Boston endures 9th wet weekend in a row as rain again soaks Northeast

Stop us if you have heard this before: it is raining a weekend in New England. Boston and Portland, Maine, have now had at least some rain on nine consecutive weekends. The next weekend can do it 10.

Boston – Outdoor weekend plans and spring have not turned hand in hand, which once again dodged rain drops in the middle of another starting storm.

A low pressure system is slowly turning over the Northwest Saturday, bringing rain that persists in northern New England until Saturday afternoon and night.

Flood watches remain in force for Vermont, New Hampshire and Southern Maine parts with additional 1-2 inches for Saturday night.

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In addition to spring gloom, winds can be mirror, gusting more than 20-30 mph in the afternoon.

If the forecast has a kind of family melody for the New Englanders, it is their repeated leg for several weekends in a row now. For Boston and Portland, Maine, the rain of Saturday morning marks the ninth consecutive weekend with at least one recorded rain.

It is a longer streak in Worcester, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut, who have now seen 11 weekly followed with at least some reported rains.

To compare, New England has even made a weekend Seattle, which has also reported in eight of its last nine weekends, but managed to spend the weekend from April 28 to 29 without rain.

Good news for the New Englanders to leave: the weather dries from west to this later on Saturday and the weather looks pleasant for Mother’s Day.

Boston’s streak could reach the two digits next weekend

Do not look now, but the forecast next weekend also has rain for New England.

Another fall in the Jet Stream will take place in the duration of the West next week. That system will move to the great lakes and any porridge to Canada.

But the cold front front will bring another round of rain northeast on Friday and times the next weekend. Early forecasts suggest that rain totals could reach an inch or more.