Good morning everybody, after our patchy fog burns off by mid morning or so, we’ll enjoy a nice day with light northwest flow, mostly sunny skies, and highs in the mid 70s to low 80s.
For tonight, humidity will start to come back up and clouds will increase. Lows will drop into the low 60s on average.
A storm system will be tracking east out of the Great Lakes region and floating a warm front our way.
Along this warm front, showers and a few thunderstorms are expected to develop overnight, and so in the late pre-dawn hours into the morning we’ll see some scattered showers and storms, and we can’t rule out a stronger storm or two.
After this morning activity, the warm front will push deeper through our region (certainly deeper than yesterday’s front which barely made it into southwest MA briefly).
This is where things get tricky, in that we don’t know how much leftover morning moisture will remain in the form of mixed-sky cloudiness, or if we can actually break into periods of sunshine to allow some more robust heating of the surface.
It will be humid, and highs will reach the mid to upper 70s and southwest winds could gust over 20mph at times.
If we can get some sunshine in here, the expected second round of post-warm-frontal showers ahead of an incoming cold front draped off of the eastward-tracking low that will pass to our north could blossom, and produce a few strong to severe thunderstorms with straight line wind gusts being the primary threat, along with some showers and downpours.
If the cloudiness remains dominant, than scattered non-severe thunderstorms, showers and downpours will be expected.
Regardless, by the late in the afternoon or early evening a thin squall line should form, with a final line of storms moving through the region as the warm and humid air is swept out to sea later on Saturday night, when lows should drop into the upper 50s to low 60s.
Aside from a spot shower early on Sunday, Sunday and Monday look beautiful, much drier, and cooler with highs in the low to mid 70s under mostly sunny skies, with lows in the low 50s.
Tuesday looks similar temperature-wise, but clouds will be on the increase, and some showers could arrive Tuesday night thanks to another warm front that will be approaching.
Wednesday into the end of the week looks warmer, more humid, and showery with some thunderstorms possible, but highs shouldn’t get higher than the mid 80s, so no heat waves on the way as we move into September!
Have a great day!