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December 28, 2007

Scooting ahead to weather forecasts for New Year's

Journal photo / Frieda Squires
Eliza Trevor, 9, of Providence, and her brother, Jack, 12, took advantage of relatively-mild weather to learn how to ride their new Razor scooters in the parking lot behind Brown Stadium on Elmgrove Avenue this afternoon.

Fast-forwarding to New Year's Eve this Monday, the forecast is for a 30 percent chance of snow with a low of 28 degrees that night.

For those planning to take a "polar bear" plunge from a Rhode Island beach on New Year's Day, Tuesday's forecast holds a 40 percent chance of snow and a daytime high of 43 degrees.

Tonight and tomorrow, it's rain and rain, the National Weather Service forecast says.

The weather service report includes a hazardous weather outlook on its Web site for tonight and days leading up to New Year's. Some "brief urban or poor drainage flooding" could happen in places with clogged storm drains, the outlook says.

On Sunday night and into Monday morning, "winter weather hazards are likely" around southern New England in the form of snow accumulating or a mix of freezing and "frozen elements." The chance of "significant snowfall" Sunday night and Monday is currently 30 to 40 percent, the weather service says, with potential for six inches of snow or more.

Oh, and those water temps? Well, it's about 42 degrees off Newport today, and a tad cooler farther north and a touch warmer along the southern coast. If it stays that way, it'll be just about as cold in the water as out.

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 7:13 PM | Permalink

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