DAYS 1-5 (JANUARY 24-28)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It may not be pure arctic air, but after a mild January up until a couple days ago, it feels pretty cold this weekend, and the wind is making it feel more harsh. At least we’ll have a day of bright sunshine today, sun that you are probably starting to notice rising a touch earlier, setting a little later, and climbing just a little higher into the sky each noontime. The weather lore says “as the days lengthen, the cold strengthens”. This refers to the coldest part of winter, on average, being from later January to the start of February, as we are noticing the sun’s higher angle after the dark days of December and early January are behind us. Well, that weather proverb is not always 100% true, but it often holds a good deal of truth, and this winter it does. We’ll continue to see colder than normal temperatures the next 5 days. But what about snow? This short answer is: no. Although that answer may not be completely accurate either. First, we continue to have high pressure centered to the west of New England and a large low pressure circulation in the Canadian Maritime Provinces as part of the ongoing blocking pattern. This keeps us dry\/cold\/windy today. The low edges away and the high center shifts a bit to the north Monday allowing the wind to relax. At the same time, low pressure is going to be making a run at the Northeast via the Midwest, but it’s going to run into resistance because the large scale pattern is not going to change enough to allow it to make an unimpeded trip into and through the Northeast. Instead, it gets stretched out and forced south of New England. While computer guidance will give you the idea that a solid area of snow tries to make it into the area, this is very likely an over-representation of what will happen, and we’ll probably see a solid area of cloudiness move in, while the snow falling out of it will be largely evaporating before reaching the ground, but we can’t yet rule out a little bit of that synoptic snow working its way down to the ground level sometime Tuesday night. This would be most likely in southern portions of our area. In addition, we should see enough of a northeast wind by then between high pressure to the north and the low passing to the south into Wednesday that some ocean-effect snow showers may develop and work in from the Gulf of Maine, at least into eastern areas. As we get to Thursday, a follow-up area of low pressure will emerge off the Mid Atlantic Coast. This storm is likely to become much stronger than the one before it, but also be tighter and a little further south, so we will probably never hear from its precipitation shield, but the circulation around this storm working with high pressure to the north may continue the ocean-effect snow shower chance and more wind is likely across the entire region. So while we may not be getting buried in snow any time soon, the feel of winter is definitely here to stay for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TODAY: Sunny morning. A few patchy clouds but still plenty of sun afternoon. Highs 24-31. Wind N-NW 10-20 MPH with higher gusts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 12-19. Wind N-NW 5-15 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MONDAY: Sun & high clouds. Highs 27-34. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MONDAY NIGHT: Variably cloudy. Lows 18-25. Wind N 5-15 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TUESDAY: Partly sunny morning. Cloudy afternoon. Highs 26-33. Wind N up to 10 MPH. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
TUESDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Some very light to light snow possible favoring southern MA southward. Snow showers possible near eastern coastal areas. Lows 17-24. Wind NE 5-15 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WEDNESDAY: Mostly cloudy. Snow showers possible, favoring southeastern NH, eastern MA, and RI. Highs 27-34. Wind NE 10-20 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Snow showers possible, favoring southeastern NH, eastern MA, and RI. Lows 17-24. Wind NE 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
THURSDAY: Mostly cloudy to partly sunny. Additional snow showers possible favoring Cape Cod. Highs 25-32. Wind NE to N 15-25 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DAYS 6-10 (JANUARY 29 \u2013 FEBRUARY 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Low pressure to the east & high pressure to the west results in dry\/windy\/cold weather January 29 then high pressure moves in with dry but more tranquil weather January 30. Next window to watch for potential low pressure impact is January 31-February 2. A shifting of upper level features may allow a better chance that the next system gets into the region instead of being forced to the south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DAYS 11-15 (FEBRUARY 3-7)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Expecting a weakening of the blocking pattern and as a result somewhat more active weather here with another potential low pressure impact by the middle of this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DAYS 1-5 (JANUARY 24-28) It may not be pure arctic air, but after a mild January up until a couple days ago, it feels pretty cold this weekend, and the wind is making it feel more harsh. At least we’ll have a day of bright sunshine today, sun that you are probably starting to notice … Continue reading Sunday January 24 2021 Forecast (7:27AM)<\/span>