After several days of stormy or at least unsettled conditions, tranquil weather will pay a brief visit to the region today before our next storm approaches starting tomorrow. Skies are clear across the region this morning and should remain at least mostly clear through sunset (best chance for clouds will be up north). Southwest breezes will push milder air into the region and temps will rise accordingly. Look for highs in the mid 30s up north and mid/upper 40s south. A few show showers are possible in the mountains later this afternoon but otherwise, we’ll stay dry.
Today will feature cooler weather as the storm that has been impacting the region for the past few days weakens to our north. Look for high temps ranging from the low 30s up in the mountains to the mid 40s near the coast. SW winds will remain gusty throughout the day, ironically bringing colder air into the region from NY/PA. A disturbance embedded within this SW flow pattern will cross the region late this afternoon into the early evening hours. Its primary impact will be providing a focal point for cloud/shower development in the mountains/foothills. Most of these showers will fall as snow though they won’t linger long enough in any given spot to drop more than a coating. A few flakes may even try to stray towards the coastline later in the evening. Before that front arrives, skies will be partly to mostly sunny.
The storm that brought heavy rain to the region yesterday evening and knocked power out for nearly 100,000 of us last night is still producing unsettled weather across the area this morning. Winds are still gusty from the southeast, though not nearly as strong as last night. Rain is still falling, especially away from the coastline but is not nearly as heavy as yesterday afternoon. Temperatures this morning are anomalously warm, ranging from the upper 50s in much of Maine to the low 60s in NH. As an interesting footnote, this makes us the second-warmest part of the nation this morning, narrowly beating out southern California (low 50s) and coming in just behind the Florida Keys (upper 60s).
Radar imagery this morning shows light showers in progress over our area while a batch of steadier/heavier rain lurks east of Cape Cod. This rain will be pulled north this morning and may even try to retrograde back to the west a bit thanks to some interesting dynamics aloft.
This forecast map does a pretty good job sketching out who will see the heaviest rain late this morning into early this afternoon. Points northeast of Brunswick/Augusta will get the steadiest and heaviest rain which will add up to another 0.5-1.5″. This is where the strongest winds will be found too, though gusts around 40-45 mph will do a lot less damage than last night’s 55-65 mph gusts. As you move farther west, winds will be considerably lighter and rain will take the form of more scattered showers rather than a steady soaking.
High temps today are pretty much happening right now, though temps might jump another couple degrees over the next couple hours before colder air arrives from the southwest. By 7 PM, temps will be falling into the mid 30s over NH, mid 40s over western Maine, and low 50s over eastern Maine. Much of the western half of the area will dip below freezing by tomorrow morning which could produce some slick spots on the roads as leftover moisture freezes up.
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