Temperatures will soar to near 50 today through Friday with Saturday looking at mid 50s. This could threaten records on Saturday. I'll get Saturday's record high posted this afternoon. Rain will spread over the region on Thursday night and last into Saturday. Flooding concerns are minimal except for maybe some poor drainage flooding. Total rainfall through the period of 2 inches is possible.

Climate temperatures:

Keene ended the heat streak at 20 days after our first below normal high since the 9th was recorded on the 29th. No other below norm highs have been recorded since then, and a new streak is up and running at 5 days. This will likely continue for the next 5 days at least.

.CLIMATOLOGY...
SINCE DEC 9 2006 THRU JAN 2 2007...BDL/ORH/PVD HAVE HAD 24
CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS WHICH THREATENS TO EXTEND TO
ABOUT 31 CONSECUTIVE DAYS /THRU NEXT TUE/.  BOSTON HAD 1 DAY BELOW
NORMAL ON DEC 29 OTRW 23 OF THE PAST 24 WERE ABV NORMAL. WE ARE
CURRENTLY CHECKING WITH THE NERCC ON THIS TYPE OF RECORD.

ORH'S CURRENT PERIOD OF 704 CONSEC DAYS ABOVE ZERO IS THE 4TH LONGEST
PERIOD OF ABOVE ZERO TEMPS. THE LAST TIME ORH WAS ZERO WAS 1/28/05.
THE RECORD FOR CONSECUTIVE DAYS GREATER THAN 0F AT ORH IS 1085 DAYS
ENDING JAN 17 2003. ITS OF INTEREST TO NOTE THAT IN JAN 05... THERE
WERE 6 OF 7 DAYS IN THE PERIOD 1/18-1/24/2005 THAT RECORDED SUBZERO
AT ORH.  BRIEFLY CK'D BOS/PVD/BDL ON ABV ZERO AND NOTHING OF GREAT
INTEREST THERE AT THIS TIME.

RECORDS FOR SATURDAY JANUARY 6 COULD /20 PCT/ BE APPROACHED /WITHIN
2F/

BOS 62 1913
PVD 61 1913
BDL 58 1929
ORH 57 1929

SNOW CLIMO IN THE USA...DESPITE THE NMEX-E COLORADO/NEB/DAKOTAS
POSITIVE ANOMALY AS WELL VCNTY SLC...THE REST OF THE COUNTRY IS WAY
BLOW NORMAL AS SEEN THRU THE HTTP://WWW.NOHRSC.NWS.GOV/ ON
SNOWDEPTH NORMAL OR HEMISPHERICALLY THROUGH
HTTP://MOE.MET.FSU.EDU/SNOW/

I will post details on the forecast for the next week plus information on a potential pattern change in late January, later tonight.