With the wet towns and city this afternoon. Shiri soaking from auburn and westward up 190 to gardner. Shades in yellows and orange he can extending to rindge New Hampshire as well. That is the heaviest rain. Lightening up as you go eastward. The whole system will weaken toward bedford and boston, but it is on track to reach you folks around the 7 00 hour this morning. Around 7 in the boston area and continues to weaken as we go deep neither morning hours. By noontime, most of the showers will fade off the map. And then during the afternoon. Partial clearing. Highs inland in the upper 70s. Middle 70s at the coast and the cape. Julie grauert is back with an accident update and a little good news on the road. Julie yes improvement at the accidents right now, shiri. 24 northbound near route 23 in brockton and things starting to open up. Overall drive time not too problematic. Shift north, average speeds on the expressway 38 Miles Per Hour, but that will be slowing down the closer we get to
Gene power couple strengthening ties in another city. The new waterfront property they are reportedly buying. Gene good morning, everybody, it is august 2nd, thank you for being with us, im gene elizabeth im Elizabeth Hopkins in for sara underwood. Shiri spear is todays storm with todays showers. Gene hes right shiri lighter rain and worcester getting heavier rain, auburn, sudbury, clinton, shirley, leominster and extending into southwestern New Hampshire making way to mildford and lightens up as you patchy, lighter, almost drizzle out there, just north of the city, also as you head westward on the pike you will encounter the showers, but look at how it encloses on boston area. I say steadiest through 9 00 this morning and then it lightens up by latemorning, so here you have it, afternoon bringing clearing skies. Thats check on forecast for now. Lets get you over to Julie Grauert. She has the latest information on new accident. Julie accident on route 3 northbound, near route 139 in st
Mike 19th gold medal. Emily hes not human. Hes a fish. Mike we could use those temperatures. Trying to segue. Look at concord, New Hampshire, 54 degrees. These temperatures have really dropped off. Beautiful night last night with a cool temperature, the humidity was manageable and it is august and you know that wont last long. The humidity will be coming back to the forecast. Checking out the sli widening out the view, theres not much going on. Way down to the carolinas you have to find some rain or headway out to south dakota. Its out there. Eventually that will be moving into our forecast but will take a while to get here and why i say nothing really until wednesday. Heres the way the map looks heading through the day today. Fair weather clouds billowing up. One or two people got sprinkles yesterday but dont think well have that this afternoon. Im looking for a sea breeze that will hold the temperatures a few hours or so. Its at the airport and once downtown the temperatures will be
Weakening as they continue to track east. So as i mentioned, by lunchtime today, 20 chance of rain. By this afternoon we start the dry out and the sunshine is returning. We warm things up throughout the week. More on your forecast coming up. Sarah all right. Time now for fast track traffic. Kris anderson back with us. Kris good morning, everyone. If youre head out now, great time. No traffic concerns to tell you about. Live look at the expressway. Things rolling a take a look at the maps. Lots of green, which is what we like to see north of the city. As you get closer to boston, some of the yellow and some of the red here is because of Construction Projects that are going on. They should be clearing up now at any time. Somebody into boston from the split to the tunnel, its only about 11 minutes, 3, 24, 95 connecting with 128, all looking good. Same thing on the mass pike as you head in from framingham all the way into boston, other than a little slowdown as you get closer to the city b
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