Climate Outlook

Today is a fairly quiet day in New England weather, with most areas seeing cool temperatures and cloudy skies. Cape Cod has seen some rain, but other than that, we've been dry and cloudy.  I thought it would be a good day to look ahead in the next 2 weeks to see how temperatures and precipitation will look.

First we'll take a look at NOAA's Centers for Climate Prediction (CPC) 6-10 climate outlook released today (April 20). The large area of red on the map is where temperatures will be above average over the next 6-10 days, and the blue shows areas that'll be below average.  So the big story is cool in the East and hot out West.  As far as precipitation goes, the map on the right shows that we'll be on the wetter side in New England, while the rest of the country remains dry.

And just for fun, here's a look at the same maps, out to 8-14 days. This cold and wet pattern looks to remain in place.  If this were winter, we'd be in for a snowy one, but of course it comes during April.

 

That's all for today, tomorrow I'll look at the storm threat in the northeast... could be a fun weather day!