August 16th, hope your morning is off to a great start, im gene lavanchy. Sara im sara underwood. We have a dry morning and humidity is building and it could make for Severe Weather and water. Lets check in. Gene severe waiter at the restaurant. Jason low risk for tornado, something to watch carefully this afternoon, so overall shaping out a nice morning but afternoon time not same deal. Here is risk for tornado. Best north and west of worcester, so thats where we are watching keene, southward and couple showers natick, framingham, we have had a few nice shots of rainbows coming in from around the worcester area and light showers occasionally embedded, moderate showers heading to new ipswich, storm, back to the west as warm front most in, humidity, heat build and scattered storms and some could be severe this afternoon around 2 00 in the boston area much more coming up. Catherine look at how the roads are doing today at 7 00. 93 jammed up bedford somerville, also the expressway jammed
Sara im sara underwood. A lot less humid than we have been dealing with. Julie grauert is in for shiri spear this morning. Jason, you say we are looking at 80s by the coast and 90s inland. Jason humidity coming down just a little bit and take that turn. Temperatures right now middle 70s, a little cooler to the west and oppressive community with dew point scale, land in 60s today and still kind of and stuffy. Take the south shore forecast out of upper 90s, temperatures middle 80s for better part of the day hitting highs toward midafternoon right around 87, 88 . And few 90s sprinkled in metrowest neighborhoods, closer to the coast, mid80s and tracking return for rain tomorrow, hourbyhour straight ahead and right now stephanie is roads. Stephanie 93 southbound is definitely stop and go but the big problem area, of course, is the expressway. We are talking about 6 miles an hour just south of neponset. Again, theres restricted flow, northbound southampton street and good idea right there. I
Weather later today, but so far, it is dry at our zip trip to westford, shiri spear, yule yule and michele lazcano. Hi, pretty ladies. Good morning. I feel we are live from westford this morning and i already feel a great day. The sun is coming up. You are talking food. Michele food and horseback riding. Julie i am talking food cream. Michele you are talking hot weather. Shiri perfect ice cream, lemonade, possible si calves. All these will be great on a day like today. We are starting off really, really warm this morning. We have partly cloudy skies even here in westford. A little mix of sunshine. Partly cloudy conditions as well. 78 degrees right now in boston. 72 in worcester. 76 in nashua and 75 in plymouth. How about that, we are starting off in the upper 70s this partly cloudy now. A mix of sun and clouds through the Morning Hours and noontime, go close to 90 and the heat index is more like 98 degrees. By 3 p. M. , the heat index will feel like about 103 degrees. Now there is the
Diane less than 24 hours after the stabbing, Woburn Police announced an arrest in what they call a brutal attack outside this jake n joes restaurant. There is no clear indication of motive in this investigation and it continues to be ongoing and active. It happened just after midnight this morning as the restaurant was closing. Anybody was there last night that could get close enough there was a considerable crime scene outside the Restaurant Police say 36yearold james lyons is now facing charges for assault with intent to murder. The police chief says the suspect was arrested at a home in woburn adding that social media and Good Old Fashioned Police Work helped investigators track the suspect down. Facebook played a big part on it it goes to identification were not in a position to talk about that right now gerry fruggiero, the director of operations for the restaurant we pride ourselves on being a family oriented biz. Maria also breaking tonight, our first detailed account of what re
Interior. We have got mostly clear skies. Visibility not an issue, although in keene, you are seeing lower visibility. I will be tracking this patchy fog could be possible but a bright start. Temperatures climb into the 80s by your lunchhour and into the afternoon mid to upper 80s and mostly sunny skies. And slightly cooler at the beaches because we will be watching for afternoon sea breeze to develop with those winds out of the north turning to the east, but will be an above average day. Sun and the chances of rain that will be increasing through the weekend coming up. A check of your traffic with stephanie. How are the roads looking . Stephanie you know they are actually looking pretty good. A lot of those issues and closures have cleared up. In the last five minutes, that one lane that was closed on 93 northbound has since cleared and this is good news there. Just a bit of slowdowns on the expressway and nothing to worry about too much at this hour. But right now we are looking and