This week will feature weather you’d expect to kick off July in New England. Persistent warmth, varying humidity and rounds of thunderstorms will be moving through the region this week. High pressure will dominate the region today. This high pressure system will move south and east of New England today, allowing for a southwest flow […]

My name is Timothy Dennis. I’m a weather enthusiast who was born and raised here in New England. All my life I have been fascinated by the weather. Here I write about New England’s current weather while documenting past weather events.  © 2035 by Going Places. Powered and secured by Wix

A large-scale upper level low pressure system continues to cycle through the Great Lakes today. This has spawned a surface low well to the south of New England this morning. This surface low will drive New England’s rainfall over the next few days. The system will remain to the south of New England for most […]

It’ll be a generally active week with troughing dominating. Frontal systems will cross the region today and Wednesday, making those days the wettest ones. Troughing will help keep things cooler later in the week as well. A strong frontal system will cross New England through the day today. The center of this system will remain […]

It’s going to be a generally quiet week, with a couple bumps along the road. Here’s a breakdown of the week ahead, including an early look at Memorial Weekend. High pressure builds into New England, leading to mostly sunny skies across the region. A cold front that moved through New England overnight has knocked the […]

My name is Timothy Dennis. I’m a weather enthusiast who was born and raised here in New England. All my life I have been fascinated by the weather. Here I write about New England’s current weather while documenting past weather events.  © 2035 by Going Places. Powered and secured by Wix

Polar Vortex, much like bombogenesis, has gotten a reputation of being a social media buzzword despite having an origin long before social media. After gaining popularity over the last decade to describe bouts of extreme cold, the term has often been misused. In its simplest form, the polar vortex is a broad area of low […]

All week long, it was looking like the strip of heaviest snowfall would land in southern Vermont, heading in a northeast direction through the White Mountains of New Hampshire and finally continuing through central Maine. Yesterday afternoon, the storm’s track began to trend southward, which, in turn, began pulling the strip of heavier snow southward […]

My name is Timothy Dennis. I’m a weather enthusiast who was born and raised here in New England. All my life I have been fascinated by the weather. Here I write about New England’s current weather while documenting past weather events.  © 2035 by Going Places. Powered and secured by Wix

My name is Timothy Dennis. I’m a weather enthusiast who was born and raised here in New England. All my life I have been fascinated by the weather. Here I write about New England’s current weather while documenting past weather events.  © 2035 by Going Places. Powered and secured by Wix

A frontal system back over the Great Lakes will continue to lift northeast, eventually moving to the north of New England. Precipitation ahead of this system’s fronts will continue to push through the region during the morning hours. By the afternoon, precipitation will become much more spotty in nature across New England. Eastern Maine will […]

After our powerful nor’easter, New England has enjoyed, for the most part, quiet and seasonable weather. This week will begin in the same way, with mostly sunny skies and slightly above average temperatures. Once we get to Thursday, things start to change as a pattern flip occurs. Once this happens, New England will likely see […]

To get a watch (severe thunderstorm watch, winter storm watch, flood watch, etc.), there has to be at least a 50% chance that the weather will meet warning criteria, usually within 1-3 days. The watch is upgraded to a warning when the chances of meeting the criteria reach 80%, usually within 1 day or less. […]

Coming into Sunday, the potential for a significant severe weather event was on the table for New England. The region was put into a rather rare (for New England) “enhanced” risk for severe weather. This is level 3 of 5 on the severe storm outlook put out by the Storm Prediction Center. On top of […]