Some Good News for the Weekend...
As we talked about last night, low level moisture is trapped in the lower levels underneath an inversion. If we had a different wind direction it would be easier to scour it out but the onshore wind component is making it very tough as evidenced by the length of time it took to see the sun today. But we finally eroded that moisture enough to see a few hours of sun this afternoon. Unfortunately, that cloud machine is about to get recharged...as we get closer to sunset and especially after sunset and radiational cooling really kicks in that low level inversion will get enhanced again and the onshore wind will reload the moisture creating more clouds...in fact there is an area of cloudiness over the Gulf of Maine which is expanding our way right now and just crossed over the city. This means we will have a similar day tomorrow with clouds in the morning and intervals of sun developing in the afternoon. Highs will range from the 70s in Western NE to chilly 50s along the coast.
Here's the good news portion of tonight's post...Saturday looks dry now...from start to finish! The frontal boundary sinking down from the north will get hung up in Northern NE and the next cut-off to our west will still be far enough west to not impact us...thus a dry day...probably not all that sunny, but we need to take what we can get in patterns like this one.
The cut-off will be getting closer and closer on Sunday...inducing a very moist flow from the sub-tropics into New England. Waves of rain will be rolling our way and this will end up being an extended stretch of very unsettled weather Sunday through most of next week.
