After a very dry start to September, at least a portion of New England will be getting beneficial rain over the next few days. This will come as an area of low pressure to New England’s south will cycle rounds of showers into the region from Thursday through the end of the week. These showers will still struggle to push into northern New England with high pressure and an advancing cold front acting as a shield. Overall, showers have trended northward over the past 24 hours.
The northern extent of the system should begin to push into the southern third of New England early Thursday morning. From there, showers will gradually push northward into most of southern New England. Showers will continue to rotate into the region around the system through the day Thursday.
There’s a good chance most areas won’t see a steady rain the entire day, but showers will be cycling through all day. Showers will be more frequent the farther south in New England you are. There will also be a chance for a few showers across northern New England from an advancing backdoor cold front, but moisture and instability are both highly limited with this feature, so it won’t produce much for northern New England compared to the showers in southern New England during the day Thursday.