Meltdown

Posted by Pete Bouchard

The slow melt continues, but with a semi-mild (well, at least above freezing in some spots) night and a VERY mild day tomorrow, we'll really put a dent in that snowpack. Here we are, not even a week away from the blizzard, and the remaining snow may dwindle to mere piles by Saturday morning!

But hang on. Old Man Winter's trying to conjuring up another snowy brew for the weekend. This is the storm we feared may form earlier in the week. We've been playing cat and mouse with it all along, but the threat remained low until this morning. It was then that the weather maps jumped on a snowy solution and the flags went up.

But hang on. The sentence doesn't fit the crime. The pattern still would favor a storm far offshore, not one close to New England. The only thing that may give us some small accumulation is a little whip of snow on the western side of the storm. I've been in this business long enough to know that while you CAN get burned on a flare-up of snow, it's still rare and uncommon in situations like this.

So it's with much trepidation that I put numbers on this map. Nonetheless, I'm not one to talk snow and hide my thoughts on accumulation.

So there you have it. These numbers are likely to go down as the picture becomes clearer.

In any event, we're certain on the warm-up tomorrow and the cold to follow on Sunday and Monday. This isn't just any chill, I'm seeing chill-to-the-bone kind of cold to finish the weekend. Highs will struggle to make freezing both days, and with a wind it will feel like teens and 20s.

A not-so-subtle reminder that it is still winter.

Pete

That's A Wrap--I Think

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

I hope I'm not jinxing us with this statement.."The recent wet pattern is over....onto sunshine & a more summer- like pattern.." The last time someone from 7 weather called a pattern change too soon we got a blizzard and 3 subsequent nor'easters (looking at you Pete!!--LOL). We don't have to worry about any blizzards or nor'easters but one never knows in the new world order.

Like A Waterfall

Posted by Pete Bouchard

If you were caught in those 'cloudbursts' today, you had more than you could handle in the rain department. Torrents fell in a short amount of time - what we deem 'flash flooding' in the weather biz. Since it happens suddenly, the National Weather Service has adopted the acronym TADD:

Bam! Pow!

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

Bam. Pow! Those were some nasty storms last evening with some towns in metrowest & the city itself blasted with locally heavy rain, hail, lightning and strong wind gusts. A cool front is the culprit and that front will linger across the region again today. That means another round of some scattered showers & t-storms likely.

Thunderous Start to Workweek

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Heat and a bit of humidity fed a strong - and sometimes severe - line of thunderstorms today. By the time the dinner hour rolled around (6pm-ish), the storms had consolidated into a line. Everyone got a drink of water and a big drop in temperatures - some falling nearly 20 degrees in minutes!