One More Day...
This muggy and wet pattern holds for one more day before drier air works in for an amazing stretch heading into the weekend. An axis of heavy rain is working through right now with some pretty heavy rain. This same axis will still be around in the morning except it will be less active so a murky start with some showers and a few lingering downpours will greet you in the morning. Once midday rolls around I currently expect some hazy sun to work through the clouds...this will occur first in Western MA then move east. Along with that sun a coldfront will be sliding east from NY State. This front will provide a trigger for the warm and humid air to bubble into strong thunderstorms. The greatest threat with these storms appears to be hail and damaging wind along with the lightning and heavy downpours. The most susceptible area is in Western New England. These storms will be working east later in the afternoon and evening and should be in the process of weakening when they move into Eastern MA as the sun will be lower in the sky and maximum heating will have passed. With that said though, storms will need to be monitored closely everywhere in New England tomorrow afternoon and evening.
The triggering coldfront will slide offshore tomorrow night and a new refreshing airmass will take up shop for the end of the week with lots of sun and temps near 70. The weekend still looks great as high pressure should be anchored over the Atlantic and should block the slow moving storm system to our south until early next week. Temps inland over the weekend will be very near 80 degrees...at the coast expect 70s.
