You might need to trade your winter parka for a raincoat later this week, as the weekend’s bitter cold is forecast to give way to warmer, but wet, weather in the days ahead.
According to forecasters with the National Weather Service, the frigid temps that settled over the region this last weekend should end after Monday, but the warming weather will bring rain and a slight chance for localized, snow-melt flooding.
“It could cause some localized poor drainage issues,” Bryce Williams, a NWS meteorologist said Sunday. “Fortunately we’ve lost a lot — at least outside of the higher elevations — we’ve lost a lot of the snow over the last week of warmer temperatures.”
Flooding will be most likely in areas that frequently experience standing water, Williams said, or where drainage is blocked by debris.
Temperatures on Monday are expected to climb just outside of freezing, Williams said, capping off around 33 degrees in the Boston area under sunny skies. The NWS does forecast a possible windchill as low as -2 degrees, however, and temperatures are expected to fall back below freezing overnight, to around 20 degrees.
Then there will be a “big change” in temperatures on Tuesday, according to the meteorologist.
“We’re looking at high temperatures jumping into the 50s,” he said. Wednesday should see similar highs, he said. Overnight lows should even stay above freezing, according to the weather service.
That warmer weather comes with a caveat, Williams said, and the weather service puts the chance of rain at “100%” overnight between Wednesday and Thursday.
“Warm temperatures are going to be leading up to a period of rain and stronger winds that we’re expecting late Wednesday and overnight into the early morning hours of Thursday,” Williams said.
The rain should “dry out” at some point on Thursday, Williams said, when the high temperature could climb toward 60 degrees.
Tuesday expected to be a “breezy day” according to Williams, with the wind gusting to 25 mph, and so is Wednesday. The “strongest winds” of the week are expected Wednesday night into Thursday morning, Williams said.
“We’re looking at wind gusts anywhere from 40 to 45 mph in the Boston area,” he said.
