Peak fall foliage is found all around southern New England for this weekend. Our weather cooperates for some great leaf-peeping opportunities.
New England foliage forecast
Weekend weather
Highs today reach the upper 50s, with developing clouds and a spot sprinkle or shower. Northern New England could see some small and soft hailstones, called “graupel,” with some heavier showers.
Most of the northeast remains dry, even with an upper level low spinning to our north. Tonight, the showers dissipate and the clouds disperse with lows again the 40s to 30s.
This weekend stays mainly sunny, dry and highs cool to the mid and low 50s.
Halloween nor’easter in Massachusetts?
Our dry weather remains for Monday but all eyes then go to the possible coastal storm midweek next week.
The track and timing is still TBD, but we will see rain and wind over a couple days. Tuesday night, Wednesday into Thursday we have the most rain and wind.
The track of the storm could go farther inland, then out to the east by Friday morning, which means Halloween would be drying off. Another possibility is that the storm meanders around the Gulf of Maine then out to the east. That situation would stall the storm and give us rain for trick-or-treating.
Over the next few days, we will see the forecast tighten up and can provide more detail.
Tracking Tropical Storm Melissa
Our rain chance for next week is not associated with Melissa. This storm becomes a powerful hurricane as it sits over the Caribbean south of Jamaica all weekend.
The storm doesn’t move away until midweek next week, but a cold front and the upper level jet stream will likely scoop it out to sea and away from the U.S. coastline.
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