12/21/11 A Warm Winter Solstice

On this shortest day of the year, warm weather has surged northward into most of Massachusetts, as can be seen on the weather map below. A warm front straddles the region just north of the Mass Pike (I90) where a sharp temperature contrast exists. 15 degrees in about 8 miles!

A warm front straddles Massachusetts tonight.

Temperatures in the mid 50s will continue until another front pushes through late Thursday to drop temperatures to seasonal levels.

The Winter Solstice Sunset across the Northeast as seen on the visible satellite image tonight at 445PM

Compare to the Summer solstice sunset - Note the sun angle (shaddow)

12/19/11 Dreaming of a White Chirstmas?? It could be!

After the coldest morning of the season, (14 here - 18 at KBOS) , the coldest since March 3, the temperature will rebound today back into the 40s as we get to a southerly flow of air ahead of a cold front approaching from the north today. The flow will be windy, with gusts approaching 30-40 mph in some areas.

Cold air will be short lived as yet again, the flow of air will quickly shift form the north to the southwest as a storm that will  bring snow to the southwest will move in the direction of the northeast, but without a connection to any arctic air, we will see rain fall.

Cool Canadian high pressure will quickly push colder air off to the east on Tuesday and allow temperatures to climb back to near 40. Mild air over the southeast, will push the cold front back north as a warm front on Wednesday and bring temperatures to near 50!

As the precipitation begins to fall late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, some light snow could fall across Western MA and CT in the Berkshires.

A light dusting of snow may fall overnight Tuesday into early Wednesday. A few flurries may be seen in Boston with no accumulation.

The trending story now with the weather is the potential for a Christmas day snowstorm up the eastern seaboard.  This map shows one output for snow.

Yes this map may be a bit aggressive, but show snow from TX to New England falling Christmas Eve through Christmas Monday.

Another model showing a developing Christmas snow for New England on Sunday morning!

More details to follow this week.

12/18/11 A chilly, with some Cape snow type of morning!

A developing ocean storm has brought some snow showers to the South Shore and the Cape this morning, but the low is tracking out to sea and most areas will see some clouds and diminishing snow flurries.

Light bands of snow showers set up over the Cape this morning, they will diminish as the morning continues

The coldest airmass of the season is overhead this morning with temperatures in the teens for most locations. (19 here at the WxBear Station). This air mass will have a difficult time gaining any warmth today as we are at the minimum for incoming solar radiation this time of year.

A warming trend will occur for the week ahead as a storm from Texas pushes into the northeast. It may start off as some snow showers on Tuesday, but change to rain in Wednesday.

A cold arctic air mass will filter in again on Christmas Eve next weekend.