Believe it or not, the longest consecutive stretch of 70°+ days in Providence this year is three from May 10-12 when the temperature actually averaged over 80°. Aside from that brief run of warm weather, there have only been two other times with back to back 70°+ days. Needless to say, there are plenty of Southern New […]
Thursday is looking a lot less like a wet day in eastern New England, and, it’s actually trending toward mostly dry in RI and SE MA. The 12km NAM is completely dry in RI on Thursday. The higher resolution 4km NAM has some showers in the morning, but only for a couple of hours. It’s […]
The cut-off low pressure system that we were concerned about bringing unsettled weather early this week is developing farther east than predicted in the Long-Range Forecast. The result is mainly dry weather with just a few pop-up showers – primarily in Eastern Massachusetts. Unfortunately, the wet weather system for late this workweek that we first […]
The first half of May has been relatively dry and warm in Southern New England. After an inch-plus of rain on the first day of the month, there has been less than one-tenth of an inch in the Providence area in the last two weeks. Of course, heavy showers are in the forecast for Friday […]
Most computer models are in agreement that the heavier rain with the upcoming event will be in western Southern New England and near New York City. It looks like there will be at least a half-inch of rain in New England east of CT. Some models have 1″+, and totals may vary because of the […]
Rain is likely Friday night into, at least, Saturday morning as a front moves through New England. The rain may be heavy at times, and thunderstorms cannot be ruled out. It looks like an inch of rain will fall in most spots. We have seen this system coming for a while. As mentioned in recent […]
Boston reached 80° for the third consecutive day on Monday. It was the first time that’s happened since September 2-4, 2013. Providence saw the warmest day since mid-September. Does this mean we’ve turned the corner to a warm spring pattern? No. Reality will bite Monday night as the wind shift to the northeast and brings […]
The Long-Range Forecast is a day later than normal this week because of a prior commitment on Thursday. There has not been much change since Monday in the overall outlook for the next couple of weeks. The devil is in the details with a couple of potentially significant weather events between May 12-20. The first […]