Tuesday August 11 2026 Forecast (7:17AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (AUGUST 11-15)

Humidity remains elevated but not oppressive today with the temperature down a small notch from yesterday as high pressure is in control, but the sky will again feature high altitude smoke from wildfires in the northwestern US and southwestern Canada, though today’s plume will be thicker south, and somewhat thinner north. This plume will thin further though Wednesday. We will see an increase in cloud cover, particularly in the southern half of our region, this evening and tonight with a low pressure disturbance passing south of our region in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday. This may bring a scrape of light rain to the South Coast region, particularly Nantucket, before to around sunrise, before moving out. The balance of Wednesday will be fair with lowering humidity and seasonable warmth. Thursday’s outlook is still unsettled with a trough and frontal system passing through the region with a couple rounds of showers and thunderstorms, although coverage may not be much greater than 50% for measurable rain. Friday and Saturday we see high pressure move in with pleasant, dry weather.

TODAY: Hazy sun with high altitude smoke and high clouds, also a few fair weather clouds popping up. Highs 81-88 but 74-81 Cape Cod. Dew point gradually sinks through the 60s. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

TONIGHT: Clouds thicken, especially south of I-90 with brief pre-dawn rain possible near the South Coast. Lows 62-69. Dew point near 60. Wind W to variable under 10 MPH.

WEDNESDAY: Early clouds limit sun South Coast / Cape Cod before sun returns. Mainly sunny elsewhere. Highs 80-87 except 73-80 shorelines, coolest Cape Cod. Dew point falls under 60. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear early, clouds return later. Lows 61-68. Dew point heads back toward 60. Wind variable to S up to 10 MPH.

THURSDAY: Variably cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms possible. Highs 78-85. Dew point 65+. Wind S 5-15 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Clearing. Lows 57-64. Dew point falls into 50s. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

FRIDAY: Sun and passing clouds. Highs 78-85. Dew point near 50. Wind W to NW 5-15 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Clear. Lows 55-62. Dew point below 50. Wind NW up to 10 MPH.

SATURDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 75-82. Dew point upper 40s. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (AUGUST 16-20)

Fair, mild, dry August 16 to finish the weekend. Higher humidity and shower / t-storm chances early next week before drier weather returns midweek in a generally west to northwest flow pattern in the region.

DAYS 11-15 (AUGUST 21-25)

Same general pattern. Some up and down temps, one ore two short-lived shower / t-storm chances with passing disturbances.

82 thoughts on “Tuesday August 11 2026 Forecast (7:17AM)”

  1. Somebody asked me if this was an unusually humid summer.
    The short answer: No. No longer answer is needed.

    Reminder: The media will find something daily to make you believe is unusual or has never happened before, when it’s not true. This is done for views, clicks, and shares. And it’s where the media has gone wrong, and continues to go wrong.

    Here: Facts will continue. Again, carry on! 🙂

  2. Good morning and thank you TK.

    74 up from 72 with dp 66

    Ocean: 69

    Wordle; 5

    Feels some what more comfortable again this morning. At least for now.

  3. WBZ radio anchor: “the dog days of summer may come to an end after today but the heat and humidity will continue on through the week into the weekend.”

    It will? Gee maybe I should update my blog and completely change my forecast. Haha

    2. Wbz radio has been the same for far more years than I can remember. Podcasts are a great alternative in the car.

    3. I listen to WBZ radio going into work & coming home & there forecasting is always off

  6. Wordle was a gift considering what I started with.

    Only one letter, incorrect position, from my first two guesses. A third word that came to me out of nowhere that gave me that same letter, still incorrect position, but two more letters in correct position

    Wordie 4.

    NOT a spoiler
    https://ibb.co/KcQjP2qW

    1. Nice 4. Well done!!!

      Given what the word was, My score was a disappintment today.
      At least I still got it, so that’s something, considering.

    2. Well done.

      I made a weird guess on the third one. I didn’t think it would be accepted as a word, but it was. I later looked it up and, well, ick!

  7. Thanks, TK.

    AI is often bandied about as the all-knowing answerer of questions. I do find it helpful with certain things. BUT I caution anyone who’s an actual expert in a field to then rely on AI for factually accurate information OR analytically sound arguments. AI often gets the facts wrong. Or it sometimes doesn’t use logical analyses in a rational way. The latter is even more disturbing than the former. I always knew that AI could get facts wrong. This goes without saying. It’s when the logic isn’t there or gets distorted that really alarms me.

    The garbage in, garbage out principle applies. All AI is doing is sorting through a ton of data and analyses, many of which are trash or garbage (includes peer-reviewed publications, by the way). I haven’t seen improvements in the models’ ability to sort through this mess and distinguish between what’s factually accurate and logically sound from what’s not.

    It’s troubling that we as a nation want to build our economy around something – AI – that is as faulty and leaky as it currently is.

    1. Well said Joshua. I often use it for help with coding issues.
      The information is sometimes good and sometimes, well, not so good. There will be information missing or errors in the information provided. But sometimes it is spot on.
      One has to be extremely careful, for sure.

      1. Thanks 🙂

        Nice 4s and 5s above !!!

        About to attach the trailer to the truck. I’d ride in the trailer(caboose), but I have to drive 🙂 🙂 🙂

      1. Average at best Vicki , it’s just a tough road right now & she needs to be watched closely . She was hospitalized the end of July with severe dehydration, appreciate you asking .

          1. She will never be 100% unfortunately. She has multiple chronic illnesses that are pretty serious .

    2. Awwww so sweet and 5 is great. I assume you saw your mom’s. Might be the most impressive one I’ve ever seen. She sure found magic

      And please come on up to the 4 car.

  15. I heard on WEEI that Christian Gonzalez is AWOL from joint practice today.

    Did Bob Kraft screw up Gonzalez’s contract?

    1. I don’t know if Kraft is just too cheap to pay Gonzalez OR Gonzalez is expecting too much. I lean toward Kraft being too cheap. I think they are farther apart that one might think.

  17. Will the high pressure to our southwest nudge northeast to put us in the ring of fire MCS complexes? Will we now have a few more 90° days? And high dewpoints? If the CFS is a guide those probabilities are looking less likely. Any thoughts fellow weather enthusiasts?

    1. Not in the next few weeks.

      West to west/northwest flow, even occasionally northwest flow at 500 mb. No ridges over the northeast US.

      Disturbances every once in a while in the 500 mb flow turn the sfc winds southwest, with a DP increase into the 60s for 1 day, surrounded by days with polar air, mild/warm temps and dps in the 40s or 50s.

  18. Just to finish up the thoughts on WBZ radio…

    I have been a big fan of ‘BZ in general for years. The TV station has always been decent. The news, of course, succumbs to the typical pressure from the bosses, but there can’t be much done about that right now if these folks want to keep their jobs. Sad, but true.

    WBZ radio’s weather started to suffer several years ago when the station started to use a mixture of AccuWeather and the WBZ in-house team. You can have whatever opinion you want about AccuWeather, and the are certainly not without “issues”, but it is just that often these forecasts didn’t match, especially when it came down to details about summer heat, or snowfall amounts in an upcoming winter event. And they would go interchangeably between the two (news directors) and this would often lead to them giving contradictory information in back-to-back stories.

    And then, iHeart got involved. This is when the entire news set-up when to crap, because iHeart leans heavily into the drama and entertainment end of news, rather than the information & fact side of it.

    From there on, it speaks for itself.

    I really do feel bad for so many people in the business who are great at what they do, only to have to “follow the business model”. Ugh, I hate that stupid phrase.

    Anyway, onward. I have to look at the updated stuff and then my next comment will be on weather. 🙂

    1. Interesting. Mac and I listened when in the car. But it was before he passed that we gave up on its weather.

      As far as feeling bad, I agree. Especially now that corporate dictates how anything is reported. Although that isn’t new either. I have to see if I can remember when I was told about it.

      1. Didn’t take long. There is an event that occurred maybe a year after I learned of it that’s easy to search. It would have been right around 2014 that I was told what was being dictated by corporate

  19. It’s still quite warm outside. My thermometer said 88F and it definitely felt hot on my outdoor run. I’m kind of tired of challenging my body as the recovery is quite a long process. Not sure if it’s even good for me at this point.

  22. Am radio is on a downward trend. Many stations especially privately owned are handing in there fcc licenses. They are selling transmitter sites to private developers. I-Heart radio is in my opinion the ruination of am radio in this country. Audacity if I’m correct is inn bankruptcy protection. Some of the big 50,000 watt singles could be gone in the next several years. WBT Charlotte NC airing a continuous canned music advertising there 100.000 watt FM signal what now airs what the AM side used to broadcast. WPHT 50.000 watts in Philadelphia could be on the chopping block. The same thing with AM radio is happening in Canada. . Will WBZ eventually fire the on air staff? Because of I-Heart? Many personality’s have been let go all over the country. One example is Paul&Al down in here in PVD area after 30 years or more. WHJY 94.1 big 50.000 FM signal.

    1. Yes. I agree. AM will be essentially gone within 10 to 15 years, and FM will follow within 25 years.

      Good thing that radio station I’m helping to build, called “Woods Hill Radio” is an internet one. 🙂

        1. About the station? It’s been in the pipeline for a while, but now we’re actively working on it.

          Eventually it will contain an audio version of the blog..

          Its most prominent feature will be a radio playlist that is larger and has more variety in it than any other collection available. 🙂 I’ve already added over 20,000 songs, and that’s just me. There are about 9 people contributing to it.

  24. ‘fore this week is over, we’ll see some dew points falling under 50 in at least a portion of our region. Can you guess where this is least likely to happen and why?

    2. Perhaps as high pressure comes closer and the winds lighten, allows for some seabreeze that would push dps slightly over 50F, but still very comfortable even at the coast ???

  25. New Bruins for the upcoming season…

    JJ Peterka (#10), forward.
    Will Borgen (#17), defense.
    Ivan Ivan (#49), forward.
    Connor Clifton (#75), defense (has been on the team before).
    Lukas Reichel (#76), forward.

  27. Drake Passage (FWIW)

    Wave heights in the Drake Passage may drop below 2 feet this week, a very rare event to say the least. Sometimes this is referred to as the Drake Lake when waves drop below 5 feet as opposed to the Drake Shake when waves can run 30-50 feet.

    The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), probably the largest current in the world, is wind driven but also affected by the attempt of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans to collide with each other as well as topography, ice sheets and half dozen other variables. You can probably throw the Indian Ocean into the mix. I know very little about the ACC beyond the fact that it is a complex animal. All I know is that 2 foot waves are unheard of.

  28. Sox slide continues. Regression happens. But the errors, poor baserunning, and sloppy play remind me of … how they played in April, May and most of June. I do think Toronto is a good team that has had a bad season. They’re due to get hot.

    1. They need to stop the slide and win the next 2 games for a split in the series.

      4 losses in 4 games…4 game losing streak.

      Hopefully they start winning series again. I’ll be satisfied with splits in 4-game series home or away. They do that, they’ll be ok.

    2. The manager showed his inexperience tonight.

      Their plan vs Toronto Ace Cease either to perfection. They made him throw 104 pitches thru 5 and had a 3-1. You were winning what started as a decidedly underdog pitching matchup. Cease wasn’t coming out for the 6th.

      Had to be way more aggressive, in this particular game with the bullpen. As soon as the 1st guy reached in the 5th, go to the pen, try to hold the advantage you had masterfully built vs Dylan Cease.

      Nope, never mind the 5th, he then stuck with Sandoval in the 6th and see ya.

      Of these past 4, this past Sunday’s game is the painful one. Chapman and Whitlock have to hold the lead vs a not good A’s team. That’s the tough loss. 1-3 vs 0-4 is big, had they gotten that 1, you only drop 2 games relative to .500, now they’ve quickly given up 4.

        1. Their ob string briefly showed 90 in between two 88’s, but they recorded their high as 89.

          1. Thank you. I figured at the time that it was not 90 long enough to hold. Where do they record official numbers?

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