Cooler and wetter

Unsettled weather is on tap for the next few days here across New England.

Today:  Mostly cloudy with the chance of a few showers, mainly a dry day though, highs in the 70s north and south.

Tonight:  Periods of rain, maybe a few thunderstorms, lows around 60 south, 50s north.

Tomorrow:  Mainly cloudy, chance of showers and thunderstorms, especially in the late afternoon, highs in the 60s north and south.

Tomorrow night:  Cloudy with showers possible, lows in the upper 50s north and south.

Friday:  Cloudy with the chance of more showers, maybe a few thunderstorms, highs in the low 70s.

Discussion:

Well it looks like the wet weather is arriving about 12 hours earlier than I expected.  Showers and a line of thunderstorms and downpours are moving into the region, weakening along the way.  This will likely not hold together to reach Eastern areas, but Western and Southern areas have already had some rain this morning.  I don't think we'll see much more rain during the day today once this batch clears the region or dissipates.  Tonight however will be a different story.  It's looking like there will be an area heavy downpours and thunderstorms approaching tonight.  Many areas need this rain as it has been pretty dry across New England over the last month.

The rain that will move through tonight should be mainly out of the picture by tomorrow morning.  Again it looks like the daylight hours of Thursday will be generally dry with just the chance of a few isolated showers.  Then we'll repeat the process and see another round of steady rain slide in Thursday evening into the overnight hours.  After this we should start to dry out slightly.  Showers and thunderstorms will remain the forecast through the afternoon on Saturday, but decreasing in numbers and coverage along the way.  Temperatures will start to creep back up on Friday and Saturday and we should be back into the 80s for Sunday.

Thanks for reading!

-Jon K.