What a day today! Even warmer than yesterday. Temperature in Boston reached 60 today and it felt even warmer. 60 degrees after winter weather for several months always feels warmer. We were lucky this past weekend.
Usually, these late winter/early spring warm ups are not as nice near the coast because of the wind off the water, but yesterday and today's strong southwest winds completely blocked any cooling by the ocean.
A cooler wind follows a cold front that moves through tonight, with our air for the next few days flowing from the colder northwest. It will be cooler, but still very reasonable for early March with highs in the mid to upper 40's on Tuesday and Wednesday and plenty of sunshine as well. Clear nights for some good star viewing too!!
Thursday is our day of transition. We have made a deal with the weather devil. In exchange for our awesome weather this past weekend, we can expect miserable conditions for the upcoming weekend. No snow, as we just don't have any cold air around, but all signs point to a very big and extended rain storm. Just take a look at the map above and you can see what lies in the future for us. 2+ inches of rain in 48 hours starting on Friday. Yuck.
The culprit will be another ocean storm that gets sucked back to the west by another cut off upper level low over the midwest and a big blocking high pressure system over the Atlantic. This will mark the third storm that has behaved this way in the past month. What gives? I am not really sure to be honest. It's a bit above my knowledge level and to tell you the truth, a bit above anyone's knowledge level when it comes to the atmosphere. You would be surprised at the limit of understanding that we have about the weather, even with all of those fancy radars and phone applications. It remains a very complex science to pin down.
Anyways, I am done ranting about how hard it is to predict weather. I am sure there are a lot of sympathetic ears out there. I leave you with this thought:
Have you noticed how the media is all hyped up on earthquakes right now? Granted, there have been two huge ones in the past few weeks, but where was this coverage before? I hate to break it to you people, but earthquakes happen at astonishingly regular intervals and most of them are hardly news worthy. I am going to take advantage of this hype and call in a false earthquake alarm to Fox 25 and see if they bite.
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