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Heat Advisories in Effect Across New England as Temps, Humidity Rise
Heat advisories are in effect for much of inland southern and central New England Sunday. Temperatures near 90 degrees, along with high humidity, generate a heat index in the mid 90s.
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Heat Wave Coming: Extremely High Temps, Humidity Start Off Week
We are warming up in New England, with limited sunshine Saturday and a brighter day Sunday. As humidity builds, we have equal amounts of clouds and sunshine Saturday afternoon, with the fog mostly burned off at the ocean. Temperatures are back into the 80s after a couple of very pleasant low humidity days, with wind from the south gusting past…
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Heat and Humidity Build This Weekend
A very weak wave of tropical energy swirled over southeastern New England today. A few locations picked up more than a third of an inch of rain, from eastern Massachusetts to the Maine mid-coast, where we have had some thunder around lunchtime. In western and northern New England we had sunshine with highs near 80, even as temperatures stuck in the...
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Clear, Comfortable Night Ahead for Near Full ‘Strawberry' Moon
Wednesday has been day one of a two-day weather winning streak. We are winning because fresh air from Canada brought in sunshine Wednesday with comfortably mild and dry air — and no thunderstorms. Temperatures are only in the 60s to low 70, and the dew point is way down in the 40s. That means we will have a clear, comfortable…
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Parts of New England Could Wake Up to Heavy Rain Monday Morning
A small area of high pressure is supplying us with a sunny Sunday for the most part. There are a few instability cumulus clouds, just a slight chance of scattered sprinkle around dinner time. It’s warmer today with a breeze from the west and southwest at 10 to 20 mph, and a high temperature in the low 80s. A front...
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Rain Ends, Sun and Clouds Stick Around Through Sunday
Mother nature offered up a nice drink of water for a small portion of New England last night. A stripe of rain stretched from southern Vermont and western Massachusetts across into eastern Massachusetts in the predawn hours, with up to 3/4 of an inch just north of Boston. In the state of Maine there was not any rain at all….
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One Last Round of Storms Before Heat Wave's End in Mass., NH
Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued for parts of Connecticut Wednesday afternoon, with the storms capable of 60 mph wind gusts and quarter-sized hail. See severe weather alerts for your area here. High temperatures fell just shy of 90 in many places Wednesday, but the humidity kicked the heat up a bit once again, with heat index in the low to…
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Severe Thunderstorms Bring Damage to Parts of New England
Severe weather warnings for flash flooding, severe thunderstorms or both were lifted Tuesday evening in parts of central New England, including in Boston itself, amid oppressive heat and humid weather that will continue through Wednesday evening. See any severe weather alerts in your area here. Lightning and wind damage were reported across the region, with gusts threatening up to 60…
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How to See the Eclipse in Mass. Thursday and How It Will Look to Us
We have a new moon Thursday, and it will be part of an eclipse that’s visible from New England. The June moon is called the “Strawberry Moon,” and it will pass between the Earth and sun at sunrise Thursday morning. As the sun rises, the solar eclipse will be underway for us in New England. The moon passes in front of the...
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Heat Wave Begins, Along With Threat For More Storms
The thunderstorm threat diminishes today for most of New England, with the exception of far northern Vermont through northern New Hampshire, into much of Central and Northern Maine. Yesterday’s storms were quite intense especially over Connecticut where more than 3 inches of rain fell locally just east of Hartford. That southern front pushed just far enough offshore that Southern new…
