Beautiful Friday

A downright gorgeous day today will be followed up with a decent weekend, for the most part.

Today:  Lots of sunshine, mild, highs around 70 south, mid 60s north.

Tonight:  High clouds build in, lows in the upper 40s to near 50 south, low to mid 30s north.

Tomorrow:  Mainly cloudy, a few breaks of sun, chance of showers and maybe an isolated thunderstorms, highs in the mid 60s north and south.

Tomorrow night:  Decreasing clouds, lows in the upper 40s to near 50 south, 30s north.

Sunday:  Partly sunny, highs in the low to mid 60s north and south.

Discussion:

We are in between storm systems today and this is going to supply some nearly perfect weather for New England.  Plenty of sunshine through some high thin clouds and temperatures a few degrees above the normal.  Unfortunately this will really only last for today as another system is approaching.  As we head into the day tomorrow, a low pressure system will be passing to our southeast.  This will be close enough to add some instability to the atmosphere.  As temperatures warm up throughout the day, showers and perhaps isolated thunderstorms will develop.  The good news is that not everyone will have wet weather tomorrow.  It's not going to be a wide spread event, so I expect some places to see little or no rain.  Look for the rain to develop toward the middle of the day and then taper off during the early evening hours.

Conditions will improve for Sunday as the storm system pushes further out to sea.  There will still be a few clouds around, so we won't have full sunshine, but in general it will be a pleasant day.  Right now it looks like the weather we will see on Sunday is what we can expect for much of next week.  There is one feature we need to keep a close eye on however.

The low pressure system that will pass by to our south tomorrow might try to retrograde back toward New England early next week.  If that is the case, the forecast will change considerably.  If it does move back toward the west, we could be looking at drizzle, fog and mist with cool temperatures for a few days during the middle of next week.  The forecast models generally have a tough time forecasting these scenarios, especially when it is more than 4 days out from the current time.  It would be nice to have a Spring here New England with a few of these retrograding storms.  I'll keep an eye on this over the next few days.

Thanks for reading!

-Jon K.