Active pattern continues

Warm front, cold front tomorrow, followed by another disturbance midweek.

Rest of today:  On and off showers, rain south, rain and snow north.  Most of the precip will be across Northern New England, highs in the mid 40s south, 35-40 north.

Tonight:  Showers, especially toward morning, temperatures remaining steady or warming a bit overnight.

Tomorrow:  Occasional rain, heavy at times, possibly ending with some snow mixing in late in the afternoon, breezy, highs 50-55 south, 45-50 north.  Daytime highs will be in the morning, getting a bit cooler during the day.

Tomorrow night:  Any rain/snow mix ending, breezy, lows 30-35 south, in the 20s north.

Wednesday:  Partly sunny, chance of afternoon rain showers, breezy, highs near 50 south, low 40s north.

Discussion: 

A strong low pressure system is moving through the Great Lakes today.  This is pushing a warm front through New England today and tonight.  This warm front is responsible for the precipitation we saw today and will continue to see.  Most of this activity will be in Northern New England this afternoon.  As the warm front lifts into Southern Canada tonight, we should have a lull in the precipitation.  I don't expect to see much rain after 8 PM this evening, until 5 AM tomorrow morning.  Around this time, the cold front will be close enough to start setting off more rain showers.

The cold front should move through New England during the middle of the day.  Rain at times is expected and maybe an isolated rumble of thunder.  Since the front is moving through early in the day, our daytime highs will likely happen before noon.  After that, northwesterly winds will start pushing colder air in.  This may happen fast enough that the rain may end with some snow mixing in late afternoon/early evening.  No accumulation expected.

By tomorrow night the precipitation will have moved off shore and we will just be left with windy conditions.  The breezy weather will continue into Wednesday and we will see a weak disturbance race into the region.  This should arrive in the afternoon and temperatures should be warm enough for any precipitation to fall as rain.  Not a strong system, but a few scattered rain showers are expected.

Beyond Wednesday, Thursday should be pleasant and along with most of Friday.  Another storm system will be approaching on Friday morning.  So we won't see much sunshine.  This system could bring a bit of mixed precipitation for a time, but it looks like warm air will win out in the end and bring mainly rain to New England.  More to come on this storm.

Sorry for the lateness today, but thanks for reading!

-Jon K.