Thursday August 6 2026 Forecast (7:18AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (AUGUST 6-10)

Classic Bermuda High pattern is now in place and stays with us throughout the next 5 days. There is a daily chance of pop-up showers and thunderstorms each afternoon and early evening, with placement and coverage dependent on a couple disturbance passing by, as well as boundaries created by previous activity, so pin-pointing such occurrences in advance is not really possible. The advice, especially if you will be outside, is to stay hydrated, take breaks from being in the heat and humidity we’ll have, and keep an eye to the sky or watch radar for shower and thunderstorm activity.

TODAY: Partly cloudy. Isolated to scattered thunderstorms possible from mid afternoon through early evening. Highs 84-91 except 76-83 South Coast, and also can drop back to near 80 at east-facing shores. Dew point 68+. Wind SW up to 10 MPH with coastal sea breezes possible.

TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows 67-74. Dew point 65+. Wind SW up to 10 MPH.

FRIDAY: Mostly sunny to partly cloudy. Isolated to scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms possible. Highs 85-92 except 78-85 coastal areas. Dew point 68+. Wind SW up to 10 MPH but with potential sea breezes in all coastal areas.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Variably cloudy. A shower or thunderstorm is possible early. Patchy fog. Lows 67-74. Dew point 65+. Wind SW up to 10 MPH.

SATURDAY: A sun / cloud mix. A shower or thunderstorm possible in the afternoon. Highs 85-92 except 78-85 coastal areas. Dew point 68+. Wind SW up to 10 MPH but with potential sea breezes in all coastal areas.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. A shower or thunderstorm is possible early. Patchy fog. Lows 67-74. Dew point 65+. Wind SW up to 10 MPH.

SUNDAY: More sun than clouds. An isolated afternoon shower or thunderstorm possible. Highs 85-92 except 78-85 coastal areas. Dew point 68+. Wind SW up to 10 MPH but with potential sea breezes in all coastal areas.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Patchy fog. Lows 67-74. Dew point 65+. Wind SW up to 10 MPH.

MONDAY: A sun / cloud mix. Potential for an afternoon shower or thunderstorm. Highs 85-92, except cooler South Coast / Cape Cod. Dew point 68+. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (AUGUST 11-15)

A more west-to-east flow is introduced by a passing disturbance and frontal system which brings a better shower and thunderstorm chance August 11. Another such system will move through around August 14, based on current timing expectations. Temperatures a little more variable, averaging mostly near normal.

DAYS 11-15 (AUGUST 16-20)

A general west to east flow with a couple passing disturbances bringing shower and t-storm chances. Temperatures slightly variable, averaging fairly close to normal for the period.

130 thoughts on “Thursday August 6 2026 Forecast (7:18AM)”

    2. Kind of typical early to mid August weather, actually.

      And no temperature records will be threatened.

      It’s also the first time we’ll be in the “classic” pattern this summer for more than a few hours. 😉

      1. For sure. Even though it won’t be high heat, 90-92 with high humidity is misery enough.

  7. Thank you TK!

    Wordle: Thrilled to be joining JPD in car 3 today. Hoping everyone boards the train today.

  9. Looks like the MesoWest web site has been hijacked!!!

    Can anyone else get on their site?

    1. One saving grace, the temperature is NOT sky Rocketing up there. Only a very slow gradual rise in temperature, so peak heating won’t be most of the day like it can on intensely hot days.
      None-the-less it is MISERABLE today and the 4 days following as well. GOOD GRIEF!!!!!!

  13. Thanks TK
    Typical August weather. This stretch won’t be as bad as the one that kicked off the month of July. For that stretch extreme heat warnings were posted for multiple days with heat index values 105-110.

  15. Thanks, TK.

    It really is gross outside. I ran about 7 miles. I remember almost nothing from it. I have brain fog in heat and humidity. I am sweating like Niagara Falls right now. Very low bp, high pulse. HH intolerance is how my sibling docs describe it. I do the same loop in winter. I remember everything from those runs. Crisp, cold mornings in the teens and sometimes below. Absolutely clear and beautiful, clean air, frozen Charles, snowbanks along the path. Man I love winter.

      1. I am a masochist. That’s me and all the other runners I saw. I do remember seeing other people on the path. Kind of blurry, though. I call it my hazy summer brain. It lifts in fall. Clearer thoughts. More vigor.

      2. I couldn’t walk 7 in any weather. But don’t want to be outside for even 7 minutes In this

        That said…..my cousin is visiting this afternoon ; and if it doesn’t storm and I’m hoping it doesn’t, we will sit on deck.

            1. remember, just my opinion which often times can be more wishful thinking on my part. 🙂 🙂 🙂

  16. Kelly Ann on WCVB said this morning that the peak of the heat would by far be today and tomorrow. I can hang my hat on that and hope she is right.

  17. dew point up to 74 here!!!
    btw, ALSO at Logan!!!!

    YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@#)!*@(*#()!@*()#*!()@*#)(!*@()#*)!(@*)(

  22. About 60-90 mins ago, a good part of the sky had a mix of fair and towering cumulus.

    A lot of those have cleared out and it’s pretty sunny.

    Hot and humid, I can tell that because the camper with the AC on and off, shows me the difference when we occasionally go in.

    But for sure, in the woods/forest of west central Mass with some lakes here and there, it just doesn’t seem as hot/humid as I know it would feel in the more wide open, concrete, buildings at home. It really does make a difference in the heart of summer being in the woods. I won’t speak to the mosquitoes right after sunset 🙁

  23. I see our favorite reporting location has a light seabreeze.

    Not the seabreeze you want, just adding even more humidity, I think Logan’s DP is 75F

  24. Just had a shower here, almost a downpour. Dropped temp to 86 and raised dp to 76!!!!!

  27. Thanks TK.

    90 here in Hartford with a dewpoint of 74 and heat index of 99. We have officially reached “putrid” levels.

  28. 87/76

    Dark clouds to the west due to a pop-up shower/storm over Seekonk heading in this direction.

  33. The subject of longer stretches of heat came up earlier…

    This info, courtesy SAK, shows Lowell’s longest stretch of days of 90 or higher on record. The winner should come as no surprise… August 1988.

    AUG 1 1988 93 72
    AUG 2 1988 98 73
    AUG 3 1988 100 75
    AUG 4 1988 94 75
    AUG 5 1988 96 76
    AUG 6 1988 91 74
    AUG 7 1988 94 74
    AUG 8 1988 93 72
    AUG 9 1988 94 71
    AUG 10 1988 96 76
    AUG 11 1988 96 78
    AUG 12 1988 96 79
    AUG 13 1988 98 72
    AUG 14 1988 96 73
    AUG 15 1988 96 73

    The last 2 fairly long streaks of 90+ for Lowell were 9 days in 2002 and 7 days in 2013.

  34. My favorite publication which I get a laugh from came out today. The farmers almanac. It is saying the northeast is a tricky forecast. It calling for rain and mixed precipitation for the coast and rounds of heavy wet snow for inland areas in January and February. It goes on to say small shifts in track will make a difference.

    1. I proudly get the old farmers almanac every year.

      I use it for the weather pages with tides, sun declination, length of days, etc.

      I will, over a few weeks of getting it, read everything else, then default to the weather pages I described above.

  35. BZ has a Facebook post, 1 hr old with a few bullet points for fall with the accompanying El Niño.

    I believe the first 2 predictions were rainier times and higher humidity. ( I think)

  37. On this date in 1918, Washington DC set its all-time record high temperature of 106° F. Ironically, London, Ontario, Canada had the same high temperature on the same day.

    In Washington DC this record high would be equaled on July 20 1930. It has never been reached since.

  38. I have a mild gripe with some of the mets – all of them good people – who keep harping on the El Nino effect for this fall and winter: Wet fall, mild winter, stated in rather definitive terms.

    The autumn could very well turn out wetter than normal and winter milder than normal. BUT I don’t think it’s right in any field – meteorology included – to be overly deterministic, meaning giving El Nino a ton of causal properties it doesn’t necessarily have. I’d prefer a softening of the early (!) long-range forecasts to include words such as “suggests,” “likely.” or maybe refer to historical precedents. We all know that weather and the climate depend on multiple variables and confounders, all of the time. Mets can’t simply state on social media or elsewhere on August 6th (!) that “fall will be wet” and “winter will be mild.” Yet this is what I’m often seeing. It bothers me.

    1. If I had to venture a guess, the post made by WBZ was probably initiated by management, and not one meteorologist.

      They probably did a search for El Nino impacts and saw the “average” set of impacts, and went with it. It wouldn’t even surprise me if the meteorology team was barely made aware of it. If you look at the post, the wording (or lack thereof) gives away that it was not written by a WBZ TV weather team member. And the graphic was probably made by an intern.

  41. Does Logan get under 80 tonight?
    My o/u is 75 here. Logan?????
    We have many trees here.
    We shall see.

    1. They only got to 86 (85) today. And given that it’s 79 (78) there now, the answer is 100% yes. 😉

      This air mass is very humid, but it’s not really that hot, at least in terms of how hot we can get at this point in the summer. It’s kind of “typical” for Bermuda High temps.

  42. 85/77. Oh yay.

    Ended up indoors for my cousin’s visit. It was just too hot to sit out. It’s been several years since we’ve seen each other and we grew up darn near closest sisters so what a special time.

  44. Logan dropped to 78 (77) last hour, then went back up to 83 (82) when the wind shifted from east to south.

      1. For their records, they use calendar day. But when you mentioned “tonight”, I just took it at “this particular night” from dusk to dawn. They’ve already been below 80, and they likely will drop to the upper 70s again prior to sunrise.

  45. Random Thinking about temperature swings.

    I know that some of the biggest temperature swings in the US have occurred in Montana in the depths of winter when artic air goes to war with Chinook winds. I do remember in 1980 that the temperature in Great Falls jumped up 50 degrees from something like -35F to +15F in roughly 2 minutes. I also remember that in the 1970’s the temperature in Loma climbed over 100 degrees in a 24 hour period which was a record at the time and might still be.

    I think similar events occurred in South Dakota and Alberta either due to Chinook winds or some wacky LLJ situation. If anyone knows more about this subject, please post. TIA

    I didn’t Google this yet but will on the weekend.

    1. The same deal here.

      I hear some thunder in the distance. It looks like it’s north of us in Townsend and southern NH.

      1. I see on radar. If you’re up to it, please send it this way. Although I think it’s in the wrong direction.

  48. Cap breaking or a disturbance coming through because these post sunset thunderstorms are maintaining, even back building to the southwest not too far north from where we are.

  49. Very warm, muggy night out there with what we used to call “heat lightning” in the northeast sky. I suspect we are seeing that thunderstorm cell in the distance currently approaching Lowell.

    1. I remember my mom years ago, telling anybody and everybody who’d listen that there was no such thing as heat lightning. We had a professor from MIT who worked at Mac’s and my company who was the specialist in ferroresonance He was the first person I knew who confirmed that it was not heat lightning.

      I found this. Probably one of the most fascinating people I have ever met.

      https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/person/7843

  51. We picked up a quick 1/2″ of rain so far, with some good lightning. The temperature is now 70.

  52. Longshot – funny you should mention temperature swings on the front range. Denver just recorded a record high of 102F on Tuesday and then a record low of 48F yesterday. A 54F drop in temperature in a little over a day. Pretty common in that region.

    2. Yes, very common for those types of extreme swings there.

      People often think New England has the wildest, most variable weather, but we’re not even close to places like the front range of the Rockies, the Black Hills of SD (to name one of many like that), the High Plains of Texas .. I could go on. No, New England is not near the top of the list for wild extremes / changes.

  54. This is a very nostalgic summer evening / night for me. Warm, muggy, thunderstorms in the distance, Sox on the radio. I am loving every moment of it. We just got a nice breeze from the outflow from the dissipating storm passing north of our area.

    1. Memories for me too. So you had air-conditioning. A big selling point for houses was if they had cross ventilation. My bedroom at our last house in BELMONT. Had cross ventilation. I moved my bed away from the windows in the winter in between them in the summer.

      We typically slept with our head at the Foot because the foot was closer to the windows. And often would sprinkle baby powder on the sheets cooler.

      Enjoy your younger years you never know what the older ones are gonna bring but the memories are always there

      Hugs and best wishes for those who struggle with this weather like Mrs OS so many more.

        2. I didn’t know many who did. Mac and I had a huge box fan we’d put in the front screen door

          Honestly, those are more memories than if we had ac. But I sure understand how folks are struggling now in this heat without it. Or even with it.

    1. And all is right with the world again. 🙂

      With little to no pitching on both sides that’s for sure! 😉

      How many sweeps now?

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