Weather update

From our metro desk colleague Andrew Ryan:

The gusty thunderstorms that rumbled across Massachusetts today downed tree limbs from Franklin to Plymouth. But much of the rain should be swept out to sea by early evening, leaving cloudy by dry skies for the first pitch of the Red Sox first-place showdown with the Tampa Bay Rays.

"The show should go on," said Bill Simpson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton.

There does, however, remain a possibility for one heavy shower some time between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. The full forecast calls for tonight's game at Fenway Park calls for cloudy skies that should gradually clear, with low temperatures near 58 degrees. An 11- to 15-mile per hour wind is expected from the west, blowing in from right field.