5/25/12 We have a little bit of everything for everybody! Even HEAT!

This Memorial Day weekend forecast sounds more like a forecast one would be making for Labor Day.  Many features are happening on the weather maps and I hope to convey some of them to you below.

This mornings satellite image shows many of the features that will play in this weekends weather as well as into next week. For New England and Boston the focus will be on a cold front that will push north of us today and the high pressure over the south. A tropical storm is likely forming off the Carolina coast today. Each detailed below.

1.  The cold front -  This front will actually push well north of New England into Canada today and on the day Saturday, allowing the area of high pressure to the south to nudge in for Saturday and give us a very warm day.  However this cold front sneaks back down from Canada on Saturday night and runs into this large area of high pressure to the south and gets stuck over New England at least until Tuesday.

2.  The Hot High pressure that will bring heat to the south nudges in for one day of warmth on Saturday bringing temperatures into the 80s. However the front eventually comes back through and turns the winds east off the ocean and pushed the hotter air back to the mid Atlantic.

3. Disturbances will ride along the front to bring the chances for showers each day into Tuesday

4. A tropical storm is likely to be forming (out of season) off the coast of the Carolinas.  The weather pattern can actually be seen in its model track being pushed back south into GA/FL by late this weekend and then eventually up the coastline and out to sea by next week.

If you would like to see the Atmosphere in motion, click HERE and push FWD, very fascinating pattern.. You do not need to be a meteorologist to understand. What you are seeing is the flow of the atmosphere and the pressure (weather systems)

5/22/12 RAINachusetts... Yup! More rain. Memorial Day Outlook

Thanks to my friend Mikey for today's headline!  Royalties to come in the mail.

Today's weather map has some great weather features on it, if you are a meteorologist!  Not if you are a fan of sunshine, but have no fear, a big warm up is on the way.

An area of low pressure is slowly tracking up the northeast coast, bringing an east wind to most of NE. This will keep our sky cloudy with scattered showers for most of the day.  The former tropical storm Alberto will track well south of New England and eventually become part of the larger overall low pressure with no impact to land areas.    A cold front will slowly push east and bring the chance for thunderstorms on Thursday.

Scattered rain will be with us for  most of the day today as bands rotate in around the low over the South Shore

Weekend weather map...  High pressure will build across the South pumping heat into the plains and the Northeast. However, a cold front may be hard to displace. At this time, it is too soon to say whether the Boston area will be in the heat or in the cooler marine air.

With the above statement made, the weekend here in New England will end up sunny and hot or cool with some scattered showers.  As the week progresses, we can evaluate the pattern, right now I will go in the middle and not warm us up and keep a scattered shower possible.

Scattered Showers and Thunderstorms are possible into Thursday. A more humid airmass moves in late Thursday in to the weekend.

At this point, most areas will see Sunshine, through the weekend. A possible shower is possible on the Cape on Saturday.