Stormin' Across The Country
Posted by Pete Bouchard
With the amount of hype circulating around this storm in the Midwest, you'd think we were tracking another asteroid about to impact Earth.
Let's ease up on the gas. Sure, this is a strong storm, but by now, we should be all seasoned veterans with snow, wind AND winter.
So what's the scoop?
- Storm start-up still looks like Saturday afternoon. We'll still be able to get around and the amounts will be light through midnight - in fact, we may even mix from Boston to the South Shore. (Cape sees rain.)
- After midnight, the storm will get a little meatier. Snow intensity will increase into Sunday morning.
- Heavy snow through Sunday morning.
- Tapering to flurries by mid afternoon on Sunday
There is a lot of water being thrown around in the atmosphere, and with marginally cold temps, this will result in a heavy, wet snow in many spots. Even in Worcester county, it will make for good snowballs and snowpeople. On the South Shore, it will cake to the trees and power lines - so there might be more power outages.
Coastal flooding looks to fall in the minor to moderate category. This isn't a humongous storm, so the fetch of water along the coast (attributed to the east/northeast wind) won't be tremendous. Nonetheless, we're watching the Sunday morning high tide around 10am for splashover and inundated shore roads.
We'll be here every step of the way.
Stay with 7Weather.
Pete
What A Day
Posted by Jeremy Reiner
The last day of spring will be fantastic! What a way to close the books on the vernal season. As our weather producer, Jim Colman says...."what a season it was..rain, snow, wind, sun and more rain" Truth Jim, truth. Only sun today with afternoon temps in the upper 70s--a great day for all outdoor activities.
Just In Time
Posted by Chris Lambert
Summer officially starts Friday at 1:04 A.M., and Mother Nature's sending in summer weather for us just in time. Mid to late June averages highs near 80 degrees, and we'll be there temperature-wise over the next few days. Mostly dry too!
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: