10/15/11 A sunny, dry windy weekend! Major storm mid week!

Sunshine and a dry northwest wind will help dry the soggy landscape over the weekend.

A major autumn storm will track up the coast during the day on Wednesday into Thursday bringing heavy rain and strong winds, a classic nor'easter, however temperatures will be way too warm for any snow, except in the highest elevations.

10/14/11 Kinda soggy...

A large upper low pressure system over Ontario and the remnants of the unnamed Florida tropical storm are creating a soggy Friday over New England.

A strong 988mb low over the Great Lakes will usher in windy but drier conditions with seasonable temperatures for the weekend in southern New England.  This low will deepen to around 970mb!

This low with compacted isobars (lines of equal pressure) as seen on the map above will move eastward Friday night bringing the chance of Thunderstorms associated with a cold front that are seen over PA and NY. Once the front passes the wind will shift to the west and northwest creating a very breezy day.

The low has a lot of clouds associated with it. Here in southern New England, we should get into the clearing that is seen over NJ and VA for the day on Saturday and Sunday, while northern VT and NH and Maine will see more clouds.

Saturday and Sunday will be quite windy. Peak winds speeds are shown in MPH, with gusts up to 35 mph expected along the Cape and Islands, 30 mph along the immediate coastline of MA.  A whopping 125 mph atop Mt. Washington in NH and just of note, an intense 60mph wind on Lake Erie, which will likely cause a major seiche! The piling up of water on one end of the lake, as much as 3 feet, almost like a storm surge.

Sun will fade behind clouds again later on Sunday as the back edge of the low moves through.

A coastal storm will threaten Wednesday into Thursday with rain and wind again. Snow in the highest elevations.

10/11/11 A whatchamacallit forecast, high elevation snow next week??

Crazy headline right?  A very interesting weather system hit Florida during the overnight Sunday into Monday morning with hurricane force wind gusts, high seas, coastal flooding, a foot of rain, yet officially it was nothing, meaning not a hurricane or tropical storm (as of yet). A good article was written here about it if you are interested.

This weather system, much weaker now will bring the chance for showers into the forecast for New England as it moves northward late Wednesday into Friday night.

High Pressure over Canada will keep us dry through Wednesday, however the effects of the winds around the high and the storm to the south will create an east wind off the ocean, allowing for cooler conditions than we have seen over the past few days.  The LOW over Saskatchewan will meet with the southern low to produce a period of rain for Thursday into Friday. The storm is a fast mover and will likely be out of the picture by Saturday.

Rain will be heavy over the next few days with up to 3" falling in some areas that do not need any more rainfall.

A look into a future forecast:

An extremely large storm system could possibly move out of Canada next week and produce the first significant Nor'easter for the winter season. Higher elevations in New England and New York could see their first snow falls. A lot can change in a week.

Record High in Boston today!

10/09/11 Record Highs Expected Today

Enjoy the weather today and tomorrow. Record high temperatures are likely across much of the region.

In Boston, the old record is 82 set back in 1942.

Thanks to a large area of high pressure overhead the air will heat up very nicely.

There will be a gradual cool down over the week ahead, when the next weather system, an area of showers developing over the Bahamas this morning will likely track northward. It is uncertain at this point whether this will be a tropical system or just a good ole fashioned storm.