Enjoy It While It Lasts

After another murky morning across most of the region, drier air came to the rescue as an upper level disturbance exited the area this afternoon. The result was the return of some splendid sunshine. This commodity, however, will be short-lived here in New England again this week so enjoy some more of it tomorrow because there probably will not be much of it again until later Friday. With a ridge of high pressure building in tonight, you will see the waning gibbous Flower Moon that rises at 8:53pm. The temperatures will fall to the 40s overnight and there will be some streamers and filaments of feathery clouds in the sky by dawn. Those high clouds will become more noticeable tomorrow afternoon while the temperatures are rising into the upper 60s to lower 70s away from the ocean with cooler conditions in the upper 50s to near 60 right at the coastline due to an easterly breeze at 5-15 mph. The first batch of showers could arrive by daybreak on Tuesday but the steadiest rain will occur over northern New England throughout Tuesday. Additional showers will poke across southern New England later that afternoon and evening as frontal boundaries close in.

Looking ahead, the cold front will likely stall just south of the region Wednesday and a new wave of low pressure will ride up along the boundary into New England late Wednesday into Thursday morning. Some of this rain could be heavy and it will be appreciated. After that, an upper level disturbance could produce a few more showers on Friday and that will be the end of that. If all goes well, strengthening high pressure moving into the Mid-Atlantic States will create sunnier and warmer weather for us with a developing southwesterly wind. Right now, I am planning on the 70s next weekend and that would be wonderful for Mother's Day on Sunday.

Melissa Mack delivers her AccuWeather Forecast in the morning and Todd Gutner follows later in the day.

Make it a great week!