A Dry Weekend Is Looking Increasingly More Possible Across Western & Central Mass

For Tonight: Cloudy skies this evening will give way to partly cloudy skies late tonight. Low temperatures will be near 45 Degrees. Winds will be West at 5 to 10 mph. Thursday: Sunny to partly sunny skies in the morning should give way to a mixture of some sunshine and lots of clouds during the afternoon. High temperatures will be near 65 Degrees. Winds will be West at 10 to 20 mph. Friday: A northwest wind flow will lead to a slightly cooler day on Friday under sunny to partly sunny skies. High temperatures will be between 60 and 65 Degrees. Winds will be Northwest at 10 to 20 mph. This Weekend: There’s hope that we could end up with dry weather this weekend across the entire area. While there is still likely to be the formation of a coastal storm near the Mid-Atlantic coast on Saturday and Saturday night, it is looking increasingly more possible that this storm will track nearly due east and remain far enough south not to be a concern in terms of rain. That said, this is not set in stone and this storm could still track just close enough to the area to give parts of the area some rain on Saturday night and Sunday. For now, it looks like Saturday should be cloudy with any rain holding off until evening. High temperatures will be between 55 and 60 Degrees. For Saturday night, I think that we’ll see periods of light rain across the entire area. Low temperatures will be near 45 Degrees. Sunday looks cloudy with some periods of light rain from time to time. High temperatures will be near 55 Degrees. Given the more southerly track of that coastal storm, it appears that rain totals may range from as little as one tenth of an inch (0.10”) to one quarter of an inch (0.25”) along the Route 2 corridor to around one half of an inch (0.50”) of rainfall across areas near and especially south of the Mass Pike. Now if that coastal storm’s track continues to trend further south, it would mean less rain and the potential for a dry weekend across most areas. On the other hand though, should this coastal storm’s track trend back to the north, it would mean much more rain across the area. For me, I’m definitely hoping for an out to sea track and no rain at all this weekend.