Ride home. Mike you can see there is a lot is all headed this way. Commute. Boston is at 48. Those areas that have cold pockets of air, we are throwing some more and moisture over the top of that warm over the top of it. Right near the shoreline, you are not seeing the fog. You have fog this afternoon, then you have this rain which is west in march its way eastward. To come in this direction. Should be some steady showers and right during the evening commute you see what happens. There could be a rumble of thunder down to the south. I think the heaviest rain will 8 00, still raining pretty good and then we move everything off. By midnight, down to a few showers and we will say goodbye to this one. Maybe some showers tomorrow on the cape and some flurries this weekend. Erika new at noon, 10 dcf workers have been fired for failing to get social work licenses. A state law that went into effect last year requires those employees be licensed. These workers were given nine months from their
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Great to see you there this morning, jr. We have a lot of clouds live in revere. Its a good day to check out a movie this afternoon. As we work through the morning hours, clouds continue to thicken up, temps near 40 degrees. For december, 41, thats our normal high. Were talking rain drops, not snowflakes as this weather system moves through new england. The evening commute is wet, if youre doing Holiday Shopping after work, make sure you have the rain gear ready to go. Temps, upper 40s to around 50. Time for fasttrack traffic. Lets go to the maps, youll notice a lot of green. Fallen power cables at route 1a northbound at fordman street. Thats the only trouble spot we have right now. The pike is all green back out to 495. South of town, route 24 looking good as well. 93 southbound, 128 to the zakam bridge. Star wars fans gearing up for the force awakens tomorrow night. For more, lets head out to nicole oliviero in boston. Reporter this is the day waiting for. So, a lot of excitement has
Sara im sara underwood. Take you live to the theater this hour and step into the way back machine and show us what life was back in 1977. Shiri spear here with a mess for the commute. Shiri patchy drizzle forming at norwood temperature above freezing in all of massachusetts right now which is good news because the drizzle will moisten the roadways up into portsmouth, New Hampshire, nashua, New Hampshire 39 but some of the in betweens are close to freezing. So where we see drizzle gun there we will have to watch out for icy patches in southeastern New Hampshire. But by 9 00 a. M. We have more drizzle popping here, temperatures still right around 40 in in worcester, mid40s in boston and climating up to upper 40s by lunchtime, drizzle does in the want to budge, expect it to be on and off and scattered fashion moving in between probably between one and 4 00 p. M. Today, turns widespread and after 4 00 p. M. It actually turns heavy and that means the evening commute will be a much sloppier
Colors and paths. A few of them pulling back toward the coast. But it looks like the odd man out at this point. Most want the go this way. By early next week and lets hope nothing changes with that and we will be just fine. This is what has happened. We have this swirl in the atmosphere. That could have come far enough east to capture this and pull it back toward the coast. Its going to pull the tropical rainfall into the coastline and bring torrential rain and floods to the carolinas. No doubt in the next couple of days. Were in for a rough weekend but it wont capture the center of the storm. And it becomes at the mercy of the normal jet stream patterns. Neither of these scenarios included the possibility of it coming up the coast. But that was never really going to be the path. It was going to be one way or the other and now sort of the center line. Here is the rain that is over us. I point this out because this has nothing to do with the hurricane or the tropical system at all. The