Mostly cloudy skies stick around until morning, with sunshine returning tomorrow afternoon.
A severe thunderstorm rolled through the Springfield-Holyoke area earlier this evening, but the threat of thunderstorms will be dying down as we head into the overnight hours. These storms were very slow-moving, so areas of flooding is possible on some roadways if you are heading out this evening.
Otherwise, mostly cloudy skies will remain with us heading into Thursday morning. However gray of a start it is tomorrow, it's not going to last long. Tonight's system pushes off to the east and an area of high pressure moves in behind it...changing western Massachusetts over to mostly sunny skies by the afternoon. High temperatures will be on the warm side, but not too bad, reaching the mid-80s.
Friday goes in reverse...clouds will increase throughout the afternoon ahead of another round of rain Friday night into Saturday morning. While we start off the weekend dodging scattered thunderstorms, we finish out on a pleasant note with partly cloudy skies for Sunday. A pleasant cool down comes to western Massachusetts early next week...high temperatures will only be in the upper-70s under partly cloudy skies.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, a stray shower, muggy, low 64.
Thursday: Partly cloudy, high 82.
Friday: Increasing clouds, evening showers and thunderstorms, high 86.
Saturday: Showers, mainly in the morning, decreasing afternoon clouds, cooler, high 78.