Weather for New England and the Northeast

We had a thunderstorm pass through Peterborough, NH last night at about 11:30 PM that dropped torrential rain for a bit. There have been some light showers early this morning and areas of dense fog, but the overcast skies should turn sunny today.
We have a swirling low pressure area over the Great Lakes that will slowly track through Quebec the next couple of days. That will leave the atmosphere unstable with a chance of a pop up passing shower both Monday and Tuesday. The best chance is from central NH north into Maine.
In 1992 Hurricane Andrew came ashore as a category 5 hurricane in south Florida. See the History Panel.

A cold front moves through today, bringing a chance of thunderstorms, especially across northern areas, followed by gradually drier weather and returning sunshine. Tuesday stays seasonable, with another stretch of comfortable weather expected Wednesday and early Thursday. Rain chances increase Thursday into Friday as a more humid air mass moves back into the region. Early indications suggest Friday could bring the most widespread rain, with some potential for locally heavy downpours.

"Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
You may not be familiar with this quote, which turns 129 years old today, but for a good 80 years or so, it was everywhere. And just about everyone who said it attributed it to the wrong person.
Now, if there’s any late 19th-century humorous quote wrongly attributed to an American, the American it is wrongly attributed to will probably be Mark Twain, as is the case with this one. That’s because Mr. Twain was considered the great wit of his day, and his sayings had a way of traveling farther and faster than anyone else's. If it was clever, the feeling seems to have been that it must have been Twain who said it.
Except, in this case, it wasn't. The line first showed up in print on this day in 1897, in an unsigned editorial in the Hartford Courant, and the man behind it was almost certainly Charles Dudley Warner, who was the paper's editor, a fine essayist in his own right and, as it happens, Twain's next-door neighbor and co-author.
But even more interesting, to my mind, at least, than the authorship of this once-ubiquitous line, is what its popularity tells us about how our relationship with weather has (and hasn't) changed over the last century-and-a-quarter. Because in 1897, the joke landed for a simple reason: weather was something that happened to you. You could complain, you could speculate, you could look at the sky and guess - and that was about it.
Fast-forward to today, when most of us carry pocket supercomputers with incredible apps that can tell us when the rain will start and when the storm is coming. Just a couple of generations later, our grasp of the weather would seem like magic to Dudley, or Twain, for that matter.
Yet our basic habit remains intact. Weather is still the universal icebreaker and default conversational topic. Charles Dudley Warner might be amazed that we can track a storm cell halfway across the globe, but he would certainly recognize the sight of us standing on the porch, looking up at the rain clouds - and complaining about them anyway.

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