Tuesday May 26 2026 Forecast (7:24AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (MAY 26-30)

Like last week, it’s Tuesday and Wednesday that win the warm award for the week – another summer preview as we get closer to the start of the meteorological version of the season. High pressure to our south pumps warmer air into the region today into Wednesday before a cold front cuts that off later Wednesday. The front will have limited moisture to work with so widespread showers and storms are not likely – just isolated to scattered activity late Wednesday, otherwise it’s dry weather for these two days. Thursday’s weather is cooler and there can be a pop up shower with an upper low in the vicinity. A stronger upper low and associated surface disturbance will drop southeastward out of Canada in the eastern trough position of an evolving omega block (high pressure middle of US, low pressure western US). This feature will bring us some wet weather later Friday into early Saturday, based on current timing. Details of this system still have to be worked out and will be done so over the next few blog updates!

TODAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 67-74 South Coast / Cape Cod, 75-82 elsewhere. Wind W to SW 5-15 MPH.

TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Patchy fog low elevations. Lows 54-61. Wind SW up to 10 MPH.

WEDNESDAY: Partly sunny. Chance of a late-day shower or thunderstorm, favoring areas north of I-90. Highs 70-77 South Coast, 78-85 elsewhere. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. An evening shower possible south of I-90. Lows 52-59. Wind N 5-15 MPH.

THURSDAY: Partly sunny. A pop-up shower possible. Highs 63-70. Wind N 5-15 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Variably cloudy. A shower possible. Lows 51-58. Wind N 5-15 MPH.

FRIDAY: Lots of clouds. Shower chances increase. Highs 61-68. Wind N 5-15 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Cloudy. Showers likely. Chance of a thunderstorm. Lows 50-57. Wind variable 5-15 MPH.

SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy with morning showers. Partly cloudy afternoon. Highs 62-69. Wind variable to N 5-15 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (MAY 31 – JUNE 4)

Upper low shifts east far enough for a mostly fair weather finish to May but still close enough that a pop-up shower or t-storm cannot be completely ruled out. General pattern to start June keeps New England under the eastern upper low member of an omega block. Pattern is on the cooler side of average with a couple shower chances.

DAYS 11-15 (JUNE 5-9)

Indications are for cooler than average but also mostly dry with limited shower chances during this period as the omega block gradually weakens.

78 thoughts on “Tuesday May 26 2026 Forecast (7:24AM)”

  1. Good morning and thank you TK

    61 up from 56

    Ocean: 54

    Wordle; mundane 5. Seems I am stuck in the 5 car lately, but at least I have been boarding the train.

        1. Nice SClarke and JPD.

          Joining you in the 5 car.

          This was tricky with both 1st and 4th spaces giving you choices.

  4. Thanks, TK.

    As I’ve mentioned previously, the record-breaking heat in England (especially in the south of the region) and parts of France is quite impressive.

    While the heatwave is unusual for several reasons, including the time of year, when all is said and done the month of May will be remembered not only for the extreme heat (by English standards) but also the long stretch of cool weather that preceded it. Regarding the heat, relief is on the way by the weekend in the form of normal temperatures.

    So, both the Northeast and Northwestern Europe have been experiencing a bit of a rollercoaster. THE big difference is the gradual nature of their rollercoaster, both on the way up and the way down, and our MUCH faster ascent followed by a considerably quicker descent.

    1. London and Paris are both currently reporting 88F.

      I did see on the news, the heat is making the clay courts in the French Open play a little quicker than usual.

  6. Thank you,TK. Up to 60 from a 50 low. 59 DP

    Granddaughter heads to Children’s today. Will be happy to hear what Mass Eye dr there says.

  8. Tom, no doubt it’s hot this week in Paris and London. And that is impacting a lot of things, including the famous Roland Garros clay courts.

    I think that the London heat is more impressive. Paris experiences heat more often than London. And I can’t recall there ever being a sustained period of heat – above 86F – in London in May.

  10. Tom, thanks for sharing the 500mb ridge over Western Europe. Yesterday, I posted satellite imagery. You could see areas of low pressure hitting a wall as they approached Ireland. One then spun north, east of Iceland.

    1. Thank you for bringing it to our attention ! I love following the weather anywhere on the planet.

  11. Very sad news this morning.   Daughter just called and they had to put granddaughters horse, Hope, down this morning from colic.   They were at the barn all night so will reschedule appt at Childrens. My daughter said they just don’t know what they’ll do without her in their lives.

    4. Oh Vicki, I am so very sorry to hear this news. My heart goes out to your daughter and granddaughter.

  12. Wind at Logan is around to North and just a bit East of North at 6mph. I suspect Logan shifts to sea breeze soon.

    72 there now.

    72 here as well.

  15. THERE IT IS!!!

    Logan now has a SE sea breeze at 9 mph.

    Temperature: 72 If the sea breeze keeps up, Logan does NOT make 80. Here, it depends upon how strong it gets and IF it penetrates this far. Also, if it stays SE, It won’t have nearly the same effect here as it it were East or NE.

    Currently 74 here.

  16. Vicki, I am sorry to hear about the horse. In The Netherlands, horses are considered noble (“edelijk”). They’re put on a pedestal. In fact, horses are the only animal with human-designated names for parts of the body, such as head, mouth and leg. In Dutch, animals’ mouths are called bekken; humans’ are called monden. Humans have hoofden (heads); animals have koppen. Human legs are called benen; animal legs are poten. BUT, horses are THE special animal. They have hoofden, monden, and benen, just like humans.

    2. Thank you. I knew some of that but not all and will pass this to my daughter and granddaughter. Daughter’s last horse was a Swedish warmblood and was a true love.

    4. My granddaughter wanted to go to the beach so they headed to your area Tom and all south shore whw family. The ocean is so calming

  17. Vicki, I am very sorry to hear about the news you shared! My heart goes out to your daughter and granddaughter.

  21. With this high sun angle and little cloudiness along with a sea breeze has the ocean temperature up to 57.

  23. Hi all… Mid afternoon check-in before I write a t-storm summary for one of my social media pages. 🙂

    Today: Forecast working out well. Temps mostly right in expected ranges. Fitchburg went a little over it.

    Wednesday: No changes. Very warm day, but limited moisture with cold front means not a lot of shower coverage.

    Thursday: No changes. Mostly fair, cooler, but can’t rule out an instability shower.

    Friday: Guidance today trended a bit slower with arrival of upper low, so daylight hours may stay dry. Cooler than Thursday.

    Weekend: Upper low dominates. It’s a small but potent system. Saturday will not be a rainy day, but it will likely be the wetter of the 2 days with more dominant cloud cover and more widespread shower coveage, whereas Sunday ends up as more of a sun / cloud mix with scattered activity. Can’t rule out a cold-air-aloft driven t-storm with hail, depending on the exact set-up. This would be more likely Sunday with more diurnal sun fuel.

    Next week: Below normal temps. Below normal precipitation.

    The week after: A slight up-tick in both temps and rain chances.

    That is all for now!

    2. I was there yesterday too in the early evening.

      I got lucky in that the removal was delayed due to weather, so they kept them up until today. This allowed me to get a very large set of images from many angles and lighting conditions, including at sunset.

  27. Logan: Wind shifted to west, dew point dropped 3 degrees, temp rose to 84. Logan loves its west wind for maximum warmth. 🙂

      1. Well, that’s not where I was going with this. Just showing how a slightly different wind direction at a given location can sometimes make a big different in certain parameters. The educational aspect of WHW. 🙂

        I don’t really think anything about the area sucks. It’s just a variable area, so you have variable conditions based on the details of what’s going on. 🙂

        Part of what makes me love it as much as I do.

        1. I know where you were going. I just think it is a god-awful place to keep Boston’s weather records. Very often not indicative of conditio s in the rest of the city. I’LL go to my grave with this one.

          1. Well you won’t get an argument from me on that. It’s not representative, but it is what they use, so we have to go with it (for now).

              1. Not that I am aware of, but given some of the refining NWS is doing, I wouldn’t totally rule it out.

            2. As I’ve said many times here, Boston Common (or even Public Garden) would make the perfect location to represent the city for weather records.

              Of course since I no longer live there, I am not quite as passionate about that as I used to be. 😉

                1. No thanks. Boston has become even more violent since I left. Not just the neighborhoods but the T as well. I used to love public transit, but no more.

                  In fact, there was a shooting directly across the street from my former house about 2 months after I moved here to Quincy.

  29. A little more on that upper low late week…

    Same system that can produce accumulating snow in the mountains can also produce strong t-storms in a portion of SNE, depending on its track. I’ll be watching that. Eyeing Friday afternoon / evening.

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