Chilly end to week; tracking weekend rain

AND A GOOD FRIDAY TO YOU. IT’S A CHILLY END TO WHAT HAS BEEN A CHILLY WEEK AROUND HERE. TEMPERATURES HAVE MOSTLY BEEN IN THE 40S THIS MONTH AS A WHOLE, RUNNING JUST A LITTLE BIT BELOW AVERAGE IN BOSTON. AND, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE COUNTRY, A LOT OF THE EASTERN HALF OF THE COUNTRY WAS REALLY COLD EARLIER THIS WEEK, BUT THEY’VE WARMED UP. WE HAVE NOT NOTICE OUR HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY, ONLY GOING INTO THE MID 40S. IT’S THE JET STREAM WITH THIS LITTLE DIP HERE LINGERING OVER THE NORTHEAST, NOT JUST THROUGH THE WEEKEND, EVEN INTO NEXT WEEK. WE’RE TALKING ABOUT COLDER THAN AVERAGE TEMPERATURES CONTINUING, AND THAT MEANS HIGHS FOR US IN THE 40S INSTEAD OF THE LOW 50S. WHAT IS AVERAGE FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR? GOING ONLY TO ABOUT 43 THIS AFTERNOON OUT IN WORCESTER, 46 BOSTON, MID 40S ON THE CAPE. WE WILL THOUGH HAVE AT LEAST A LOT OF SUNSHINE, ESPECIALLY THE FIRST HALF OF THE DAY. AND THEN NOTICE HOW THE CLOUDS THOSE ARE BUILDING BY ABOUT 3:00 IN THE AFTERNOON. AND WE’LL HAVE SOME CLOUD COVER AROUND THIS EVENING. FORTUNATELY, NOT A TON OF WIND TODAY, BUT ENOUGH WIND OUT OF THE NORTHWEST 5 TO 15MPH THAT IT WILL FEEL A LITTLE COLDER THAN THE THERMOMETER READS. BUT HEY, THE SUNSHINE WILL BE NICE AT LEAST THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON, AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THOSE CLOUDS ARE BUILDING FILLING IN HERE LATE IN THE AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. EARLY THIS EVENING, THERE IS THE RISK THAT WE AT LEAST GET A COUPLE OF SNOW SHOWERS OR FLURRIES THROUGH THE WORCESTER HILLS, PASSING ON THROUGH WITH LITTLE CONSEQUENCE. AND THEN OVERNIGHT THE SKIES WILL CLEAR. IT’S GOING TO BE A COLD NIGHT. NOTICE MOST OF THE SUBURBS ARE DOWN IN THE 20S. TONIGHT SHOULD HOLD CLOSER TO THE FREEZING MARK IN BOSTON, SO A COLD START ON SATURDAY. IT’S ANOTHER CHILLY DAY, BUT A GOOD AMOUNT OF SUNSHINE. JUST SOME LATE DAY CLOUDS ONCE AGAIN. MID 40S IS THE BEST WE’RE DOING TEMPERATURE WISE. WE’VE GOT A FRONT THAT’S GOING TO BE RACING THROUGH ON SATURDAY NIGHT, AND IT’S BIAS ON SUNDAY. COLDER AIR, THOUGH, WAITS TO MOVE IN UNTIL SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY, SO WE’RE ACTUALLY GOING TO GET A LITTLE BUMP UP IN TEMPERATURES AS WE GET INTO SUNDAY. today IN TERMS OF RAINFALL, THIS SYSTEM IS SO PROGRESSIVE, MOVING THROUGH SO QUICKLY. IT DOESN’T HAVE A LOT OF TIME TO DUMP MUCH RAIN. SO GENERALLY UNDER A HALF AN INCH, QUARTER TO UNDER A HALF AN INCH OF RAINFALL EXPECTED. AND YOU CAN SEE HOW IT COMES IN RIGHT AROUND 9:00 ON SATURDAY EVENING AND BETWEEN 9 AND 11:00, IT MAY BE JUST COLD ENOUGH NEAR AND NORTH OF ROUTE TWO, PARTICULARLY WITH ELEVATION, THAT THERE MAY BE JUST SOME POCKETS OF FREEZING RAIN MIXED ON IN, AND THEN THE TEMPERATURES ARE GOING TO RISE IN THE OVERNIGHT HOURS, IN FACT, THROUGH THE 40S. BY SUNDAY MORNING, THE RAIN IS GONE. THIS IS 8 A.M. AND IT’S NEAR 50 DEGREES. THOSE CLOUDS WILL THEN BREAK FOR A LITTLE SUN IN THE AFTERNOON. SO OUR SPRINGBOARD IS HIGH. WE’RE GOING TO SEE THOSE TEMPERATURES GO FROM NEAR 50 INTO THE LOW TO MID 50S ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON HERE IN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND, A LITTLE COOLER TO THE NORTH. BUT IT’S OUR ONE MILD DAY BECAUSE THE COLD AIR COMES RUSHING BACK HERE AS WE GET INTO MONDAY WITH A GUSTY WIND. WE ARE STUCK IN THE LOW TO MID 40S RIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY OF NEXT WEE