Heavy Rain To Dampen Thursday Morning Commute
BOSTON (CBS) - Get ready, we are in for yet another round of heavy, soaking rain and it will make for another slow commute Thursday morning.
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A frontal boundary is currently draped across southeastern Massachusetts and that area will be the focus for the heaviest rainfall over the next 24 hours.
Steady, light to moderate rain will continue south of Boston today and taper off a bit later this afternoon and early this evening.
But a wave of low pressure will form along this weather boundary well to the south and ride right up over Cape Cod Thursday morning, delivering a deluge focused in southeastern Massachusetts.
Some very heavy rainfall will overspread all of southern New England just after midnight.
By the morning commute on Thursday most areas will already have received an inch or more with additional heavy bands continuing to pound southeastern Massachusetts.
This wave of rain will exit by midday on Thursday after dumping 1-3 inches over all of southern New England, again with the heaviest (2-3 inches+) over portions of Plymouth and Bristol Counties as well as Cape Cod and the Islands.
From here the weather does improve.
Some sun should peek out Thursday afternoon and again on Friday.
However, the air above us will remain fairly unstable prompting building clouds each afternoon with pop-up showers or thunderstorms.
Just in time!
Lots of sunshine is in the forecast for Mother's Day weekend. There's a low shower risk and temperatures will climb well into the 60's and perhaps 70's by Sunday!
A few interesting weather facts of note:
So far, May has averaged a temperature of 50.8 degrees. This is nearly 4 degrees cooler than normal, and if this trend were to continue this would be our first below normal temperature month since June of 2011!
Even more startling, May has actually been cooler than April so far!
April's temperatures averaged 53.1 degrees, more than 2 degrees warmer than our current average for May.
In fact, Boston just hit 60 degrees for the first time this month at 9 a.m. Wednesday. It took us 9 days to reach 60 degrees a mark that we hit on 16 separate days in April.
As for rainfall, we had just 6 days with measureable rain in the month of April. We have already equaled that mark this month, today being the 6th day out of just 9, with rain in May.
It makes you wonder if this is just a bump in the road or a serious shift in the weather pattern as we head towards the summer.
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