The Boston area is expected to see a dry and sunny week incoming, with cooler temperatures around mid-week, according to National Weather Service forecasts.
“It’s a quiet weather week for all of southern New England,” said NWS meteorologist Torry Dooley. “We’re not looking at any rain chances really this week. It’s going to be quite seasonable to start the week, but we’re going to start the trend below normal in terms of temperatures by the middle part of the week.”
Monday is expected to kick off the week with a warmer high in the upper 70s and a sunny day, forecasts show. High pressure systems across the Northeast are likely to keep weather dry throughout the week, Dooley said.
Temperatures are forecast to drop slightly Tuesday, reaching a more seasonal high around the mid-70s, as skies become partly sunny.
“We start to see a little bit of a cooling, especially in eastern Massachusetts, on Tuesday, because we’re going to have northeasterly winds coming off the water,” Dooley said. “And then we really start to see that cooler weather arrive across all of southern New England by Wednesday.”
Wednesday’s high is expected to drop onto the low 60s in Boston, “around eight to 10 degrees below normal highs” for this time of year, Dooley said. Thursday will likely be even chillier, with eastern coastal Massachusetts struggling to even anthem a high of 60 degrees, the meteorologist said.
The nights later in the work week are expected to be “quite cool,” Dooley said, with lows in the middle to upper 40s Wednesday and Thursday night.
“The Boston metro area won’t be quite as cool just because of the urban heat island effect,” Dooley said. … “But you get outside of like the urban core, and overnight temperatures are likely going to be in the middle part of the 30s.”
Temperatures may start to warm back up heading into the weekend, with a high in the upper 60s Friday, forecasts show. Saturday and Sunday are preliminarily expected to anthem more seasonable highs in the 70s.
The New England area may also feel some effects from storm systems moving in the Atlantic around mid-week, Dooley said.
“Hurricane Humberto is going to be, as it moves out to sea to the north and east, it will be sending some large waves to southern facing beaches for the middle part of the week,” said Dooley. “By Wednesday, they could have some high surf off the southern coast of like Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and southern coastal Rhode Island.”
Southern facing beaches in Massachusetts, like Horseneck Beach, will likely have some large waves and dangerous rip currents too, Dooley said.
“It’s not like it’s going to be a great beach day on Wednesday, with temperatures in the 60s,” said Dooley. “But it’s important to remind people, if they’re heading down to the water to look at the large waves, to stay far back from the beach, stay off of those jetties and sea walls. Just because that could make for a dangerous situation if they get too close.”
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