From Heat to Storms

Summer session was on full blast the day before today as numerous towns and cities easily achieved their hottest day of the year so far Although the official reading At Logan Airport fell just shy of for Boston plenty of parts of the city away from the waters edge hit it and preponderance towns and cities just off the coast achieved low to mid s for highs A summer scorcher for sure At present we re off to a warm and humid start with temps near A meager early morning storms run through northern Mass and southern NH before we turn our attention to additional afternoon storms Highs peak in the modern day in the low to mid s by noon inland s coast then they start sliding back into the s to low s by late afternoon Storms that fire this afternoon will be capable of localized downpours and damaging wind gusts The highest menace for the severe weather and street flooding downpours favors north of the Pike and west of I- While rainfall totals will vary from this map below it does show how highly variable the numbers will be and overall highlights the highest jeopardy areas for downpours being in central and western Mass north of the Pike and interior NH Saturday is not a washout from start to finish but we ll deal with scattered showers and storms Sunday is better with less humidity