Warm week upcoming

Happy Easter Everyone!

Today:  Partly sunny, more clouds in the afternoon, highs upper 60s to near 70 south, around 60 north.

Tonight:  Mostly cloudy south with a few showers possible, partly cloudy north, lows in the upper 40s to near 50 south, low 30s north.

Tomorrow:  Cloudy with showers and drizzle south, sun and clouds north and west.  Highs in the upper 40s and lower 50s in Eastern MA and South central/eastern NH, upper 50s and lowers 60s elsewhere.

Tomorrow night:  Cloudy with showers possible, especially north, lows in the upper 40s south, upper 30s north.

Tuesday:  Lots of clouds, chance of showers, especially north, highs in the low to mid 60s south, around 60 north.

Discussion: 

A bit of a tricky forecast for the next few days.  It all stems from a warm front that will set up across New England starting tonight.  Before that happens however, we are going to have pretty nice day today.  We should have sunshine for a good part of the day until some clouds start to build in for southern areas in the afternoon.  Temperatures will also be much warmer today than what we had yesterday.  I'll be wearing shorts this afternoon!

So onto the tougher part of the forecast.  A warm front will start developing tonight to the south of New England.  As this organizes, rain showers will develop as will an easterly wind to the north of the front.  This is going to cause a marine layer to develop across eastern and southern sections.  Unfortunately this is going to drop temperatures back down to cooler readings for these areas.  Basically, east of the Worcester hills and Monadnocks will be stuck with cooler temperatures and possibly some drizzle and rain showers.  Outside of the area just mentioned, temperatures will be about 10 or so degrees warmer, still cloudy however with the chance of showers.

It looks like the warm front will lift north on Monday night or Tuesday morning.  This will provide a warm up for southern and eastern locations for Tuesday.  We still probably won't see too much sunshine and the chance of showers will still exist, but it will be warmer.  Once we get to Tuesday, it looks like the majority of the precipitation will be focused across Northern New England, along that warm front.  I wouldn't be surprised to see a few thunderstorms develop at times along this front.

Beyond Tuesday, we will still have to deal with occasional rain shower this week, but it looks like temperatures will remain mild into the day on Friday.  A cold front should pass through the region late in the week, probably on Friday.  Behind that front, temperatures will cool down a bit and right now next weekend doesn't show much promise....

Thanks for reading!

-Jon K.