And Down They Go

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Numbers have dropped for the storm:

Now before you go slinging mud, keep this in mind...

I gave snow amounts a couple of days ago because I felt there was a need to get out the word, not to fuel hype. If I talk snow, I give numbers. It's just the way I roll. I don't really like to dance around the subject, throw scenarios and 'what ifs' around. We're all busy, so I just get to the point.

We're all big boys and girls here. Things change. Storms have a mind of their own and sometimes don't play by the rules. This was one of them. Track, timing and precipitation amounts were right on. The storm's strength, on the other hand...

And that's where we start the discussion. With temperatures hovering in the mid and upper 30s we relied heavily on the fact the the storm will be strong and generate its own cold. That isn't happening. Not now, not tomorrow, not Sunday. So the numbers come down.

Timeline stays the same:

• Startup mid/late PM Saturday. Light snow/mix/rain.
• Rain gets the upper hand and pushes the snow briefly to 495 late at night
• Cold gets back into the act and pushes the snow back to the South Shore by Sunday morning
• Steady light snow through Sunday morning and early afternoon
• Splashover at high tide Sunday morning.
• Winds gust around 40mph at the coast Sunday

Pattern's still active! More on next week's event...later....much later.

Pete

Come On Ride The Train

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Heavy rain is on the move! All afternoon long it was stalled over Western Massachusetts and Connecticut. Heavy pulses of rain traveled over the same towns and cities - a process meteorologists call "training" - resulting in flash flooding in some counties to our west.

Unsettling

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

Another day where we have cool, ocean air battling warmer land air leading to a clash of air. That means clouds, drizzle, fog, humidity (frizzy hair) for much of the day. It's not a washout though. The highest chance of rain is this morning--until 9:30am and then later this afternoon (after 3pm). In between, you will see a lot of clouds but also some sunshine at times. Even limited sun will be able to shove temps well into the 70s. This warm & humid air is what will lead to another round of showers & t-storms later today. Some of the storms will be intense. Like the past two days the strongest storms will be in western New England. Only isolated showers/ thunderstorms are expected along the coastline later today. Sox game will have the risk of some showers but they should be able to play that game. Welcome back Tito!

Saved by The Sea Breeze

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Although my forecast was busted today, there was one good thing that came out of it.

Stability.

That gray overcast that hung over the eastern half of the Commonwealth provided a stablizing influence to our atmosphere. The cool air blowing in from the ocean kept the temperatures in the upper 50s and low 60s all the way back to Metrowest. While that makes for lousy short-and-t-shirt weather, it is poison to thunderstorms.

Wild & Wacky

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

Wild temperatures yesterday---from the 80s down into the low 60s in just an hour AND some heavy duty thunderstorms. The reason was a cool front that dropped in from Maine. That front is in western New England this morning and it's a chameleon as it will become a warm front and try to warm things back up during the day.