Here is the good news for anyone with outdoor plans. The daytime hours are not the problem. Today stays on the cool and cloudy side with only spotty sprinkles or an isolated light shower possible, so you can still get out and about without getting soaked. The real rain holds off until much later.
The heaviest batch arrives very late Saturday night and pushes into early Sunday morning. That window brings steadier rain, a few embedded thunderstorms and some downpours, making the overnight into predawn hours the wettest stretch of the whole weekend. If you can time your errands and outings around that overnight surge, you will dodge the worst of it.
How much rain will fall this weekend?
Not a washout everywhere, but enough to notice in spots. Some locations could pick up around an inch of rain when the heavier band moves through, which is a meaningful soaking for a late summer weekend.
The catch is that it will not fall evenly. Forecast guidance favors eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire for the bulk of the rain, so areas from Worcester to western Massachusetts may see far less of an impact. In other words, your weekend could range from barely damp to genuinely wet depending on which side of the region you are on.
What will the weekend temperatures feel like?
The two days will feel quite different. Today stays cool with a northeast wind and highs only reaching the low 70s, a noticeably crisp note for this time of year. Overnight lows dip into the low 60s…