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By no means a perfect day but it was certainly better as we broke into sunshine in the afternoon. A few showers and thunderstorms have developed in the heating of the day but are weakening as we approach sunset and later tonight clouds and fog will reform.
The sun made a few brief appearances today but Mother Nature has decided to introduce it to us in small doses so that we don't burn our retenas!
It may not seem like it but we are getting closer to improvements. The whole system is now beginning to weaken and move so now we just wait for the system to pass over us and far enough out to sea.
Mark another day off the calender...we are now one day closer to some sunshine and it can't come soon enough! We just completed day three of this wet pattern and surprisingly rain amounts are still fairly slim in most areas...1 inch or less.
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We are currently sandwiched between two upper level ridges and we will be living on the eastern side of an upper level cut-off low.
The high that supplied the great weather today will try to hold on for a little while longer and with a our next storm system moving at a snail's pace it should be able to give us one more solid day.
As we talked about last night, low level moisture is trapped in the lower levels underneath an inversion.
Did you see it? That elusive fireball in the sky revealed itself for a few short intervals this afternoon...ironically, the longest interval of sun occurred on the Cape.
So the powerful ocean storm is now 400 miles off the coast of Cape Cod yet nothing has changed, it's still cloudy, cool and wet. you don't have to go very far to get into very nice weather including bright sunshine
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We will avoid substantial rain from this storm...but it will be wet at times as waves of moisture work in from the north and east.
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Brief ridging will occur in the wake of a cut-off low to our north tomorrow supplying us with sun and warmth...take advantage if you can because the weekend isn't looking as favorable.
A coldfront is slowing down as it moves through the Northeast...we still have some wet weather and showers will continue through the first half of the night. The air will gradually dry out as lower dewpoints work in from the west by morning wholes in the overcast will be seen.
Tomorrow won't be so kind to us. A coldfront will be marching through in the early afternoon this will be loaded with showers and downpours...also, thunderstorms parameters will creep up preceding the passage and there will be a small threat tomorrow afternoon.
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After several beautiful days in a row, clouds are rolling in now and we will enter an unsettled stretch this week. Low pressure in the Ohio Valley is evolving and migrating our way...this will be a slow evolution and migration.
The high in Boston today reached 75...without the humidity...it was nearly perfect!
Dew points were at Summer levels today in the 60s and with a front in the vicinity, that moisture was rung out in the form of showers and storms.
It took a while but Boston finally broke 70 and touched 79 briefly earlier this afternoon. Since then, stronger southerly winds coming have been coming up from the cooler coastal waters south of New England which has both cooled us down but also added moisture to the air and low clouds and fog are filling back in.
It was a fun day to watch...temps were all over the place as expected and briefly the warmfront made it through MetroWest and into Boston but the interior heating promoted a seabreeze and pushed that warm air back to the west where it lies right now.
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We had a taste of warmth yesterday with highs reaching into the 70s for Easter Sunday but since then, high pressure has been strengthening to our north changing our wind direction and pushing cooler maritime air back into Eastern New England.
A slow moving storm system will traverse New England over the weekend...with a warmfront producing steady rain tomorrow from 6AM to 3PM...we are looking at about .5"...so a healthy rainfall.
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