Significant Weather Weekly Outlook
Severe weather on any broad scale appears unlikely this week for southern New England, although cannot be too sure yet for the coming weekend.
A pool of anomalously cold air aloft will likely induce some scattered showers this afternoon, especially across central/western MA, northwest RI, and CT. One or two heavier showers or even an isolated thunderstorms could produce small hail (pea size), but it’s looking less likely now given cooler low-level temperatures combined with the coldest air aloft retreating offshore by late afternoon. Any shower activity should diminish quickly by sunset due to the loss of daytime heating.
One of a series of troughs moving south about a broad upper-level low pressure area that has persisted over the Canadian Maritimes will likely instigate an ocean storm off the mid-Atlantic coast by late this workweek. There seems to be increasing model consensus that this storm will track well offshore of southern New England and have little or no impact on our area.
Significantly warmer air should move into southern New England mid to late week in response to a building upper-level ridge.
A cold front and a possible low pressure area may trigger showers for next weekend, but there remains much uncertainty in the details at this time.
Next Message
Unless a risk for severe weather should arise, the next message will probably be the significant weather weekly outlook for the following week to be issued Monday June 8.
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Message issued June 1, 2026 by:
Bob Thompson
Retired National Weather Service Meteorologist
Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center Board member
