Warmer, Yet Unsettled Weekend
As an Alberta Clipper approaches New England, clouds will be building this afternoon and producing brief rain/snow showers . These brief spurts will occur from 2pm-8pm as a cold front sweeps across the region. Winds will also be gusty at times as they switch from southwest this morning to northwest this evening. Highs will range between the upper 30s (Central Mass/higher elevations) to the middle 40s.
Colder air settles in for Thursday along with sunshine. Friday will be back to the 30s with a slight chance of rain/snow in the evening and overnight due to a warm front liftting northward. This system will prove to be complex.
This weekend: Both the GFS and the EURO show us in the 'warm sector' on Saturday and Sunday. This will provide us with a 'hint of spring'. Saturday is looking dry with highs near 50, and Sunday's highs will be in the middle 50s...possibly as warm as 60! This morning, both models show rain/thunder moving in by late-day on Sunday. However, a second wave of low pressure develops along the cold/stationary front near Atlanta, GA Sunday afternoon. This surface low will track northward affecting us through the day Monday. The track of this low is very important. At the moment, models show this as a rain event with a backlash of a few snow showers Monday evening before ending. The EURO is *slightly* farther east according to the 00z run which is slightly colder towards the tail-end of the storm. If this low ends up farther east, we could be looking at significant snow. So, we need to monitor these model runs closely.
Melissa:)
