St. Patrick’s Parade Forecast
Posted by Joe Joyce Today at 10:25 am (11 hours ago)
THE FORECAST:
Morning
Heavy Flooding Rain & Strong Winds . Temps in the 30’s to Near 40 NE winds gusting 35 to 55 mph at the coast.
Afternoon
Heavy Rain will lift north by the midday & afternoon….lingering lighter showers persist. Windy, cool and raw. Highs Near 42. NE wind 30 to 40 mph
NECN Programming Notes
NECN will be airing the famous St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast. Starting 10 AM Sunday until 12:30 PM
Also! Do you want to watch the Parade but do not feel like braving the rain & wind?
Stay Dry and watch Comcast! Turn on Channel 283….or Channel 12 for Boston/Brookline!
We will be broadcasting the Parade Live from 12:30 PM-3 PM in all it’s Irish Glory!
Weekend Nor’easter Update
Posted by Joe Joyce Yesterday at 1:57 pm
Heavy Rain and wind has pushed into New England Saturday Afternoon. Winds have gusted over 60 mph in Greenwich, CT. 60 mph gust at New London, CT. 56 mph gust at Marstons Mills on the Cape. These winds have been taking down trees and power lines. These damaging winds will shift from the Cape up through eastern MA during the early morning hours. A High wind warning has been issued for NE winds 35 to 45 mph, Gusts to 60+ mph. These Strong winds are penetrating into the interior hills too! The strongest gusts will occur at the coast.
Heavy rain is producing hazardous and blinding travel tonight in downpours. Rapid rises on rivers and streams with plenty of urban flooding through tomorrow morning.
Heaviest rain will be found in Eastern Massachusetts where 3-5+” could fall by the time this is all over. Lighter amounts of rain on the Cape & in western Valleys..The rain and wind will be heavy Sunday morning and gradually work it’s way up the coast into Northern New England by Midday Sunday and Sunday afternoon. Sunday will be a very chilly raw day as highs will struggle to reach 40 degrees in the rain and wind. The morning deluge will taper to a lighter rain south for the afternoon…so conditions will become slightly better for the St. Patrick’s parade in Southie….though it will still be raining on our Parade…the worst of the storm will be winding down. Full weather Discussion Inside! Read more
Winter Is On The Run!
Posted by Joe Joyce March 6, 2010 (1 week ago) at 7:07 pm
Now that is more like it! The feel of spring is in the air this weekend with temps averaging 10-15 degrees above normal. Mild daytime highs in the 40’s and 50’s and cool crisp nights below freezing is ideal weather for maple sugaring. March is known as maple sugar month after all. All over New England buckets are collecting sap from the maple trees.
With the Sun setting past 5:30 PM, The Sun is getting higher in the sky too. The stronger radiation reaching the Northen Hemisphere up to our latitudes, is really helping to eat away our snowcover. This is a good thing! We want to avoid any flooding problems with still plenty of snow in our Northwest hills. A heavy rain event with mild temperatures could create bad flooding from New England down through the Mid-Altlantic. This is something to watch out for in the coming weeks. Skiers should watch out for sunburn!
Higher elevations are closer to the stronger radiation….with the sunlight reflecting off the snow….this is a double whammy this time of year. Bring the sunscreen!
High Pressure has supplied a bone dry airmass this weekend with dewpoints in the teens, and relative humidities around 15-25%. This dry airmass, with a slight breeze helped to form scattered brushfires across New England yesterday…and could do it again today. After a cool start Sunday, more sunshine and mild temps by afternoon with highs once again in the 50’s! Some areas could approach 60 degrees in southern New England. The mild regime will last into Monday, before a cold front will bring in a cooler more typical March airmass for the midweek.
Another Pacific storm is slamming into California. This will take a while to reach us as it runs up against blocking high pressure across New England. This storm will reach us by Friday into Saturday as the low tracks south of us. Right now…it looks more wet than white, but this will be wrapping up into a potent storm providing gusty winds at the coast. It appears a series of lows will track south of us into Sunday. Temps will have a cooling trend, so by later Saturday into Sunday….some of the moisture may begin to mix with wet snow in the Northwest hills.
Looking ahead to Daylight Savings time which begins next Sunday Morning (2 AM). We will be springing ahead 1 hour.. the sun will be setting at 6:49….so gone will be the early sunsets….with more sunlight to end our days coming home from work or school!
Officially 2 more weeks until the Vernal Equinox…only 13 days away! Winter is simply runnig out of time. The winter pattern we have seen for most of the winter has broken down. The Sun is getting stronger, and there is little Arctic air in North America. The back of winter has been broken…but there is still a little more gas left in the tank which we still have to empty before we will really be into spring. So while there is not alot of cold air in the pattern, the atmophere will still remain active as we transition from winter to spring. There is still plenty of high latitude blocking, with an active subtropical jetstream delivering el-nino type storms into the nation. This is creating a split flow to the jet…which could easily come together off the east coast and direct storms up the northeast if everything comes together just right….with our next chance for storm development being next weekend.
Spring fever abounds this weekend! Enjoy it. It’s a sign of things to come, but just not immediately….in fact, we may likely not be this warm again until the end of March! Cooler air to come….just not cold. This has been the case most of the winter….cool not cold….thus snow….just not accumulating. What a meteorological headache this winter has been. Nice for Mother Nature to throw us all a bone!
The Sugar is Running This Weekend!
Posted by Joe Joyce March 6, 2010 (1 week ago) at 8:40 am
With temps in the 40’s and 50’s during the day, and lows near freezing with clear cool nights, the weather is perfect for Maple Sugaring! Can you think of a better way to spend the weekend, teaching the kids what life was like in the early 1800’s?! A time when the country was being settled. A time when the kids had to work too!
Historians at Old Sturbridge Village will demonstrate maple sugar making at the Village’s own working “Sugar Camp” from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays each weekend in March. Visitors can see the entire sugar-making process, from tapping the trees to “sugaring off,” and will learn why maple sugar was more commonly used than maple syrup in early New England.
Some early farm families, especially in northern New England, tapped 100 trees or more for a yield of 400 pounds of sugar each season. Women and children helped with the sugaring, and it was often a social occasion for friends and neighbors. The children’s favorite taste treat – maple snow – was actually the result of testing the syrup’s consistency before granulating it for storage, according to Old Sturbridge Village historians.
The maple sap flows best when the days are above freezing and the nights are below freezing. Each maple tree can produce up to 20 gallons of sap per tap during an average year, with each tap yielding an average of four pounds of sugar per season. It takes 40 gallons of sap (or more) to make a gallon of syrup.
Breaking Down The Block….But Another Storm Backs IN!
Posted by Joe Joyce February 27, 2010 (2 weeks ago) at 7:47 pm
The blocking pattern we have been stuck in for the past month is finally starting to break down. Through much of the month of February we were on the more favorable side of the block as we watched storms stay south. As we know, last week we got slammed with heavy snow in the mountains and damaging winds at the coast. I am pleased to say that they weather looks a little more progressive in the coming days…meaning it keeps moving along…which is what weather is supposed to do. Before we get out of this atmospheric traffic jam, there are still a few pieces of energy we have to watch. Read More of the Forecast Discussion Inside Read more
Watch for Thin Ice… Ice on Ponds & Lakes Extremely Dangerous Due to Warmth
Posted by Joe Joyce February 20, 2010 (3 weeks ago) at 7:51 pm
Thin Ice: Sebago Lake Fishing Derby Cancelled for Sunday
The Maine Warden Service is telling people to stay off Sebago Lake after several people and vehicles went through the ice on Saturday. The Sebago Lake Rotary, organizers of the Ice Fishing Derby on Sebago Lake, have cancelled the event for Sunday, meaning no fish will be accepted for weigh-in. Organizers say the Speed Run snowmobile race, scheduled to get underway on Raymond Beach at 9 AM Sunday, will still go on as planned.
According to Game Wardens, the ice on Sebago Lake is extremely unsafe. On Saturday, seven people were pulled from the water after falling thtough the ice. Several vehicles, including ATVs, snowmobiles, cars and trucks, also broke through the ice. Wardens say above-average tempertures are causing melting and ice thinning, not only on Sebago Lake, but on other waterways across the state.
Enjoy the Weekend…We Are About To Get Blocked!
Posted by Joe Joyce February 20, 2010 (3 weeks ago) at 9:11 am
An Upper level low in place over the Canadian Maritimes continues to wrap in a persistant NW drying breeze into New England this weekend. This low is wrapping in warmer air in from the ocean and tapping into an old “stale” polar airmass in Quebec. This means temperatures will be quite nice this weekend averaging in the 30’s and lwr 40’s. Plenty of sunshine will be found southern and coastal locations….but upsloping winds over the mountains will help to form clouds in our Northwest mountains and periodic snow showers and flurries…especially for north-facing slopes. A spring-like feel will be in the air before our next storm arrives Tuesday. A complex pattern is shaping up which evolves around atmospheric blocking and a charge of reinvigorated Arctic Air spilling in from the North Pole. This all promises to provide a very unsettled pattern which will last right through next weekend….for an extended period of snow inland and a rainy mix at the coast. Full Discussion Inside! Read more
Snow Blankets Entire United States….Except Hawaii
Posted by Joe Joyce February 13, 2010 (4 weeks ago) at 11:51 am
As of February 13, 2010, all 49 states to have some sort of snow on the ground. The record breaking snowfall has affected Texas through the Gulf States, and Carolinas…even the Florida panhandle, Cape Hatteras, and Myrtle Beach had snow last night! This is an extremely rare event for all states to have snow on the ground at the same time. Soak it in…you may not see something like this as long as you live! Read more
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