Hello 80 degrees, goodbye snow shovels
(Tom Herde for The Boston Globe)
The glorious 80-degree weather today drew bathers to Nantasket Beach.
By Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff
Forsythia bushes have bloomed, exploding in bursts of yellow. Green buds are wiggling out of the tips of long-dormant branches. And Commonwealth Avenue is awash in the creamy pink blossoms of magnolia trees.
Here is one more telltale sign of spring: The temperature surged into the 80s today in Boston for the first time since Oct. 22. While weather in New England can be famously fickle, it may finally be time to say goodbye to one loathsome winter chore.
"I’d say the odds are good you can put away the snow shovels,” said Alan Dunham, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton.
The temperature peaked at 82 degrees this afternoon in Boston and got as high as 85 degrees away from the coast. A sea breeze kept temperatures in the 60s and 70s on the South Coast, the south shore of Cape Cod, and Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, Dunham said.
A small cold front is expected to drag high temperatures into the 70s on Thursday, but it will still be sunny and spring-like.
