DAYS 1-5 (MAY 15-19)
Upper level low pressure spins over the region today as surface low pressure slowly departs to our east. Other than a lingering patch of drizzle or a few showers in the region, today will end up drier than yesterday, though a bit cooler. Big changes loom for the weekend, but if you want fair and warmer weather it’s good news, because that’s exactly what we see as the wind flow turns west to southwest in response to high pressure building off the Mid Atlantic Coast. A back-door cold front driven by an eastern Canadian high pressure area will cool it down briefly on Monday, before the high to the south regains control and introduces the feel of summer by Tuesday.
TODAY: Lots of clouds. Patchy drizzle and the chance of a shower. Highs 55-62. Wind E shifting to N 5-15 MPH.
TONIGHT: Gradual clearing. Lows 45-52. Wind N shifting to W up to 10 MPH.
SATURDAY: Sunny to partly cloudy. Highs 63-70 South Coast, 71-78 elsewhere. Wind W to SW 5-15 MPH.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 48-55. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.
SUNDAY: Partly cloudy to mostly sunny. Highs 68-75 South Coast, 76-83 elsewhere. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 50-57. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.
MONDAY: Sunny to partly cloudy. Highs 62-69 coast, 70-77 inland. Wind shifting to NE 5-15 MPH.
MONDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 52-59. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.
TUESDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 75-82 South Coast, 83-90 elsewhere. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.
DAYS 6-10 (MAY 20-24)
Summer feel May 20 but with a shower and thunderstorm chance as a cold front approaches the area. Behind this front comes fair, more seasonable weather later next week. Early to mid portion of the Memorial Day Weekend shows fair weather followed by a shower chance as a disturbance arrives, but details on that are TBD.
DAYS 11-15 (MAY 25-29)
Overall pattern leans dry over wet, cool over warm, but some late-spring uncertainty is present. Watch updates for late month in the days ahead.
Thanks TK
This day in weather history 8 years ago
https://www.weather.gov/okx/SevereEvent051518
Thank you, JimmyJames!
Thanks JJ !
Perhaps it fizzled in SE Mass, as I don’t recall this one.
Thank you, TK. We are up five degrees from our low of 42 with blue sky and sunshine.
Still bright sunshine but TKs clouds are starting to move in
Good morning and thank you TK
53 up from 51
Ocean: 51
WORDLE; 5
Nice JPD!!
Nice JpDave !
Ocean above 50F, 🙂
Indeed. We are getting there.
Wordle at midnight was a touch of midnight madness. The word came to me out of nowhere.
Wordle 3
https://ibb.co/ZpBxfXzj
Wonderful
Awesome and I guess so !!
Thank you both. Can’t take much credit as I have no clue where the word came from.
Thanks TK !
Wordle: 3
Hoping the atmosphere dries later this afternoon and any drizzle ends. Graduation starts at 4pm and prom a little after that. Thankfully, my awesome in-laws are going to watch the prom red carpet stuff where our youngest will be and we’ll be headed to xfinity center in Mansfield to watch our oldest graduate.
Yay. Very nice 3!
Wow!!! Great job.
Thank you, both 🙂
Hope all works out well!!!!
Thanks, it will.
Drizzle or not shine 🙂 🙂 🙂
Darn. Both the same day. That isn’t easy. Prayers the sky clears. Awesome in-laws for sure
3 beautiful days first, Saturday-Monday.
Tuesday, regional wide, continues to offer an opportunity of 90F across a large part of the region.
Cool front seems to be slowing now on Wednesday, so maybe a smaller area has a chance at 90F readings.
Of course, SE Mass, closer to the SW flow probably has 80F as a goal and cooler still on cape and the islands and the immediate south coast.
Last night Pete had 90 and 91 for Boston, Tuesday & Wednesday
which are also the records for those dates.
Just too soon for this. Btw, looking at the dps for those 2 days shows mid-upper 60s. YUCK!!!
HUMIDITY!! FINALLY!! So tired of these low winter feeling dewpoints. Sorry JP Dave!
Thank you TK!
Stuck at 55 here.
Wordle 5. Nice job on the 3s!
Nice 5
Nice !
Wow – there were some amazing Wordle performances today!
I, on the other hand, will be spending the day standing next to the tracks.
we will toss a line to you.
The Market Basket snow pile lives on!
https://ibb.co/zTJgN2Rs
That’s great !!!!!!
It’s Opening Day for the Eastern Pacific hurricane season.
down to 53 here. BRRRRRR
Thank you TK!
Tom – hope the prom and graduation go well and you should be so very proud.
Wordle: 3
Great job
Thank you, TK.
The dreaded words “90s” and “humidity” have entered the chat.
I don’t like humidity even when it’s 65, let alone over 90.
I used to like high dewpoints. But that was decades ago, as in the 1970s.
Agree 100%. Getting ready to have ACs installed BEFORE Tuesday!!!! YUUUUUCCCCCCCCKKKKKK!!!!!!
Won’t be as bad as it’s being made to sound.
MSM’s job is now to hype. Per the news directors.
52F and a light breeze!
Deflating some of the overblown talk about “the heat next week”.
1) High temps in the upper 80s to near 90 in May, not entirely unusual. Yes, that would be “well above normal”, but keep in mind where the normals come from.
2) A high temp of 88, for example, means the high temp is 88. It also means that most of the day is lower than 88. That’s not particularly brutal. See #3.
3) Ah yes, the dew point. Probably lower to middle 60s at peak (yes, the ECMWF over-forecasts them at this range, so keep that in mind too please). That may be enough to feel, but it’s also not oppressive. And it’s not coming with highs “in the 90s” and temps at 90+ for hours on end. Not the same as a heatwave kind of day, so let’s keep that in perspective.
Totally over the media’s treatment of weather we get on a routine basis. LOOK OUT! Here comes the scorching heat of summer!!! (Yeah, not really.)
Keeping it real, as always. Gonna speak my mind, as always. ‘Tis my blog after all. 🙂
Carry on!
You may be right, but for sensitive people, 88 with dp 62 or 63, is very bad. Not as bad as 90s with dps 70s, but bad enough for sensitive people. Please keep that in mind as you rant. 🙂
Yes, indeed.
I think that both things can be accurate: TK’s description of the overblown hype AND people’s sensitivity to higher dewpoints and high temps.
What does look apparent from the mid- and long-range forecasts is that we’re on quite the rollercoaster between now and Memorial Day weekend. Of course, this is not unusual. Still, it’s worth noting. Today it’s like Edinburgh. Next Tuesday, Manila. Next Saturday, Amsterdam (on a sunny day).
Leaning cooler again end of May / early June.
Oh I’m definitely right. And I obviously know that some people are more sensitive. I know many myself. However, hype is still hype. Making things sound more dramatic than they are is media’s m.o., for obvious reasons, but just as much as you hate the east wind in March to early May, I hate their m.o., and that opinion ain’t gonna change either!
By typical standards, early next week will be the typical early-season burst of very warm to hot weather and slightly higher humidity, followed by a quick return to seasonable conditions.
Thanks, TK.
Never a dull moment in Boston/SNE weather-wise.
Nature is unforgiving.
On my run, I saw a Canada Goose couple with 4 goslings Monday, 2 on Wednesday, 1 on Thursday, and 0 today. I believe it was the same couple, as I saw them in roughly the same spot. Interestingly, the 2 adults were still together, perhaps looking in vain for their last remaining gosling. The muskrats that roam throughout the lagoon are the likely predator.