Dreary

Unsettled weather remain in the forecast but we will see gradual improvement starting tomorrow.

Today:  Cloudy with showers and periods of drizzle and fog, highs in the 60s.

Tonight:  Cloudy with occasional rain, potentially heavy at times, lows in the 50s.

Tomorrow:  Mostly cloudy with the chance of a showers and maybe a few thunderstorms in the afternoon, highs in the mid and upper 60s south, near 60 north.

Tomorrow night:  Mainly cloudy, still a few showers possible, lows in the upper 50s south, lower 50s north.

Saturday:  Limited sunshine, showers and thunderstorms possible in the afternoon, highs near 70 south, mid and upper 60s north.

Discussion:

We are still under control of the low pressure system off to our west.  This will continue to rotate showers and periods of rain through New England through tonight and into tomorrow.  Some locations yesterday afternoon and overnight received a radar estimated 3" of rain, with a wide swath of 1+".  We needed a bit of rain here, but the fact that it is going to last for nearly 3 days is no fun for anyone.

During the day part today we should stay mostly dry.  Another round of showers and perhaps a few thunderstorms will approach the region later this afternoon.  By the time it reaches New England, most of the thunderstorms will have collapsed, but will still leave a large area of steady rain with pockets of heavy downpours.  Most of the rain should fall after the sun sets tonight, but will likely begin around the evening commute today.  It will be very similar to what we saw yesterday, but the rain will hold off a little longer than it did yesterday.  Again, most of the precipitation will be offshore on Friday morning.

Tomorrow will be a drier day, but we will still have the threat of showers and maybe a thunderstorm.  The biggest question is if the clouds will break up at all tomorrow.  If that does happen, some places will be much warmer than the 60s and with the amount of moisture in the atmosphere and the available energy, any thunderstorms that do develop will have the ability to become severe.  Right now, I'm not expecting too much sunshine, but again it's not out of the realm of possibility.

We will see some sunshine on Saturday and as a result we will have showers and thunderstorms developing as it warms up during the day.  Fortunately once these fall apart with the setting sun on Saturday, our weather will turn drier to finish out the weekend and into the beginning of next week.  It looks like we might have one or two days next week with chances for showers and thunderstorms, but nothing like what we are dealing with right now.

Thanks for reading!

-Jon K.