And that would explain all the debris on the Northeast Corridor tracks in Mansfield. The National Weather Service reports on why there was so much debris on the Northeast Corridor tracks: Read more.
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By adamg - 8/18/23 - 12:04 pm
The MBTA reported at 11:14 a.m. it had suspended all Providence Line service "until further notice due to debris on the tracks from severe weather in the Mansfield area. At 11:37, Keolis reported a train to Boston had left Wickford Junction but would hold at Attleboro because some of that debris remained on the tracks. Read more.
By adamg - 8/18/23 - 9:04 am
Chris Ferry gazed long into the abyss at the top of Peters Hill on the Roslindale side of the Arnold Arboretum this morning, rather than looking out over downtown Boston.
Down the hill, on the other side of Bussey Street, the fog began to envelope the trees: Read more.
By adamg - 8/8/23 - 4:09 pm
A roving UHub correspondent decided discretion was the better part of driving valor and turned around when he saw how flooded St. Thomas More Road, between the BC lower campus and the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, was after today's torrent. Read more.
By adamg - 8/8/23 - 12:19 pm
The MBTA reported at 11:42 a.m. that it had gone to D Line bustitution between Fenway and Reservoir "due to excessive water at Brookline Hills."
By adamg - 7/27/23 - 10:09 pm
Maria Daniels, in Harvard Square, was one of many people who looked up after the rain stopped this evening.
In Jamaica Plain, Handmaid saw the rainbows, too, but also a still angry cloud: Read more.
By adamg - 7/27/23 - 12:03 pm
Not just because of the heat, but because the National Weather Service says we can expect severe weather anytime through 8 p.m. or so, and that means: Read more.
By adamg - 7/27/23 - 9:03 am
Boston has declared a heat emergency for today and tomorrow, what with temperatures expected to climb into the 90s and the heat index (you know, it ain't the heat, it's the humidity) expected to get up near 100.
The city is opening cooling centers at 15 community centers between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. each day and notes all BPL branches have AC and that there are also 64 splash pads at Boston parks on which to stay cool.
By adamg - 7/25/23 - 3:48 pm
As the torrential rains pour down, Columbia Road has flooded at Hamilton (where the train tracks cross) and in the area of Devon Street.
The flooding there sent motorists down Quincy Street, where they promptly had to stop near Ceylon Street, because of flooding under the train tracks there. One motorist climbed out of his car and was standing on the roof of his car due to floodwaters that came about halfway up his car.
By adamg - 7/22/23 - 10:59 pm
Chelsea Scanner compiled video of last night's storming over Chelsea: Read more.
By adamg - 7/18/23 - 8:59 am
Brooks Payne pointed his camera up towards the sky over the South End this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 7/17/23 - 2:05 pm
View of downtown Boston today from Wright's Tower in the Middlesex Fells in Medford. Photo by Tastesred.
State air monitors in Roxbury, Dorchester, Chinatown and Chelsea are currently showing levels of pollutants in the area that are "unhealthy for sensitive groups:" carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone and "fine particles" in Roxbury; carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and fine particles in Dorchester; fine particles in Chinatown and Chelsea.
If you're five to seven miles outside of downtown Boston, the city appears to be lost in haze.
By adamg - 7/16/23 - 12:05 pm
The National Weather Service says be alert - and that even if we don't get tornadoes, we could see flooding from heavy rains.
By adamg - 7/15/23 - 9:51 pm
Heavy rain and flooding, though, are more likely, the NWS says. There's a flood watch posted for 2 a.m. through late night Sunday.
By adamg - 7/14/23 - 12:20 pm
Tim West went up to the top of Peters Hill in the Arboretum around 7:30 this morning.
By adamg - 7/11/23 - 8:38 am
Ksenia Dunn got a good view of yesterday's rainbow over (and into!) the Charles River, along with some UFOs (OK, she says they were really just reflections from the office lights on her window).
By adamg - 7/10/23 - 9:48 pm
Amy Weingarten Salvucci took in the post-storm rainbow over the South End this evening. Brooks Payne captured it as well.
Romeo Trauma watched the rainbow over Dudley Street in Dorchester: Read more.
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