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Currently in Boston — October 23, 2023: Cool to start, warm to finish
Plus, details on two hurricane landfalls over the weekend.
Dave Epstein & Eric Holthaus
October 22, 2023
The weather, currently.
Cool to start, warm to finish
Cool weather will start the work week but there will be a mix of clouds and sunshine to go along with it. Temperatures on Monday will reach the upper 50s after starting in the lower 40s. Monday night is one of the coolest nights so far although I don't expect much in the way of frost. Some areas will get into the 30s.
Tuesday readings will reach near 60° with plenty of sunshine. Then it is a warming trend for the rest of the week with 70s likely starting either Wednesday or Thursday and continuing into Saturday. There may be an 80° high temperature for some towns Friday or Saturday. Cooler weather arrives next week.
What you need to know, currently.
Over the weekend two hurricanes make landfall — one in the Pacific, and one in the Atlantic.
Hurricane Tammy has been a rare late-October hurricane-strength storm in the tropical Atlantic, and meandered its way parallel to the Eastern Caribbean chain of islands before making landfall in Barbuda on Sunday. The storm caused intense flash flooding in Guadeloupe as well. Forecasts show that Tammy will continue meandering northwestward this week, but it’s still too early to say whether it will pose a threat to Bermuda or the US mainland.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Norma lashed the southern tip of Baja California before making a second landfall on the Mexico mainland over the weekend. It’s the fifth tropical cyclone to make landfall on Mexico’s Pacific Coast this year.
#Topolobampo Fuertes vientos e intensa lluvia se registra en el puerto de Topolobampo ante la presencia de #Norma. Extremar precauciones.
— Alfredo Padilla MX (@Alfredopadiilla)
9:50 PM • Oct 22, 2023
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