10:40AM
TODAY: Partly cloudy. High 80-85. Wind NW 10-15 MPH.
TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Low 55-60. Wind light N.
THURSDAY: Mostly sunny. High 75-80. Wind E 5-15 MPH.
FRIDAY: PM thunderstorms. Low 64. High 89.
SATURDAY: Mostly sunny. Low 66. High 90.
SUNDAY: Mostly sunny. Low 66. High 88.
Two spectacular summer days today and tomorrow especially after the heat and humidity we dealt with last week.
Thunderstorm Index takes a vacation the next two days but on Friday will might have to be on the lookout for thunderstorms. Currently the storm prediction center has us in the general risk category for thunderstorms.
One more thing I forgot to mention I just saw a new weather word courtsey of the extremely accurate Farmers’ Almanac (joke) putting the word drownpours in quotation marks between the 20th and 23rd of September calling for severe thunderstorms accompained by “drownpours” and possible damaging winds for the Northeast.
The next two days definitely look to be “top 10” days! 🙂
Yesterday was weird. I had a West wind here. Wind equipment indicated so, and I went outside and verified the wind direction. Yet when the storms approached (dying of course) the wind shifted to the SE. I am at a loss, perhaps TK could comment.
Many thanks
The gradient was weak enough and southerly enough that the ocean breeze won out over a good part of eastern MA. When I was driving during the 5PM hour, as the sky was darkening to the W-NW the wind was steady around 10 MPH out of the ESE here in Woburn. Not a typical pre-thunderstorm wind.
Once again most of the TV mets and the NWS as well missed the diurnal cumulus today. Cold aloft, residual moisture on the ground, sunny start, sufficient surface heating. Lapse rates just right for cumulus formation. A look upstream on the SAT pic the day before will often give a good clue as to whether or not you’ll see cumulus development the next day. We are clearly in cyclonic flow on the southern side of the cold pool today.