Springfield, Massachusetts
Massachusetts. I just wanted to write that one more time, because I have had a tough time spelling that in the past. Are you excited for a New England forecast? I sure am. Spent a lot of time in the southern US lately.
At 355PM, ET, Springfield was reporting a temperature of 60 degrees with clear skies and haze. This was all somewhat misleading, however, as an upper air system moving through the eastern US was triggering a band of rain showers from central Vermont southwest through New York, all while generating severe weather in the Carolinas.
A system is going to bomb out into the Plains over the next 12 hours and absorb the upper level trough in the East. After it starts to rain in Springfield tonight, the town won't ever really clear out tomorrow. Tuesday will be mostly dreary with some shower activity leftover from the upper low, but a seasonably strong cold front will arrive on Wednesday morning. The system is dynamic enough that there is a chance for some early morning, late season thunderstorms. Heavy, flooding rain will be a possibility through the day on Wednesday.
Tomorrow - Mostly cloudy with some passing showers, High 69, Low 53
Wednesday - All day rain with some embedded thunderstorms, High 69, Low 51 (non standard)
TWC: Tomorrow - Cloudy skies. High 72, Low 60
Wednesday - Cloudy with showers and thunderstorms High 72, Low 62
AW: Tomorrow - Some sun with a shower, warm; fog in the morning High 71, Low 53
Wednesday - Mostly cloudy and warm with a couple of showers High 70, Low 52
NWS: Tomorrow- A slight chance of showers before 9am. Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, partly sunny High 69, Low 57
Wednesday - Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Patchy fog between 8am and 11am High 71, Low 55
WB: Tomorrow - Cloudy with showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the morning then partly sunny in the afternoon, High 70, Low 55
Wednesday - Showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the morning then showers likely in the afternoon, High 72, Low 59
This is going to be a nasty system, no doubt, but it will be at it's nastiest over the Great Lakes, fortunately for those in Springfield. Here is the rain in the area already ongoing.
