Relaxing Informative Entertaining New England Ten Day Weather Forecast Contemporaneous Nature Video

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]Morning, Steve.

[00:00:01]Morning, T-Rex. Are you ready to start a new work week?

[00:00:04]Two, three, and three, and that's right.

[00:00:07][laughter] It's a delicate balance.

[00:00:10]The triple hop.

[00:00:12]And a fluffy tail out the door at 8:10 a.m. on Monday, May 18th, 65.7 outdoors, 67 indoors.

[00:00:21]Upstairs, [music] indoors, yesterday was 83. Outdoors, >> [music] >> Boston got to 90°.

[00:00:30]No man or machine forecast that. We're pushing 70 now, but we've also had a little bit of a front go by. So, we've got a little high pressure system to the north in Canada that pushed down a more comfortable, if it was too hot for you yesterday, air mass. That's only going to last 1 day. The heat is really on again tomorrow. And the temperature this morning, first thing, it was freezing in Portage, Maine.

[00:00:57]Foxbrook, Maine, down to 32°.

[00:01:00]And then, most of New England, just really beautiful morning at 40s, 50s, and 60s to start the day. And there is a little bit of smoke in our sky. Some fires burning throughout the nation. The satellite image this morning does show that kind of ghostly white shade, gray shade, on the satellite.

[00:01:22]Um, most much of southern New England, Pennsylvania. And meanwhile, thicker clouds, cumulonimbus, across northern New York into Vermont, where it's raining a little bit this morning. Uh, we had a a front come down and focused a little bit of energy.

[00:01:37]This morning, looking off to the west here, very low tide. I did see the crescent new moon last night. It was gorgeous with Venus and Jupiter up there.

[00:01:48]Yeah, look at it right there.

[00:01:50]Same direction.

[00:01:52]So, a sun and a storm possible. Look at that little cloud right there. Little altocumulus almost castellanus. I talk about castellanus clouds. Those are the the precursor for thunderstorm clouds.

[00:02:06]And there were some nasty thunderstorms yesterday in the middle of the nation.

[00:02:11]Put together this severe weather map uh report storm reports uh especially hard hit in Iowa with tornadoes. More than 27 tornadoes reported yesterday.

[00:02:24]Flash flooding, wind damage along the boundary between the building heat now pushing into the Eastern United States and the cold to record cold across the Northwest and West. Mammoth Lakes, California this morning was in the mid-20s and here's first light in Casper, Wyoming waking up to snow. Heavy wet snow, 32° in Casper this morning where it was 80 2 days ago. So, yeah, the the heat that started out west is now pushed into the east and it's the boundary between the hot and the cold that generates thunderstorms.

[00:03:02]Here's the radar. Ongoing flooding thunderstorms they are coming across Missouri this morning. Those are sort of remnants from yesterday and they're going to refire again today. And here in the Northeast we have also a little batch of rain coming across New York and Vermont. It's mostly falling apart so decaying showers and storms.

[00:03:22]Meanwhile, we got a a bird on a pole right here. It's kind of fun. Looks like a sparrow.

[00:03:28]Yeah.

[00:03:29]Oh, and goes underneath.

[00:03:32]They live underneath the decking.

[00:03:37]The old decaying decking here.

[00:03:39]And uh Steve is up on the deck looking down at the birds. There's the willow. Uh we're going to talk more about willow seeds and all right. The short range guidance. Talk about thickness a lot. Cold air is dense, so that has lower thickness numbers.

[00:03:57]When that number gets down to 540, you know it's cold enough for snow.

[00:04:02]And then is the the lack of density means the distance between the ground and going up into the sky to the 500 millibar level gets greater.

[00:04:12]And when that gets great all the way up to 570, that's where you get your 90° air. Yesterday we weren't quite at 570, but in by Boston it was a very dynamic situation with down sloping, compressing, heating air.

[00:04:26]Adiabatic heating of the atmosphere yesterday in Boston got us to the record. And the records for this week are from 9 years ago. 9 years ago this week we had a heat wave in Southern New England with temperatures of 90 to 95.

[00:04:40]And those are the temperatures we're going to arrive at again tomorrow.

[00:04:43]So now I'm going to show the HRRR and talk more about those thickness numbers.

[00:04:47]With the red lines, there's no blue line, no cold enough for snow line here.

[00:04:51]We'll see that in the GFS in a little while off to the west and north.

[00:04:55]But here's the HRRR and those showers and thunderstorms just kind of falling apart across Northern New England. And you do see uh the the 570 showing up in spots and away from the coast today.

[00:05:08]Uh we can get to 90° in spots, but uh the 564 there in Maine, that's 84° away from the shore. There's an onshore breeze today with a high to our north.

[00:05:19]And very few isobars, but then the warm front comes through and there are the showers and thunderstorms uh refiring a little bit, especially in uh western regions. Tonight that 570 line sinks south and then tomorrow you see the 570 line expanding across much of New England. So you get 571, 572, 573. They're not shown, but that means temperatures are going to get to 93 tomorrow and the thunderstorms and looking more organized coming across Lake Ontario and to western Pennsylvania and New York and kind of falling apart, uh but a couple of them hold together.

[00:05:51]So, there's a chance for a pop-up hot thunderstorm tomorrow. Uh in Boston, there's one forecast by the H triple R.

[00:05:57]I mean, this is just like shooting darts at about 8:00 tomorrow night. And then, you have a colder front that's going to start coming onto the map way up in Ontario. This goes out to 2:00 a.m. on Wednesday, and you can see those red lines up there. They don't really have numbers on them, but what they are are uh 564 and 558 and 552. They go in uh 6-decameter increments. And that'll be cooler air that's going to come in with a chance of severe weather for us uh coming in on Wednesday, but nothing like the severe weather outbreak that's going to happen again today and the one from yesterday. Here is the forecast from the Severe Storm Prediction Center, and that whole bull's-eye there right over eastern Kansas, uh Oklahoma up into Iowa, all the way up into Wisconsin, threat for tornadoes today and severe thunderstorms with that cold on the back side and warm on the east side. Uh here's another look at the surface map.

[00:06:49]I should have shown this a little while ago. And you have that uh warm front, the red line that's in the northeast with that little green shade with the red boundary, that's the chance for a thunderstorm today and high pressure off to the north, light wind from the east and north in eastern New England today.

[00:07:06]And then, as those storms Look at all that blue up over Wyoming. That's the snowstorm in Wyoming. Uh and that uh whole area of storminess is going to stay off to the west and north of New England for the most part uh until about Wednesday into Thursday. And for Wednesday into Thursday, we're going to go to the Global Forecasting System, the GFS.

[00:07:26]And uh it keeps on waffling on how our Memorial Day weekend's going to play out. I'll tell you the Euro model has a a really not good Memorial Day weekend for New England. The GFS is going back and forth on it. And so, here it is. The blue out there over Wyoming with the blue lines. That's the cold enough for snow and snowstorm in Wyoming pushing into Colorado and Nevada and Utah and tending to lift out. The severe storms are the the reds and the oranges with the thunderstorms pulsing up by day and then kind of decaying by night with a couple of them holding on into New England here and the storm track across the Great Lakes with a Bermuda high. The storms go to our north. That is a wind from the west and southwest and a wind from the southwest means the coastal areas from Connecticut to Cape Cod will be coolest next couple of days. Now there are a lot of isobars. It's going to get quite windy again around here uh heading into Wednesday. The front now is settling south into New England with the threat for some strong thunderstorms possible in New England, especially central and southern New England it looks like on Wednesday and then Thursday we're on the colder side of the front and once again it shows most of the action staying off to the south.

[00:08:34]Every other day it changes. One day it's dry for us, next day it's wet uh in the guidance. And this is for the period Thursday. Yesterday the GFS was really wet on Friday. Well, not even a raindrop there today on Friday.

[00:08:48]And as you get closer confidence tends to build so maybe we start off Memorial Day weekend dry but the front is just to the south and we're going to have high building to the north and upper level cooling and that's going to promote instability and at least showers for our Saturday and Sunday if not a steady rain with temperatures from the northeast.

[00:09:08]Water temperature in the 50s, air temperature to go down in the 50s and low 60s. And then on Memorial Day uh that's when it shows the wave of uh rain coming across on uh Memorial Day Monday and that's kind of how it looked for Friday in yesterday's guidance. So this is going to be really frustrating to watch this weekend's forecast. Call it the unofficial start to summer Memorial Day weekend. It's a little early this year. Earlier it is the tendency for it to be possibly colder and that's kind of how how looks and then we gradually unwind it and now we're going to take this out to day 10, which is Wednesday, May 27th.

[00:09:42]And at that point, it does look like we've got a high pressure system coming at us and uh sort of cool to seasonable air.

[00:09:48]And the heat's been kind of uh building back out west and pushed south in eastern United States as we tend to get a little bit more troughing around here at that point, but you don't see any blue lines. You don't see any cold enough for snow anywhere on the map on this one, so we're going to stop talking about snow as soon as it stops popping up on our maps.

[00:10:07]I heard yesterday was uh really fun.

[00:10:09]Lincoln from the audi- Lincoln from the Adirondacks was out there saying, "Wow, look at the size of these bumps today." I love skiing on stuff like that. You just take it slow and steady. And I heard surfing wasn't too bad either, so surf ski weather uh continues.

[00:10:25]Not so much skiing. Killington is going to be the only resort open in the east and it's coming back open was it Friday or Saturday? I'm not sure. One or the other, Friday or Saturday.

[00:10:35]Yesterday watching the golf uh trying to uh get a grip on the pronunciation of the days yesterday. Set 10 day May uh the Constitution Day from Norway. I had to say that a couple times. And Aaron Niemann Ink. I had such a tough time pronouncing the name. It's funny cuz uh Aaron Rai won the tournament. And he won it at a golf course named Aaron Aaron Niemann Ink. I believe is the proper pronunciation. Just outside of uh Philadelphia where it was a quite a nice day and quite a fun golf day and uh yesterday was a transition day for TK in the old Chase vehicle, which was the orange Jeep. Boy, this thing served me well for a couple of decades now.

[00:11:23]It's going off into its third decade of existence. A potential parted out.

[00:11:30]Uh Scott Andrews is going to take it. He restores Jeeps and, uh, uh, whether he tries to restore it or chops it up and sells the parts or uses the parts for restoration of other Jeeps is yet to be determined, but that Jeep has been moved to Cape Cod, so we're not done looking at that Jeep. But, the TK is, uh, done driving it unless Scott rebuilds it and I buy it back off of him, something like that. Uh, it was a beautiful Jeep or is a beautiful Jeep, it just has a lot of rust. Engine still works, though.

[00:11:56]All right, so, uh, and in the backyard here watching the sunset. Yesterday's weather today is called and more.

[00:12:05]And more on our not in a hurry Sunday, I'm going to creep over to where the baby bunnies are and see if we can't catch them out sunbathing.

[00:12:13]Yeah, doing some mowing, got to do some pruning.

[00:12:16]This all has to be trimmed back.

[00:12:19]And the baby bunnies live right over here.

[00:12:23]No, they're not out of their hole. Where are they?

[00:12:27]Oh, the hole gets filled in. Mommy fills in the hole.

[00:12:31]They're under there.

[00:12:33]A T-Rex was here would find them.

[00:12:36]Did you see that? They're in there.

[00:12:39]Come on, just show us your face.

[00:12:48]There's like five bunnies in there.

[00:12:51]Mommy's in there watching.

[00:12:54]All right, we'll see you later.

[00:12:56]I'll be back up. Go ahead. It's Sunday, not in a hurry Sunday, you can sleep in.

[00:13:02]Just watch out for the dogs.

[00:13:07]11:00 a.m. on our not in a hurry Sunday and we've got a helper. Maine cats love to help.

[00:13:13]I'm editing, almost published, and look at this glorious day.

[00:13:17]We're on a mission to say farewell farewell or bon voyage or next up for the old orange Jeep. The Jeep is way down there and I'm standing waiting, uh, for Scott and there's baby crows. I just know there are baby crows cuz I'm a crowologist and they're over there.

[00:13:34]And the crows I don't know what they're doing. They're gathering for their children and they keep flying across here.

[00:13:43]I love watching all of nature. Blue sky, 83° here.

[00:13:50]Yeah.

[00:13:52]Hingham toy storage and Hingham Auto.

[00:13:55]Spent a lot of time here. Now that I get the new chase van, not as much time.

[00:13:59]I highly recommend Kenny and everybody here.

[00:14:06]I got three people on it, four, five if you include the videographer.

[00:14:17]It definitely been on the beach.

[00:14:20]I should have closed the windows when I was making the videos.

[00:14:23]Rot it from like the dash.

[00:14:28]It actually turned over there a tiny bit.

[00:14:31]Got some spare spark plugs.

[00:14:42]Look, a bunch of parts are not rusted.

[00:14:45]See the parts that aren't rusted?

[00:14:49]We just got a new fan belt recently.

[00:14:51]Look at that. We got a new uh starter.

[00:14:55]Uh not starter. What's that thing called that makes electricity? Alternator.

[00:14:58]Yeah, that thing.

[00:15:00]That thing, that alternator thing.

[00:15:01]>> We don't just Mickey Mouse things around here.

[00:15:03]It's real. These are my heroes from childhood. That's still with you.

[00:15:08]You know.

[00:15:09]Ricochet Rabbit.

[00:15:12]Kung Fu Who's that? Hong Kong Phooey?

[00:15:15]Underdog. I'm trying to think. Oh, Bo Linkle and uh Rocky. Let me guess, you made that shirt yourself.

[00:15:21]>> [laughter] >> Scott is a monk.

[00:15:28]ABC Batteries, may we help you?

[00:15:32]Uh Scott wasn't sure about his backing up trailer skills.

[00:15:45]Scott facing the halves.

[00:15:48]Fitting.

[00:15:51]Seen a lot of beaches.

[00:15:56]And the sticker that lasted the longest, I put this on in 2005.

[00:16:01]Nor'easter Surf Shop has the best stickers. Sugar Bros lasted pretty long, too.

[00:16:05]And actually just expired.

[00:16:08]And there's a brand, well, never used uh top.

[00:16:15]Oh man, can't believe it.

[00:16:17]>> You okay? Yeah, I'm okay. Thanks. How are you? I mean, you.

[00:16:22]Uh there goes uh two decades of the TK Weather experience.

[00:16:27]Lot of surfing, lot of sand.

[00:16:30]Going to miss you. Well, actually it's going to the next door in the Cape. And then here's the next 20 years of the TK Weather experience. You see the billboard right here?

[00:16:38]Uh I love that burnt orange Jeep. This does have all-wheel drive, but we're not going to be taking that in the sand.

[00:16:45]But we do chase chase surf and ski.

[00:16:48]And let's get on with it.

[00:16:50]Not in a hurry Sunday, back to the backyard.

[00:16:52]This is the backyard.

[00:16:54]Kind of. An extension.

[00:16:57]Got some cumulus. Little instability going on.

[00:17:01]Hey Bobby ski, Danny.

[00:17:04]Tis the season. Bobby, bringing your boat down here this year?

[00:17:08]Kind of quiet right this second.

[00:17:10]But I'm sure this thing's busy.

[00:17:14]It's a called this thing that launches the boats.

[00:17:17]Called a big crane type thing.

[00:17:21]And Danny's in Florida, and there's Danny's Weymouth residence, if you want to come back.

[00:17:28]It's summer time, and it's probably going to be cooler here every day than it is in Florida.

[00:17:33]For the most part, and we have 88° on the dashboard thermometer right this second.

[00:17:39]Expecting a wind shift. There's some cumulus clouds with a little back door front.

[00:17:45]Possible.

[00:17:47]Oh yeah, got to feed the babies. It's papa cardinal.

[00:17:50]We're back in the real backyard now. And so those cumulus, do we do have a weak front? We talked about it. Uh front's pressing south, but clearly we're still ahead of the front with the wind from the west.

[00:18:01]T-Rex on his midday out the door.

[00:18:05]And we can look down at the beach and talk about uh this It's a very subtle boundary. So, you get some surface convergence, and there's somewhat cooler air aloft coming in.

[00:18:13]And I'm Yeah, interesting time lapse. We didn't show the time lapse of uh Friday because it was boring.

[00:18:20]And we showed the time lapse the next day, of course. So, boaters are boating, cumulus are building. It's going to be an interesting time lapse.

[00:18:29]Kids are on the beach playing volleyball.

[00:18:32]I missed that. They don't have a net. I have a net. Should I bring my net down there?

[00:18:38]So, watch to see if the wind does not relax and come around and land us on a sea breeze, like I said about the last 3 days. I was talking about the wind going to go light and come could come on shore late in the day.

[00:18:48]And Rex is grooming in the less smelly terrain yesterday.

[00:18:53]Alex's T-Rex and my T-Rex were down there, and there was something really godawful smelly down there.

[00:18:59]So, we're not going down there for a while again.

[00:19:02]How's your T-Rex smelling today, Alexander? Are you in a gunquit? Are you in Vermont?

[00:19:08]Past 3:00, Boston 86, Westfield 88.

[00:19:11]Expected the well under the 80s west, but thought maybe the wind would come on shore in Boston by this afternoon. Nope.

[00:19:17]That was not a good forecast.

[00:19:19]From days ago and even hours ago. But I don't hear too many people complaining.

[00:19:23]There's Boston. Sun is approaching the horizon.

[00:19:26]And the rabbits have not emerged. And so I was concerned. I looked it up and it says mother rabbits are fiercely protective and they will stay away during the day and come back and nurse at night. So babies are in there. They're doing fine.

[00:19:45]We might get a view of them.

[00:19:48]And we've been spending some time watching the golf, which is really fun.

[00:19:50]Rex, where do you think you're going?

[00:19:52]Nope, other way. Nope, go back in there.

[00:19:55]Right.

[00:19:56]You're not allowed on that side of the house because that's where the cars go by. You can come out this way though.

[00:20:02]And we can take attendance. Has anyone seen Steve?

[00:20:05]Steve seems to love the deck.

[00:20:10]Birds are living in the rafters just below where he is.

[00:20:13]>> [laughter] >> And Mint wandered out and guess where Mint went?

[00:20:17]His favorite spot in the world.

[00:20:20]Mint adjacent in the shadow of the cat.

[00:20:24]Mint.

[00:20:25]We just did some weeding and some watering.

[00:20:28]And we still have a wind from the west-northwest and the temperature in Boston got to 90° today at Logan Airport.

[00:20:35]No man or machine, I don't believe, had forecast that.

[00:20:39]I was thinking it would be a back door front.

[00:20:41]Not.

[00:20:43]So everyone's enjoying the beach and the water even though it's pretty chilly.

[00:20:48]People enjoying the water.

[00:20:50]And planes are landing toward the west.

[00:20:54]And when you have a west-northwest wind in Massachusetts, Boston's going to be the warmest spot down sloping from the high country in southern New Hampshire and Worcester County.

[00:21:05]And I think we will show the time lapse today because there were some cumulus clouds.

[00:21:10]But we'll let the sun get a little closer to the horizon before the music and the end.

[00:21:17]New moon, right there. See it? Not.

[00:21:21]7:44 still very warm, but at least the wind has let up, which is The time lapse goes 2 minutes, but I I usually consolidate it and shrink it to 30 seconds.

[00:21:35]And we did have those cumulus and quite a breeze from the north west and west.

[00:21:43]Warm air coming out of southeastern Canada.

[00:21:47]And the front just did not make it through. The clouds got here on our doorstep and then they fell apart.

[00:21:58]Oh, Mint moved a little muscle. He's stretching his right paw into the catnip.

[00:22:04]Steve is looking over at the critters.

[00:22:07]Now let's run the Cape Cod time lapse.

[00:22:12]It was a little smoky on Cape Cod this morning, I think.

[00:22:16]Fires are burning in Texas and New Mexico and Minnesota.

[00:22:23]And now our air is coming from all of that. All of those areas are warm to hot. It's what we hope for achieved in the temperature department today.

[00:22:34]And then sometimes And then the sun has not quite hit the horizon.

[00:22:44]But it's still really warm and there are a lot of people really enjoying the beach here.

[00:22:54]The sun reflecting off the boats.

[00:22:56]It's nice at Fort Point.

[00:23:00]All right.

[00:23:02]What a wonderful Sunday.

[00:23:05]Not in a hurry.

[00:23:07]Mitt moved one muscle.

[00:23:09]Steve moved very little.

[00:23:13]And it's pretty nice back to work Monday. A little less warm, but on our Tuesdays are good if you can get them.

[00:23:24]We're going for the mid 90s. If we get to 90 in Boston today, but it's going to be warmer away from the ocean.

[00:23:34]On our Tuesday and Wednesday.

[00:23:37]A little smoke in the atmosphere.

[00:23:40]Very grateful for all we have, and thank you for watching.

[00:23:46]Talk to you tomorrow.