It will get better

I promise our weather is improving, it's just taking awhile.

Today:  Cloudy, chance of a few showers, especially this afternoon, highs only in the low 60s.

Tonight:  Periods of rain, slight chance of a few rumbles of thunder, lows in the 50s.

Tomorrow:  Mainly cloudy, showers and thunderstorms possible, particularly in the afternoon, highs in the 70s south, near 70 north.

Tomorrow night:  Showers and thunderstorms taper off, partial clearing, lows in the 50s.

Sunday:  Partly sunny, finally dry, highs in the upper 70s to near 80.

Discussion:

There are just few widely scattered showers around New England this morning and these will continue to lift toward the northeast throughout the day.  Once they move out or fall apart, much of the region will stay dry until another round of rain develops across Northern PA and Upstate NY.  They are seeing sunshine there and this will set off a line of showers and thunderstorms that will move into the region late this afternoon and tonight.  By the time it reaches the cool, moist atmosphere here in New England, the majority of the thunderstorms will fall apart just leaving pockets of heavy downpours.

This batch of rain should be clear of New England by sunrise on Saturday and I think that just maybe, possibly, there could be a few breaks of sun tomorrow morning.  How much sun we see tomorrow will greatly impact how much rain develops during the day.  The more sun that breaks through, the more showers and thunderstorms that will develop.  With 3 straight days of rain, the low levels of the atmosphere are very moist.  With heating, this moisture will be lifted up in the atmosphere and will drive the development of more clouds along with showers and thunderstorms.  If we do see an extended period of sunshine, look for some of those thunderstorms to become severe during the afternoon.  Once the sun sets however on Saturday, the wet weather will begin to fall apart and then we can look forward to Sunday.

Sunday will feel like the nicest day we've had all year long after what we have put up with since Wednesday.  We should see a fair amount of sunshine and temperatures getting very close to 80 degrees.  The dry weather looks like it will continue into the first half of next week as well.  So just a little bit longer and then we can all go outside again.....

Thanks for reading!

-Jon K.