Wednesday Forecast

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7:28AM

DAYS 1-5 (AUGUST 9-13)
High pressure dominates today and Thursday then slips offshore Friday. A weak trough gets closer from the west by the weekend.
TODAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 77-84. Wind light variable with sea breezes.
TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Patchy fog. Lows 62-68. Wind light variable.
THURSDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 77-84. Wind light variable with sea breezes.
FRIDAY: Partly cloudy. Lows in the 60s. Highs from the middle 70s to lower 80s.
SATURDAY: Partly sunny. Isolated showers. Lows in the 60s. Highs from the middle 70s to lower 80s.
SUNDAY: Partly sunny. Isolated showers. Lows in the 60s. Highs from the upper 70s to middle 80s.

DAYS 6-10 (AUGUST 14-18)
Same general pattern, weak high pressure to the east, weak trough in the Great Lakes sending occasional disturbances into the Northeast. A few showers/thunderstorms at times favoring August early and again late period. Temperatures overall will be near the seasonal average.

DAYS 11-15 (AUGUST 19-23)
A slight retrogression of the high pressure area offshore should allow it to warm slightly with a continued risk for a few showers/storms at times.

45 thoughts on “Wednesday Forecast”

  7. Thanks, TK…Good morning, everyone.
    To paraphrase Pete Townshend: “Meet the new post; Same as the old post!”
    Another Top 10 Day! Back to school in less than three weeks. Hope the heat stays away.
    No AC…

    Sox win again! 7 in-a-row. Sale and Kimbrel combine for 16 Ks!!!!

    Sorry, Vicki…Not a single number on two MegaMillions tickets. Had the call back the limo that was heading your way. Maybe tonight with PowerBall!

    1. hahahahahaha – it pulled up out front, stopped briefly and turned around before I could get out the door!!

  8. Not nearly as cool as TK’s picture of him with Dick Albert posted a couple of days ago, I found this autograph that I got from Don Kent from the 1960s. Don was a guest speaker at the Foxboro Company where my grandfather and mom worked. Notice that Don apparently had his own company selling weather instruments.

    https://imgur.com/a/qCYNu

    1. Nice.

      Yes, indeed, he had his own instrument company, however, more likely the instrument company simply purchased naming rights. Well I am WRONG AGAIN! So what else is new? Check this out. Apparently Don Kent founded the company, now known as DownEaster Weather instruments.

      http://www.theweatherstore.com/dowein.html

      Btw, while I was in High School, Don Kent visited our school one evening
      and gave a weather presentation and showed a video (movie) in our auditorium. Afterwards he had a question and answer session and I asked him a question about coastal secondary systems which he happily answered and explained very well. After the presentation I had a chance to chat with him for a few minutes. Absolutely delightful man. I am so happy I had the pleasure of meeting him.

  9. While looking for Don Kent’s autograph, I found this snapshot (using an instamatic camera) of a funnel cloud in the backyard of my uncle’s house outside of Columbus, Ohio in June, 1973. I was almost 13. I remember the town’s tornado sirens going off. After taking the photo, we headed to the cellar. It was only a funnel cloud and never touched the ground.

    https://imgur.com/a/g5tUX

    A couple of years ago, I e-mailed the Columbus, Ohio Public Library and they were kind enough to research and send me the story in the next day’s newspaper about the storm.

    https://imgur.com/a/I8xgB

  11. Is this the same NWS staffer that keeps mentioning tornadoes and spin ups with
    this constant reference to a Predecessor Rain Event every time there is a possible
    tropical event???

    Sunday into Monday…

    With confluent flow aloft, wanting to put the squash on wet-weather
    chances. However, that grip loosens through Monday out ahead of
    another mid-level disturbance. Indication that the lower heights
    along with the approach of Invest 99AL nudge the quasi-stationary
    sub-tropical axis closer to the S/E coast. Though mixed signals from
    low-level wind profiles and whether there is the presence/influence
    of a predecessor rainfall event (PRE) out ahead of Invest 99AL. Too
    early to say at this point given model forecast disparity. Low
    confidence.

    1. I think the track has changed just a little with a little less of a northerly push. Might have gone from NNW to maybe NW.

    2. If there is anything that prevents my oldest and family from heading to Orlando next Wednesday, I’ll turning her loose here. She has Macs quiet calm but mixed with my resolve….although a bit less controlled….and that should terrify everyone 🙂

  12. Thanks, Captain, for sharing the Don Kent memorabilia. I remember him fondly.

    And thanks for reminding me of my favorite song when I’m angry about something (Who’s “Don’t get fooled again”). I let out a Roger Daltry scream when I’m really mad. Thankfully, that’s a very infrequent occurrence.

    And TK, I forgot to say that picture you shared of you and Dick Albert on October 30th, 1981 (a cloudy, murky day mired in the 40s – I looked it up) is priceless.

  13. Wow, that convection really developed today and wrapped tightly into a nice central dense overcast around franklin’s center. 85 mph sustained at 8pm advisory. Even though on satellite an eye hasn’t been easily visible, I do think this hurricane has impressively intensified today.

      1. So this is next Wednesday, a week from today to Orlando.

        I don’t think there’s an anticipation of any tropical troubles in Orlando, as things stand now. That system will be long since OTS by then.

        Probably just normal afternoon thunderstorms to contend with.

      2. Wesh TV.

        Tv station in Orlando. Of the trips I’ve taken to Orlando, pretty good TV station down there. Seemingly good weathercasts.

  15. Vicki,

    Is your daughter flying out of Worcester or Boston? We were just down in Orlando and flew out of Worcester for the second time. Extremely convenient!

      1. Oh Providence is great as well. As Tom was saying I think they will be just fine with the weather.

  16. Hmmm, a little downgrade from last evening????

    http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/xgtwo/two_atl_0d0.png?101157

    Now only the CMC does anything at all with this system, the one East of the Antilles.
    For days the Euro had it, but has now dropped it and the GFS never had it at all.
    The 2 hurricane models do diddly squat with it.

    So, not looking as if this will develop. Not currently anyway, but one never knows.

    VERY disappointed in the weather forecasts on channel 4 the last few evenings.
    Oh wait, Eric as not on, that is why. Did they have Barry? Nope! Did they have
    Jacob? Nope! Did they have Danielle? Nope! Ahh, there was a reason and I will be kind and drop it here.

  17. Sox are on a roll. 8 in a row. Not too shabby.
    The team has showed me some unexpected fortitude. Very nice to see. 😀

  18. Raphael Devers and Eduardo Nunez making great first impressions. If your looking for the turning point in the Red Sox season its the win against Cleveland last Tuesday in my opinion,

    2. Gotta wait till the end of the season to determine if it was truly a turning point, or just a detour on their way to mediocrity. Sorry, still have a bad taste in my mouth about this team as a whole

  19. I believe another “piece” of atmospheric smoke from the Northwest US and SW British Columbia area has made its way overhead New England today.

    1. If we have this smoke in the atmosphere during the solar eclipse, will that create a reddish look to the sun?

    2. Ahhh – so that is what has my eyes feeling as if they have grit in them.

      A friend posted this photo on FB the other day of smoke from fires in BC, Canada. She lives on Mercer Island, WA. She also said how the view of Seattle in the distance is always clear.

      I’m not sure if this will work. It is first time I have pasted a photo into imgur rather than uploaded

      http://imgur.com/a/Vj8uO

        1. Thanks JPD. When friend posted last week, I had saved it to share here, but then forgot until I just saw this discussion

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