Unreal!
Can you believe it's actually still Winter...the vernal equinox arrives just after midnight tonight and Spring arrives, but the first few days will feel more like Summer. I've run out of adjectives to describe this weather which is a bummer because we have another week of this coming! We've seen record high temps in Boston and Worcester for two consecutive days and many more records will fall this week.
We have temporarily cooled down as a backdoor coldfront snuck in along the coast late this afternoon and many towns dropped 20 degrees in a few short hours. Marine air is building over the region and temps are cooling, as they approach the dewpoint later tonight, low clouds and fog will form. It will take a little while to burn it off in the morning but with the aid of a developing SW flow the sun will rule by afternoon. Temps at the coast will stay in the mid to upper 60s but inland temps will range from 75-80 again!
The middle of the week will truly be incredible, a Summer-like ridge will set-up in the east and midlevel temps will reach July levels. Highs on Wednesday will reach 80-85 and on Thursday the middle 80s. It would not at all surprise me to see one or two towns get very close to 90 on Thursday...this will shatter records across New England...again!
The earliest ever 80 degrees in Boston on record is March 21st...83 degrees occurred in 1921 so that record won't be achieved but on Thursday, with a high of 85 or higher, it will be the warmest temp ever recorded that early in the year!
By Friday, we start the cooling, onshore breezes following a coldfrontal passage will knock down the heat and over the weekend as an upper level cut-off low swirls to our south the threat for showers will increase as the temps continue to fall through the 50s into the upper 40s.
