Hot to not

From steamy weather yesterday to damp and cool for the weekend.

Today:  Partial sunshine, highs in the 70s.

Tonight:  Partly to mostly cloudy, lows in the 50s south, 40s north.

Tomorrow:  Cloudy with the periods of rain showers, slight chance of an embedded thunderstorm, highs in the mid 60s.

Tomorrow night:  Occasional rain with the chance of a few rumbles of thunder, lows in the 50s.

Sunday:  Rain showers possible, especially in the morning, highs near 70 south, mid 60s north.

Discussion:

Looks like we'll have a mainly lost weekend coming up thanks to a low pressure system moving through New England.  We'll have a decent day across New England today, a bit heavy on the clouds, but generally pleasant.  However, another storm system is headed our direction that will directly impact our weekend.  The center of the low will pass off to our north and west on Saturday night.  Out of ahead of the center of the low will be some rain along the warm front, the rain from this should arrive during the first half of Saturday.  Most places will just see rain, though there could be a few embedded thunderstorms with heavier downpours.  Late Saturday afternoon into Saturday evening is when we should have a break from some precipitation, after the warm front moves through and before the cold front arrives.  The timing of the cold front remains a bit of a question mark right now, but it looks like it will move through around or before sunrise on Sunday morning.  The sooner it moves through, the better our chances are of having a mostly dry Sunday.  I'm expecting just some leftover rain showers on Sunday morning with gradual improvement throughout the day.  I don't think we will see much in the way of sunshine on Sunday, but it should be the better of the two weekend days.

Looking out into next week, I don't think I like what I see.  We might have to deal with a retrograding low pressure system backing in from the ocean.  I've said this before, the guidance models have a tough time forecasting these events, so let's just hope what I'm seeing is in correct.

Thanks for reading!

-Jon K.