https://stormhq.blog/2026/04/27/weekly-outlook-april-27-may-3-2026/
Thanks Tk , have a nice day everybody.
you too, SSK !
Tom you’ll be getting a message today lol
I hope you do too SSK
Good moeni d and thank you TK
47 up from 39
Ocean: 46
WORDLE: Another FAIL as I was hopelessly lost!!!! NOT liking this game right now.
I’m stuck after 3 guesses. But you are not alone. Two FB friends have already said it’s a tough word.
Thanks TK !
I also failed wordle this morning.
Had the 3 middle letters and, once I saw the word after my 6th guess, I was thinking, of course !!
Oh well, tomorrow !! 🙂
Oh boy. Doesn’t bode well for me. I’ll put it aside for a bit
Well, we do have 4 weeks of school to Memorial Day weekend, so, I guess the positive in this pattern is, its great school weather.
Today does look like a nice Spring day !
Yesterday was lovely here too.
Agreed !
Looked like 95% of New England had an awesome spring weather day, yesterday !
We were a little slow to that party.
I don’t think the clouds cleared til about 4pm and with the clouds and light onshore wind, we didn’t get much above the low 50s.
I did see that just inland though, a lot more sun and earlier and into the 60s. 🙂
Thank you, TK. 38 up 5 degrees from our low. Thick frost on the cars around 5:00.
Walked away and the word popped into my head. So weird when that happens
Wordle 4.
Wordle 1,773 4/6
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. Hmm it let me post this
Hehe. No it didn’t
Nice 4, especially for this word! Well done.
Super, Vicki !!
Thank you both. I have soft drinks and pizza for a party in car 4
https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/SECTOR/ne/GEOCOLOR/20261171236_GOES19-ABI-ne-GEOCOLOR-2400×2400.jpg
Love the high sun angle for giving even better detail.
Hoping to see that southern Canada continue to melt and recede.
Southern Canada SNOW and ICE
Up to 58 here.
btw, made 59 here yesterday and barring a strong sea breeze, very likely to exceed that today. 🙂
Great to get that word in 4 Vicki!
I got it in 5.
Thank you. Great 5 also for a tough word.
Nice !
Of course Logan has a sea breeze, but the good thing is that it is not too strong at only 8 mph. Logan currently at 54.
AND the ocean temperature is creeping up which can’t hurt.
Keep up this sunshine and we’ll be fine. Take it away and all bets are off.
Perfectly said !
I’m going with 66 for my over under.
While I’m at it …..can someone please explain what over under means
Song for the day
https://youtu.be/pcavVs7a0w4?si=4Bid3gm8U4uJzZSs
I like this version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxhLVMhsbAE&list=RDwxhLVMhsbAE&start_radio=1
So, if you bet on how many points Jayson Tatum will score in a game and his over/under is 27 pts.
If you take the over, he has to score 28 or more
If you take the under, he has to score 26 or less.
(I don’t bet at all, because I worry that if I ever started, I wouldn’t stop)
You are so right about that. I can’t imagine how many people are or are about to be in big trouble with gambling with all of the new gambling apps around that make it way too easy to make bets.
I stay the hell away from that!!!! It’s just to easy to get in serious trouble.
Thank you. And we are already closing in on 60 so I suspect I’m going down in flames
DING DING DING just made 60 here. NICE!!!!
Nice !!
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector_band.php?sat=G19§or=se&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24
This is great for southern GA, which was struggling with fires due to drought.
The stratus moving NE to SW tells you its cooler, there’s some moisture in the air from the Atlantic and that blazing spring sun is muted.
Sea breeze is getting stronger. Now 13 mph at Logan.
Creeping in here as we’re back down to 59.