More Storms...
That must have been a top ten day...gosh, I didn't want it to end! I wish I could say that today's weather will spill over into the second half of the week but we are in for an unsettled stretch that will include showers and thunderstorms some could get quite dangerous too. There is a huge bubble of 90-100+ degree heat in the middle of the country and it is on the move toward the Northeast. The leading edge of it is a warmfront and it will be on the advance tomorrow morning into New England. There is already action along the front this evening and that action will be passing through tomorrow morning. It will mostly be just rain but some embedded thunder and lightning can't be ruled out either. That will be round one of wet weather, unfortunately, round two later in the day may be much more severe.
The big question is where does the warmfront finally settle. Right now, I expect the warmfront to get hung up just south and west of Boston. This keeps much of Eastern MA on the cooler side of the front and therefore lowers the severe weather threat as surface temps will stay mostly in the 70s to around 80 compared to Southwestern New England where 90 degree temps will be possible and dangerous storms are more likely. Ultimately, this is a very fluid situation and if the front settles farther north would mean that our severe storm threat would need to be elevated...time will tell. Regardless, there is a pretty good chance for dangerous thunderstorms to develop later in the day and work east...they may actually arrive after dark in Eastern MA too. The potential exists for large hail, damaging wind gusts, frequent cloud to ground lightning, flooding rainfall and maybe even a few rotating super cells. In fact, the Storm Prediction Center has pegged parts of the Northeast for isolated tornadoes tomorrow afternoon and evening.
An upper level trough will be entrenched here in the Northeast through the weekend so small surface lows and daytime instability will keep the threat for showers and storms going through the weekend.
Once again, keep an eye to the sky and if you are way from the TV tomorrow you can follow me on twitter @ToddWBZ...I will try to update as much as possible tomorrow afternoon.
