An Early Taste of Summer...
I guess it's time to put the AC units in...things are heating up around here and this warm spell has legs. High pressure is growing off the East Coast...that's a summertime placement for it.
I guess it's time to put the AC units in...things are heating up around here and this warm spell has legs. High pressure is growing off the East Coast...that's a summertime placement for it.
What a day...nearly perfect in my mind and the pattern is taking a turn toward a Summer set-up!
So what happened to Spring...well as is often the case here in New England we jump from mud-season to Summer. Highs today topped 80 for the first time since last October...the high at Logan was 82 set just before 2PM...dewpoints also reached the mid 60s making it very sticky.
Memorial Day is finally upon us and that means it's time to plant your tomatoes and other tender vegetables.
Boston hasn't seen 80 degrees since the first day of October 2010...months and months ago!
By no means a perfect day but it was certainly better as we broke into sunshine in the afternoon. A few showers and thunderstorms have developed in the heating of the day but are weakening as we approach sunset and later tonight clouds and fog will reform.
The sun made a few brief appearances today but Mother Nature has decided to introduce it to us in small doses so that we don't burn our retenas!
It may not seem like it but we are getting closer to improvements. The whole system is now beginning to weaken and move so now we just wait for the system to pass over us and far enough out to sea.
Mark another day off the calender...we are now one day closer to some sunshine and it can't come soon enough! We just completed day three of this wet pattern and surprisingly rain amounts are still fairly slim in most areas...1 inch or less.
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We are currently sandwiched between two upper level ridges and we will be living on the eastern side of an upper level cut-off low.
The high that supplied the great weather today will try to hold on for a little while longer and with a our next storm system moving at a snail's pace it should be able to give us one more solid day.
As we talked about last night, low level moisture is trapped in the lower levels underneath an inversion.
Did you see it? That elusive fireball in the sky revealed itself for a few short intervals this afternoon...ironically, the longest interval of sun occurred on the Cape.
So the powerful ocean storm is now 400 miles off the coast of Cape Cod yet nothing has changed, it's still cloudy, cool and wet. you don't have to go very far to get into very nice weather including bright sunshine
Gardening With Gutner takes us to the Arnold Arboretum this week, where they have the largest collection of Lilacs in all of New England.
We will avoid substantial rain from this storm...but it will be wet at times as waves of moisture work in from the north and east.
We head into Mother's Day weekend with showers hanging over our heads but it's not all bad.
Brief ridging will occur in the wake of a cut-off low to our north tomorrow supplying us with sun and warmth...take advantage if you can because the weekend isn't looking as favorable.
A coldfront is slowing down as it moves through the Northeast...we still have some wet weather and showers will continue through the first half of the night. The air will gradually dry out as lower dewpoints work in from the west by morning wholes in the overcast will be seen.
Tomorrow won't be so kind to us. A coldfront will be marching through in the early afternoon this will be loaded with showers and downpours...also, thunderstorms parameters will creep up preceding the passage and there will be a small threat tomorrow afternoon.
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After several beautiful days in a row, clouds are rolling in now and we will enter an unsettled stretch this week. Low pressure in the Ohio Valley is evolving and migrating our way...this will be a slow evolution and migration.
The high in Boston today reached 75...without the humidity...it was nearly perfect!
Dew points were at Summer levels today in the 60s and with a front in the vicinity, that moisture was rung out in the form of showers and storms.
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