The middle of this week will feature typical lousy Southern New England mid-spring weather. We’ll see a northeast breeze and water temperatures in the upper 30s to low 40s. The air temperature will mirror the ocean temperature Wednesday and Thursday. The best chance of rain appears to be Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday night. The temperature […]
Not much has changed regarding the outlook for the next couple of weeks. We are expecting plenty of April showers through the middle of the month. Of course, there will be dry days mixed in, but it looks like it may be raining or threatening to rain on several days between Friday and April 15. […]
January through March will be the coldest on record in Providence by quite a bit, possibly as much as 1.5° over some years from the early-1900s. That is incredibly impressive considering the amount of urbanization that has happened since then. The overnight low temperatures are typically not as cold now as they used to be. […]
If the temperature is below normal on Wednesday, and I expect it to be, then 57 of the last 60 days will have been colder than normal in Providence. Think about that for a second…95% of the time since late January, the temperature has been colder than it normally is in Southeastern New England. That […]
Barring an unforeseen warm-up, this is 2015 will have the coldest January-March stretch on record in the Providence area. This month is running nearly 6° colder than normal, and there is no sign of a warm-up in the next couple of weeks. It will be considerably colder than normal from Sunday through Tuesday, and only […]
There has still been just one 50° day in the Providence area since mid-January. The normal high temperature reaches 50 this weekend, and it does not look like getting to 50 will become routine anytime soon. The temperature may spike to 50 on Tuesday ahead of a cold front, but the rest of the week […]
March is running 6.6° colder than normal in Providence, and that includes the recent mild stretch. There is more relatively cold weather ahead, and it’s likely that by the end of the month, January-March will be one of the coldest (relative to normal) three-month stretches on record in Southeastern New England. Of course, as we […]
The short answer to whether this pattern will end anytime before the start of spring is “yes and no”. Do not expect an early spring, but, the pattern will not be as brutally cold, even relative to normal, as it was in February. A snowy first week of March will continue with snow to rain Tuesday […]
It looks like the first snowflakes in March will happen less than 24 hours into the month as a storm arrives late this weekend. So, after the snowiest February on record, March will get off to a snowy start. A lot of people may not be aware of this, but we typically see more than […]
If you’re a weather buff, remember this month. You may never see another one like it. February 2015 will go into the books as the one of the coldest and snowiest months on record in Southern New England. It looks like it will be the coldest on record in Hartford and Worcester, and second coldest […]