What a beautiful morning. It’s warm and the sunshine is abundant. Over the next week to 10 days I think it will be important to take advantage of the morning as the chance for rain will increase in the afternoon.

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Happy Father’s Day! Our weather today will be going downhill, but in a slow, not dramatic fashion. A frontal system is going to pass through the area late today and with it comes the chance for showers. Dry conditions overall will continue through the morning with the chance of showers increasing after 4 PM. It’s going to be a warm day and even with fading sunshine.

More rain is on the way. There are flood watches up from Virginia to Maine this morning for all the heavy rain on the way. Areas in green along the east on the map below have the potential for flooding of some sort. I am expecting a general 1 to 2 inch rainstorm beginning later this afternoon and continuing overnight. When you combine this additional rainfall with the heavy rain from Friday we start to run the risk of more urban and street flooding. Also, rivers and streams are running rather high so there can be some flooding of the smaller rivers and streams.

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Torrential rain will continue for several hours overnight. This has prompted flood warnings to be issued for nearly the entire southern New England area. These warnings are mostly for small stream and not big river flooding. Please be sure to check your sump pumps and if you are prone to flooding you may want to elevate any important material off the basement floor. This is going to be a system that causes urban flooding problems more than anything else. At times the rain will come down at impressive rates and make travel difficult. I'll be updating the weekend forecast during the weekend on Twitter at @growingwisdom Please follow me there. Feel free to comment or ask questions too.

Don’t cancel the weekend plans. That is my advice for the upcoming weekend. We do have rain on the way, but most of the weekend is going to be dry and rain free. Let’s get right to the overview and then I will give you the specifics and try to break down both days as best as possible.

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Yesterday’s severe weather that occurred over northern and western New England is not history. Marine air just around ground level helped to knock the stuffing out of the storms as they moved to the coast. This not only preventing any big storms, it basically caused the storms to fall apart in their entirety before reaching the coast. Often I would personally be upset we missed the rain, but it’s not going to matter. Let me explain.

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After a warm and muggy night a pair of very hot days is on the way. Today, temperatures are going to approach record levels. The record for the next three days is 96F and even in Boston we will come close. I don't think we will exceed the record, but a high temperature of 95F is definitely in the cards. Air quality isn't so good today and an alert for high levels of ground ozone (a pollutant) is up for the areas in grey.
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For those of you who hate the heat, Monday will be cooler with highs back near 80F. It’s been a cool spring for the most part and a 4 day heat wave is going to be a shock to the system. I am not a fan of the heat and humidity. I know some of you look forward to the 90 degree stuff, but for me I just keep looking to when it will end.

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Knowing we have 3 to 4 days of heat on the way, you can’t imagine how exciting it is to a gardener to hear the sound of rain at 5AM. Bleary eyed I ran to my computer to check the radar hoping the extent of the showers was large and that the rain wouldn't end quickly. Much to my delight my garden got over a quarter inch of rain this morning and more showers are likely later today and this evening.

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You’ve been hearing about the weekend weather for the past few days and by now I am sure you know it won’t be perfect. Cool and wet is the theme for this year’s Memorial Day weekend although it’s not a 3 day washout by any measure. It is rather muggy and warm this morning, colder air will filter into the region during the day. This is going to set up a very chilly pair of days this weekend. Today will end up being the wettest of the next three days with some heavy downpours, especially over southeastern Massachusetts.

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