Back to back days of soaking rains brought in a widespread 2-5″ of rain across much of Southern New England. Totals were lower across much of the coastline, while locally higher totals popped up in CT and RI, especially around Providence and Cranston, RI, where 8-11″ of rain fell. With much of southern New England in a severe to extreme drought, we certainly put a nice dent into it as most of the rain was beneficial.
Today, we start mostly cloudy with a few spotty sprinkles, but the overall theme of improvement is there. Temps today run close to 70 with partial sunshine this afternoon.
Patchy early clouds break for mostly sunny skies tomorrow with highs in the low to mid 70s.
Warmth continues to build into the weekend as highs push back into the low to mid 80s inland and mid to upper 70s at the coast. With temps in the 50s and low 60s at night, it’ll be a comfortable late summery pattern across the region with an opportunity to sneak in another pool or beach day this year. Surf will likely get kicked up too with Hurricane Earl out there in the Atlantic. Earl’s track will be just Southeast of Bermuda Thursday night/Friday morning and then race northeast bound.
The next round of showers for us won’t be until mid-week next week.