Mayor Wu has declared a heat emergency in Boston for Tuesday through Thursday, with the heat index (actual temperature plus humidity) possibly going above 100 during the day. Read more.
Weather
Joe Kidston watched the sun go down over the water and way out there, Boston, from Hull this evening.
Louise Miller watched the ominous clouds moving over Boston around 1:15 p.m.
Mr_jonez617 snapped "the strangest rainbow I've ever seen" at Crescent and Dorchester avenues before the Dorchester Day parade today. Read more.
Boy, it sure rained buckets early this morning, huh? In case you managed to sleep through it all, you could still get a feel for just how much rain fell inside Ruggles station, where Handmaid captured some of the many fine barrels the T put in to capture all that water inside the station.
Teddy Kokoros recorded the aftermath of a mighty wind at the JFK/UMass T stop this morning.
Damien Drella reports that high winds caused the partial collapse of a four-story section of an apartment building in Saugus. Read more.
A National Park Service/Coast Guard camera on Boston Light, where the ocean meets Boston Harbor, recorded the sea's ragin' glory at 6:24 a.m.
Photo via Boston Timelapse, which reposts photos from Boston Light, Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights every hour.
WCVB gets the scoop: The weather lights are out for several months of modernization, including the installation of more energy-efficient LED bulbs (so just like the Citgo sign).
So no snow (so what else is new?), but the National Weather Service has a high-wind warning in place between 8 p.m. and 2 p.m., Thursday, with possible gusts of up to 60 m.p.h. here in the Greater French Toast Region: Read more.
State Police report an 18-wheeler rolled over in the rain on I-495 northbound in Westford this morning, spilling lots and lots of pineapples and forcing the shutdown of two lanes.
The National Weather Service has issued coastal-flood watches for the entire Massachusetts coast for Sunday morning and afternoon, because of Yet Another Rain Storm that could mean 1 to 2 feet of flooding. Read more.
Last year, I responded to a neighbor who asked for help shoveling her driveway and accessible ramp since she could neither physically do it herself nor afford to pay someone to do it for her. I was happy to help!
The experience reminded me that neighbors who can't physically shovel or live on fixed incomes often have no option but to wait for the snow to melt. Without help, they can’t get to work, the grocery store, the pharmacy, or doctor appointments. Read more.
Jamaica Plain News reports the Arnold Arboretum lost some 40 "accessioned" trees, including a dozen hemlocks snapped in half - by a storm in December that brought both rain to already saturated soil and high winds.
And that means you'll have until 4 p.m. on Thursday to save your parking space, the one you've so arduously dug out (except in the South End and Bay Village, where space savers are never allowed).
Mayor Wu has declared a snow emergency for Tuesday, which means BPS schools and municipal buildings will be shut. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Pat Quintin files this snap of a cloudbow from a Green Line trolley between Lechmere and Union Square this afternoon
The Boston Water and Sewer Commission is out with some recommendations on how to keep your pipes from bursting with the temps making like a submarine and diving. Read more.