Expect ‘chilly, rainy’ weather
The coming week will kick off with a couple of “chilly, rainy” fall days before warming up and offering some hope for nicer weather over Columbus Day weekend, meteorologists are predicting.
“A bout of heavier rain is coming in through Tuesday and we’re expecting up to 2 inches of rain across central Massachusetts and parts of eastern Massachusetts,” said Kristie Smith, a meteorologist with the U.S. Weather Service in Norton.
Today could shape up to be the “coldest we’ve seen so far this season,” Smith said, with a 90% chance of rain and temperatures in the low 60s and dropping into the high 50s overnight.
Tuesday promises to bring more rain and bouts of patchy fog, but will bring warmer temps. Temperatures will climb into the mid to high 60s then drop into the 50s as rain clears out overnight.
After a high pressure system moves in midweek, Wednesday and Thursday will bring “increasing sun” before a clouds return on Friday as temps linger in the low 70s.
Saturday will be partly sunny, with chances of showers returning on Sunday.
Smith said “it looks pretty OK for the upcoming holiday weekend.”
“It’s looking all right now — a little hit or miss with some showers and some opportunities to enjoy the outdoors,” Smith said. “It certainly is not going to be a washout.”
Hurricane season won’t impact the Northeast too much this week, as Hurricane Sam in the mid-Atlantic Ocean finally devolved from a major hurricane Sunday after spending more than a week over Category 3 status.
Meanwhile, Tropical Depression Victor continued to fall apart, but the National Hurricane Center began investigating a system closer to Florida.
Located over the southeastern Bahamas near southwestern Atlantic waters is a large area of disorganized cloudiness and showers associated with a surface trough that could form into the next tropical depression or storm, according to the National Hurricane Center .
The system has only a 10% chance of forming in the next two days, and 20% in the next five.
If it were to spin up into a system with 39 mph sustained winds or greater, it would become Tropical Storm Wanda, the last name of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season list before the National Hurricane Center would move to a second alphabet.
Only 2005 and the recordbreaking 2020 had to use more than 21 names in a single hurricane season.