Bostonians brace for a week of shifting skies and a teaser of spring warmth. The National Weather Service predicts a steady clime from today's cloudy chill, hovering near 37 degrees, to a more comfortable high of 56 by Saturday. Cloud cover persists, but the bluster of an ocean storm off the Atlantic will spare the city any significant snowfall, leaving just a few flurries to grace southeast Massachusetts.
The remnants of the weekend's tempest that lashed Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island won’t bring more than a few scattered snow showers here, as NBC Boston reported. With negligible accumulation expected, temperature highs will gradually ascend by week's end, favoring brighter skies away from the coastline where the sun's resolve will be firmer and more defined.
Midweek, residents can expect a reprieve as "we'll shake the clouds and snow threat Wednesday," the Boston forecast reads, with the barometer nudging toward the 40-degree mark, signaling the start of a warming trend. This gentle rise in mercury will culminate in a balmy peak come the weekend, inviting a swift southwest wind ahead of another incoming weather system.
Despite Southern California grappling with a sizeable storm system, Boston will encounter only a "feeble band of showers" by the weekend, as the tempest loses its vigor en route eastward, according to National Weather Service data, and in that anticipatory march, mild air will lay the path through, thrusting temperatures well into the 50s, ushering a taste of early spring to the city's residents.
Changes loom beyond the weekend warmth, however. As Sunday yields to Monday, forecasters are eyeing a gradual return to cooler temperatures with rain chances increasing early next week, precision on its form—rain or snow—remains in the hands of evolving conditions, leaving Boston to watch, wait and wonder what the skies will write next.
