DAYS 1-5 (APRIL 30 – MAY 4)
Low pressure moving through the region and redeveloping overhead, though remaining weak, means rain tapers to drizzle and clouds hang on today, with cool temperatures. A clearing trend begins tonight but as we move through Friday and Saturday, the first two days of May, upper level low pressure over our region creates an unstable atmosphere, so any sun cooks up clouds and a few of these can produce showers, although the vast majority of the time will be rain-free in any given locations. Later Saturday night and early Sunday a surface low will move quickly southeast of our region, but can be close enough to bring its rain shield into at least southeastern MA and RI for several hours. Still have to nail that detail down but keep in mind that a little extra wet weather may occur for part of the weekend, favoring southeastern areas. That scoots away and by Monday, high pressure shifts south of the region promoting dry weather and a slight warm-up.
TODAY: Cloudy. Rain, tapering off to a few showers and areas of drizzle by early afternoon. Highs 47-54, coolest coast. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.
TONIGHT: Breaking clouds. Patchy fog. Lows 40-47. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.
FRIDAY: Clouds and intervals of sun. A pop up shower possible. Highs 52-59. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.
FRIDAY NIGHT: Variably cloudy. A shower possible evening. Lows 43-50. Wind W 5-15 MPH.
SATURDAY: Some sun / lots of clouds. A pop up shower possible. Highs 53-60. Wind W 5-15 MPH.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Clouds increase. Chance of rain overnight RI and southeastern MA. Lows 42-49. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.
SUNDAY: Cloudy start with a rain chance southeastern areas, then a clearing trend. Highs 56-63. Wind NE backing to NW 5-15 MPH, may be briefly stronger over Cape Cod.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Clearing. Lows 40-47. Wind NW to W 5-15 MPH.
MONDAY: Sunny to partly cloudy. Highs 60-67 but likely cooler South Coast / Cape Cod. Wind W to SW 5-15 MPH.
DAYS 6-10 (MAY 5-9)
Unsettled weather potentials May 5 and May 7 look rather minor in an overall dry and seasonable pattern much of next week.
DAYS 11-15 (MAY 10-14)
Cooler overall, some unsettled weather favors early to mid period. Many details to work out with some type of blocking pattern likely to be in place.
Good morning and thank you TK
47 here
Ocean: 47
Wordle: 6
Thanks TK !
Wordle: 4 (made the train today, anyway) 🙂
Ground is damp, but in the long run, we really lost out on a rain opportunity.
4 is good! I occupy the caboose again. I am playing terribly lately.
You’ll get going again !!
By the 2nd guess, I had the last 2 letters in the correct spot and that kind of narrowed things down.
ZILCH on 1st word yet again!!!!
No letters in position until the 4th guess. I thought I had it in 5, but NOPE, wordle would NOT play along. FInally got it on guess 6.
No letters on first for me either. I’m betting you and I had the same second to last guess
It seems we all go thru spurts. Good that you made the train
5 today, another tough one
Thank you TK!
I join Tom with a 4 for Wordle.
Welcome !!
Good job.
Very nice 4s to you both.
Thank you TK!
Great job Wordlers, I slid on the train with a 5.
Nice 5. May I please join you.
Wordle 5
Nice Sue and Vicki !!
Nice 5s for you both.
Yes please!!! Perhaps we shall enjoy some Mint Juleps in anticipation of the Derby. 🙂
Absolutely. A favorite of mine.
Thank you, TK. Up a degree from our low of 45
Off to Hopkinton in a bit to have my stitches out. It’s a treat cause doctor is next to my favorite fish monger, so I’ll pick up lobster and more
Good luck !!!
Thank you. Hoping it doesn’t hurt too much. If it does, I may need two lobsters
MA Drought Map as of this past Tuesday. About 88% of the state has some level of drought up from 77% last week. Most of it is in the D0 (abnormally dry) category as opposed to D1 (moderate drought). Hydrologists are not sounding alarm bells but there is concern.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?MA
Thank you.
NOT getting any better either.
Pop up showers and drizzle aren’t going provide much of a fix.
Nope.
A few more showers rolling in.
https://radar.weather.gov/station/KBOX/standard
49 here.
Thanks TK
https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/KBOX_loop.gif
This is good !
We need this !!
Not going to be a lot, but hopefully can wring out at least .10 and .25
Anything and everything we can get!
Thank you, TK.
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=gfs&p=sfct-imp&rh=2026043000&fh=162&r=us_ne&dpdt=&mc=
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=ecmwf_full&p=sfct-imp&rh=2026043000&fh=138&r=us_ne&dpdt=&mc=
Could it be ???? A day of spring temps ???
Governor Healey, declare a special holiday for next Tuesday and the school day counts too 🙂 🙂 🙂
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=gfs&p=sfct-imp&rh=2026043000&fh=138&r=us_ne&dpdt=&mc=
SHOULD BE!!!! Look at the date!@()#)(*!@()*#()!@*)(#*!)@(*
🙂
Still more showers rolling through.
To be honest, I “think” we are getting a bit more rain than
we expected. 🙂
Maybe it just looks like more on radar.
As of 11Am LOGAN has about 0.10 inch is all.
0.17 in Sutton when I left
Steady rain in Hopkinton
Just barely 50 here.
Back home stitchless. It was easy peasy.
50 with 0.24 in the bucket
yay
❤️
Thanks, TK!
53 here, Logan 0.17 inch so far.
.06 in Marshfield.
I could see on radar the briefly steadier echoes basically going northwest of us.
Well, enough to make some puddles.
We’ll take it in this dry pattern.
Well, next Tuesday hanging on in the 12z runs for 60s and 70s and then following that, looks like its 5 step backwards.
Wet by no means at all, but a trof re-energizing and holding fort over the Great Lakes and northeast with potentially 50s !!!!!! during May 5th through the 12th.
Meanwhile, at 48-52 degrees N Latitude in British Columbia, it may well be in the 70s, 80s and 90s.
I protest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May I join you!!! I’ll make the signs!!!!
I’ll be leading the counter-protest, seeing how I love how spring works here in this part of the world. 🙂
Today is wonderful! I absolutely love the feeling of drizzle hitting my face. And yes I am 100% serious.
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https://stormhq.blog/2026/04/30/weekend-outlook-may-1-4-2026/
Hi hi HI .. no real changes. Maybe leaning a bit faster and a little further offshore with that middle-of-weekend quasi-threat.
That’s about it!
We get a milder treat part of next week, but the overall regime is still cooler ahead.
Up to 55 here.
Boston is going to land probably 0.1 to 0.4F below normal for April.
Over / under= -0.25F
An unprecedentedly cold month – I knew it!
🙂
“Has summer actually never shown up? Because I feel like this is going to be the year.” -Boston news anchor
What is this deal that they keep acting like we’ve had the worst weather of all time this spring? WE. HAVE. NOT.
It’s running MILDER and DRIER than normal. Fact!
We have had far more “miserable” springs than we are having in 2026.
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