The WBZ Weather Team is highlighting Saturday as a NEXT Weather Alert Day.
In addition, the Storms Prediction Center has highlighted areas immediately northwest of Boston with a “marginal” risk of severe weather and areas northwest of Worcester with a “slight” (level 2) risk.
The SPC also has outlined that same area with an elevated risk of wind damage and a low risk of a tornado.
The feel of summer will be in the air on Saturday with high temperatures surging well into the 80s along with a very humid airmass.
The day will start off sunny and warm but, by the afternoon, we will see rapidly building clouds to the west along an approaching cold front.
Storms will fire across western MA between 12-2pm on Saturday…
Areas north and west of Boston, including Worcester county and Middlesex county could see storms any time between 3-8pm.
The cold front will lose its punch around sunset, and we do not expect the storms to make the trip into eastern or southeastern MA.
Any storms that do form on Saturday may contain very heavy downpours, frequent lightning, damaging-straight-line winds and small hail.
While the tornado risk is low, it is not zero. This is an isolated threat and more likely during the max heating of the day, in the afternoon hours, in western and central MA.
Unfortunately, the cold front is going to stall out over southern New England on Sunday. This will lead to a rather cloudy, dreary day with some scattered rain showers.
We do expect the clouds and rain threat to exit the region late in the day, ushering in a lovely start and fall-feel to next week.
