Weather-wise, we might be the luckiest people in the country. West Virginia is recovering from a flash flooding event that statistically only occurs once every 1000 years. Wild fires continue to rage in California. At one point earlier this week, heat advisories or heat warnings were in effect for 30 million people across the county, mainly in the southwest. Although not as oppressive as a few days ago, temps will still be about 10-15 degrees above average this weekend for much of the western US. The Midwest, Great Plains and the Great Lakes will be bracing for possible severe storms today. BTW…that’s the same system that will be heading here in a few days.
Meanwhile, our biggest weather concern in New England is trying to come up with enough appropriate adjectives to describe the forecast…awesome, fantastic, fabulous, amazing, beautiful, practically perfect?!?
This morning the National Weather Service called it an “all-purpose” weather day. In other words, whatever you want to do the weather will cooperate. Temps will warm into the low to mid 80s inland, and the mid 70s at the coast. The dew points tell you how humid it will be, and the answer is not at all. Dew points will be near 50 on Saturday and the upper 50s would be more typical for late June. So we’ve got the summer warmth without the summer humidity. Sunday will be a degree or two warmer everywhere, but still comfortably warm with low humidity.
Light onshore winds this weekend will veer a bit more offshore on Monday so the coast will warm up a bit more and everyone will be well up into the 80s on Monday. The dew points return to more average levels on Monday so you might notice a touch more humidity on Monday.
All good things must come to an end. Although in this case, its not necessarily a bad thing. A cold front approaches the area late Monday night and hangs out over New England for a couple of days. That means a chance of scattered showers and possibly a few thunderstorms for Tuesday and Wednesday. These will be very hit or miss showers, not widespread. So neither day will be a washout. As of today, there is a 3.7″ rain deficit in Boston and a 5.6″ rain deficit in Worcester for 2016. So, at this point, we will take every chance of rain we can get, especially if it comes well away from our weekend.
In the meantime, enjoy!