Weekend Update…Cool Days Ahead!

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7:30PM

Showers and thunderstorms have been around since early afternoon, and though not everybody has been hit significantly, some areas did see hail and locally gusty winds with some of the storms today. Activity is beginning to wind down now, but there are still some scattered showers and storms around this evening as a disturbance slowly wheels its way across New England from west to east. This disturbance will help ignite an ocean storm just offshore during the remainder of the weekend, which will then hang around for the first few days of the upcoming week.  Basically, this means we won’t see much sunshine around here (though there may be a little tomorrow morning) into the middle of next week. Some periods of wet weather are also possible during this stretch of mostly cloudy weather. Temperatures will also be running below normal as the predominant wind direction will be north to northeast.

Details for the Boston area…

TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms decreasing and ending, though some locations may still see localized downpours and hail early. Low 45 to 50. Wind W up to 10 mph except locally gusty and variable near storms early, then shifting to N 5 to 10 mph later.

SUNDAY – MOTHER’S DAY: Partly sunny in the morning. Mostly cloudy with scattered showers in the afternoon. High 60 to 65. Wind N 5 to 15 mph.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers early. Low 45 to 50. Wind N 5 to 15 mph.

MONDAY: Mostly cloudy. Isolated showers. High 57 to 62 except 52 to 57 along the coast. Wind N to NE 10 to 15 mph.

TUESDAY: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers. Low 47. High 58.

WEDNESDAY: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers. Low 46. High 61.

THURSDAY: Partly cloudy. Low 45. High 64.

FRIDAY: Partly sunny. Low 48. High 65.

SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers. Low 47. High 62.

11 thoughts on “Weekend Update…Cool Days Ahead!”

  1. Good morning and happy Mother’s day to all the moms! I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a nice afternoon so we can all eat outside.

  2. Vicki – Happy Mother’s Day to you and to all the mothers out there! My husband and I were not blessed with children but we have our cat – she is our baby! 🙂 I know it’s not the same but she still means a lot to us.

    It’s beautiful out but clouds are building again and the dopplar radar shows showers along the NH border moving south – and you can just see the rain out to sea spiraling inland. Very interesting. Have a good day all.

    1. Thank you rainshine! I’ve had animals – although I hate to use the word since it somehow diminishes their importance – all of my life and they are like children.

      We are having soft showers on and off this afternoon and it’s quite cool. Still, it’s lovely with all of the trees in bloom.

  3. Happy Mother’s Day to all the mom’s out there! It has been a great day weatherwise so far today.

  4. Happy Mother’s Day everyone! It appears that many areas will have mostly cloudy skies and very cool temps especially along the coast. It was nice to see the sun briefly this morning. It’s too bad that both Mother’s and Father’s Days can’t be celebrated in June when abundant sunshine and warm temps are almost assured…both mothers and fathers deserve that combo. 🙂

    1. Philip – we have several June birthdays including mine which falls near or on father’s day and if we had to add Mother’s day to the mix I am not sure my husband would have much of the celebration left :)) That being said, that was a really nice sentiment!!!

  5. Joe mentioned in his blog today that the Midwest will be cooler than normal this summer, which could mean opportunites for severe weather for us here in NE.

    TK and others…can you explain this? Thanks.

  6. The map that Joe showed looks likes 2009 when the jet stream was further south than normal giving us those daily chances of showers and thunderstorms. If this is the case the thunderstorm index will get a workout this summer. In fact the Farmers’ Almanac points to June 16-19 for severe thunderstorms especially for New England and July 1-3 for violent thundrstorms. We shall see because as all of you know I don’t put much faith in the Farmers’ Almanac.

  7. Happy Mother’s Day to all mom’s out there…….Philip, just a guess, but cooler in the midwest in summer makes me think trof in the midwest and maybe a downstream ridge out in the western Atlantic. That western Atlantic ridge supplies the warm to hot, humid weather right along the east coast and the trof to our west sends disturbances eastward that ignite thunderstorms and an increased chance of severe weather episodes.

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