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DAYS 1-5 (JANUARY 21-25)
\nI bet many of you are tired from dealing with winter weather and perhaps watching an exciting football game, or perhaps some of you, like me are battling with or recovering from a winter cold, so today’s blog update will be short and to-the-point. Kind of taking it easy. First, it’s a bitterly cold northwesterly air flow today with arctic air dominating, and other than a few ocean-effect flurries on the outer part of Cape Cod we’ll see dry weather, then we moderate ever so slightly as high pressure moves overhead Tuesday. This high moves offshore by Wednesday and a cold front approaches, and it warms significantly that the next round of precipitation falls as rain showers, however it may be cold enough at ground level for some freezing rain at the start from this, so something to keep an eye on. This front will get hung up in its attempt to get offshore Thursday and with low pressure riding up along it, it means more precipitation, but this time it will be mild enough for a rain event. However as it pulls away, there may be just enough cold air to end it as a mix or brief snow at night, if the timing is correct. On Friday we’re back to chilly and dry weather for the most part, but a disturbance approaching later in the day and evening may trigger some snow showers.
\nForecast details…
\nTODAY (MLK JR DAY): Partly sunny. A few snow flurries outer Cape Cod. Highs 5-12. Wind NW 15-25 MPH, higher gusts. Wind chill -5 to -15 at times.
\nTONIGHT: Clearing. Lows -2 to +5. Wind NW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts. Wind chill -8 to -15 at times.
\nTUESDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 22-29. Wind NW 5-15 MPH becoming light variable during the afternoon.
\nTUESDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 11-18 evening, then slowly rising overnight. Wind light variable evening, light S overnight.
\nWEDNESDAY: Partly sunny early, then mostly cloudy. Rain showers arriving west to east but may fall as freezing rain at first. Highs 38-45. Wind S to SW increasing to 10-20 MPH.
\nTHURSDAY: Cloudy. Rain, may end as mix\/snow late. Temperatures fall from the 40s to the 30s.
\nFRIDAY: Partly cloudy. Risk of snow showers late-day and evening. Lows in the 20s. Highs in the 30s.<\/p>\n
DAYS 6-10 (JANUARY 26-30)
\nColder air will dominate much of this period. We’ll have to watch the January 27-29 period for potential storminess, but the very early idea is that it may be too far south and east to have a significant impact and we’d just see more energy from the polar jet stream with snow showers. Low confidence. Many days to iron it out. Fair weather later in the period.<\/p>\n
DAYS 11-15 (JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 4)
\nLarge scale pattern retrogression (westward movement) may occur with low pressure scooting back to the west and a flat ridge in the US Southeast. This would allow some milder weather and a westerly flow with minor weather systems passing through the region. Again a low confidence forecast for this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
7:23AM DAYS 1-5 (JANUARY 21-25) I bet many of you are tired from dealing with winter weather and perhaps watching an exciting football game, or perhaps some of you, like me are battling with or recovering from a winter cold, so today’s blog update will be short and to-the-point. Kind of taking it easy. First, … Continue reading Monday Forecast<\/span>