A Coastal Storm May Bring Rain & Windy Conditions To Western & Central Mass From Friday Through This Weekend

For The Rest Of This Afternoon & Tonight: An area of high pressure is expected to control the weather throughout the rest of this afternoon and tonight.

Sunny to partly sunny skies are expected throughout the rest of this afternoon. Temperatures will be around 65 Degrees. Winds will be North to Northeast at 10 to 15 mph.

Partly cloudy skies are expected during this evening with cloudy skies expected during the after midnight hours. Low temperatures will be near 45 Degrees. Winds will be Northeast at around 10 mph.

Tuesday Through Thursday: A big high pressure system is expected to be anchored across Quebec province throughout this week. This will lead to a cool east to northeasterly wind to be in place across the region. Meanwhile, an area of low pressure is expected to take shape offshore of the North Carolina coast on Wednesday. The exact track of this low pressure system is going to be extremely important in determining what the weather is going to be like from Friday through this weekend. More on that later in this forecast.

Tuesday will start out cloudy, but skies will become partly sunny by afternoon. High temperatures will be around 60 Degrees. Winds will be Northeast at 10 to 15 mph.

Wednesday looks partly sunny with high temperatures around 60 Degrees. Winds will be Northeast at 10 to 15 mph.

Thursday is expected to be partly sunny with high temperatures between 60 and 65 Degrees.

A Coastal Storm May Bring Rain & Windy Conditions From Friday Through This Weekend: As I already mentioned, an area of low pressure is expected to develop offshore of the North Carolina coast during Wednesday. There is a considerable amount of uncertainty as to where exactly this low pressure system will track in relation to Southern New England.

There is a large range in possible outcomes depending on which weather forecast guidance you look at. These outcomes include a low pressure system that stays well offshore of the New England coast late this week and this weekend. In this scenario, we’d be left with a dry, but windy weekend across the entire area. Another possible outcome is for the low pressure system to track northwestward and even westward and move very close to the south coast of New England. In this scenario, we’d see rain, which could be heavy at times, from Friday through all of this weekend. In addition, it would be windy throughout the period from Friday through this weekend. This all means that the forecast for late this week and this weekend is highly uncertain, but it is a forecast that needs close monitoring given the possibility of a wind-swept heavy rain for at least a couple of days late this week and this weekend.

For now, this is what I’m thinking based on all of the available latest weather data:

Friday will be cloudy & it is probably going to rain throughout the day. In addition, it will be windy with northeast winds of 20 to 30 mph with higher gusts. High temperatures will be between 55 and 60 Degrees.

Rain is then expected to continue through Friday night and probably all day Saturday. In addition, it will continue to be windy with northeast winds of 20 to 30 mph with higher gusts. Low temperatures Friday night will be between 45 and 50 Degrees. High temperatures Saturday will be around 60 Degrees.

Sunday looks cloudy & there could be some intermittent periods of rain at times during the day. Sunday also looks windy with northeast winds of 15 to 25 mph with higher gusts. High temperatures will be around 60 Degrees.

Given the high amount of uncertainty with the late week and weekend forecast, I urge everyone to keep up-to-date with the latest forecasts as they will likely change in the coming days. Many more updates will be posted throughout the coming days.