The Boston region will begin the work week under a wind advisory that could cause scattered power outages and bring down some tree limbs, according to forecasters with the National Weather Service.
The wind advisory goes into effect as of 8 a.m. Monday and is currently scheduled to last until the early morning hours of Tuesday.
Wind gusts are expected to top 50 mph with sustained northwest winds blowing at 15 to 25 mph, and will impact “portions of eastern, northeastern, and southeastern Massachusetts and northern and southern Rhode Island,” according to the advisory.
“Tomorrow will be quite gusty. We’re looking at pretty widespread 45 mph gusts across almost all of southern New England, including Boston,” Kyle Pederson, an NWS meteorologist said Sunday. “Maybe some 55 mph gusts up in the Berkshires and north of Worcester in higher terrain areas.”
According to the wind advisory, “gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.”
Monday will otherwise be cloudy but dry, though Pederson said it could turn sunny by the afternoon, with a high in the low-40s.
The wind should slow overnight into Tuesday, according to the weather service, when the temperature is expected to around freezing. Even after the wind advisory ends, Pederson said, it’s still expected to be breezy through much of the following day.
“Nothing too bad: 20 to 30 mph gusts,” he predicted.
The sun will be out on Tuesday, according to Pederson, and the current forecast calls for highs in the lower 50s in and around Boston and just-above-freezing temperatures overnight.
The days get warmer as the week carries on, and the wind should die down almost entirely by Wednesday, when forecasters predict it could reach the mid-50s under mostly sunny skies. Overnight lows could hover closer to 40 degrees.
Thursday could be an essentially perfect spring day, with sunny skies, a calm breeze, and temperatures north of 60 degrees, according to the weather service. Thursday night lows are expected to be in the mid-40s.
There is a chance of rain Friday, Pederson said, starting very early in the morning and carrying through the day, with the greatest chance for rain coming overnight. There is currently a 30% chance of precipitation forecast through both Saturday and Sunday, though the meteorologist stressed that could change. High temperatures for all three days could hover in the mid-50s, with overnight lows above freezing.
The spell of warm days midweek may be music to your ears, but it’s not what the 300 maple syrup producers working in the Bay State’s $15 million sap industry want to see.
According to information provided by Severance Maple Products in Northfield, which hosted Gov. Maura Healey and representatives of the Massachusetts Maple Producers Association earlier this month to kick off the sugaring season, the ideal conditions for getting sap out of trees are “day time temperatures in the mid 40 degrees and the night temperatures in the lower 20 degrees.”
