A very tranquil, quiet weather pattern will take hold over the Northeast for the next week with the next chance of any rain or snow arriving next Sunday, February 12. Temperatures will remain seasonal with no extreme highs or lows for the upcoming week.
For today... however, it will be a NORMAL February 3rd day with the high temperature reaching the normal high for this date. Which is 37 in Boston
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| Friday will feature a normal February day for most of New England. |
Outlook: What will happen though is that some of the intense cold air that has been building over Alaska will finally push its way eastward and by next weekend, will park itself for a few days over Maine actually. This weather should remain in place for roughly a week or so.
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| Temperatures for next Sunday. Showing how the cold air will spill in from the Arctic into New England. |
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| Some of the coldest air will remain over Maine, NH and VT, but it will be chilly here, so winter should make a return! |
Ok I gotta know, why are people saying its 6 weeks til the spring Equinox? I'm counting on my calender and I'm getting 6 weeks and 5 days until the Equinox (March 20th) which is closer to 7 weeks. Is it customary to just round down? Because that seems a little odd, especially if it is to fit some mythos surrounding a groundhog.
ReplyDeleteI mean those 5 days should means something right? July 4th vs. June 30th, December 25th vs. December 20th, Thanksgiving on a Thursday vs. on a Sunday.
Anyways, I hope that didn't sound to mean, I'm just kind of baffled by it.
can't see a way to edit my comment so I'll just mention it here:
DeleteEDIT: the 6 weeks, 5 days is counting from Feb 2nd, Groundhog's Day, not from the 3rd or later.
I do think a lot has gotten lost in translation over the years, and I do know and acknowledge that yes, it is 5 days longer than six weeks (roughly 4 or 5 leap years, etc, solar movements). My thought would be why drag it out to say 7, when it seems longer, especially when you are going on folklore and a custom, versus an actual fact which was originally Candlemas.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened was basing a tale on an actual Christian holiday. So to move Groundhog Day to Feb 7th to correspond to an accurate 6 weeks back in the 1840s probably was not thought of as being important as much as saying "in 6 weeks, we'll be approaching Spring".
If you do look at a lot of folklore and weather tales, many of them do not follow the calendar exactly and do have some variations.
But, a good point to make for sure. Thanks
Also you may want to note too that the calendar was shifted in the US and most of Europe in 1752, so at that time, the Vernal Equinox was being held on March 10 or 11. Therefore too a folklorish Holiday does not need to be accurate either, unlike Easter which it solely based on the Equinox and the moon. These again are just theories.
ReplyDeleteAlright, that all seems reasonable. Thanks for clearing that up. I especially wasn't aware we had shifted the Equinox to later in the month.
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