Today's Cape Cod Forecast

Wednesday and Thursday

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Wednesday: Lots of sunshine expected from start to finish. With lighter winds and plenty of strong March sunshine, it will feel quite nice. After a frosty early morning, temperatures should recover to the lower 50s as an average temperature around the Cape - perhaps a few notches higher up toward interior parts of Falmouth and Sandwich and a few ticks cooler across parts of the Outer Cape. West winds of 10 to 15 mph.

Wednesday Night: Clear to partly cloudy and again a bit on the cool side. After a very nice, pleasant evening, temperatures will fall back through the 40s and down into the 30s.

Thursday: This is why we like spring! We will see mostly sunny skies with just some passing high clouds during the afternoon. It will be a mild day with temperatures climbing to the middle 50s for afternoon highs across the Cape as an average - call it 53F on the Outer Cape to 58F on the Upper Cape. A great mid March day. West winds.

Outlook for Thursday Night: A bit more cloudiness around. Not as cool. Temperatures in the upper 30s to lower 40s.

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Comments

+1 # Steve 2009-12-30 17:24

Looks like a miss according to 18 GFS, but off on snow for a few days , theres always next weeks storm.

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+1 # CCW - Phil 2009-12-30 22:05

Yeah the GFS has not been too keen on a big one. However, it's tough to go against a combo of the GGEM/UKMET/ECMWF.

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0 # Steve 2010-01-01 06:25

I dont think I have ever seen a coastal storm get pushed south necause of blocking, ive seen them stall but never pushed south.

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0 # CCW - Phil 2010-01-01 08:11

Hi Steve, We do occasionally see loops with coastal storms but yes it is a rather unusual set-up with such massive high latitude blocking. The Arctic Oscillation has pretty much bottomed out to near historic lows. The AO/NAO combo will do it's dirty work with this system. Should be a fun weekend of storm tracking. I'm expecting some big variability in conditions.

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0 # CCW - Brian 2010-01-02 22:35

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0 # tim 2010-01-31 09:14

I've heard various reports for February in the long-term, some say cold an snowy other say above average warm. Do you guys have any ideas about the month?

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0 # CCW - Phil 2010-02-02 07:30

Quoting tim:

I've heard various reports for February in the long-term, some say cold an snowy other say above average warm. Do you guys have any ideas about the month?

Hi Tim,
I think at least the first two weeks - if not the first three weeks - will be colder than normal. As for snow chances, an active El Nino induced Sub-tropical jet stream always needs to be watched, but so far over the last several weeks, storms have been steered out to sea south of us.

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0 # steve campbell 2010-02-25 22:25

Sorry to toot my own horn, but last weeks snow/rain event was due to a miss-match of jet streams.
This storm, however, has all the right ingredients: northerly sub tropical jet stream above a southerly oriented polar jet stream and a good well developed upper air trough. It also has good low level moisture source. Most computer models have this event almost Fujiwara the Northeast.

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