With less than a week out from the Boston Marathon, this is the part of the marathon training experience when anxious runners constantly hit refresh on the weather forecast for Hopkinton and the seven other communities that make up the 26.2-mile course.
According to the National Weather Service’s initial forecast for Marathon Monday, it appears to be a better day for runners than spectators.
Thankfully for the runners, they won’t have to worry about 70-degree sunny days like this week. Temps in Hopkinton at the start of the race should be in the upper 50s, and temps in Boston shouldn’t top 60 degrees in the afternoon. The normal high for Boston on April 17 is 57 degrees.
Runners may have to deal with some scattered rain showers, but there’s a chance for a helpful wind at their backs.
“Monday seems like a very seasonable April day with some spotty showers during the morning,” Torry Gaucher, meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Boston office, told the Herald six days before race day.
“There’s generally about a 40% chance for rain through 1 p.m. on Monday,” he added.
The wind appears to be coming from the west on Marathon Monday, and the Boston Marathon course goes from west to east.
“At least runners won’t be running into the wind,” Gaucher said.
The weather pattern shows a cold front pushing through the region late on Sunday, bringing some showers that will likely linger into Monday.
The meteorologist cautioned that “things can still change this far out.”
“It’s a forecast that people will want to keep on top of,” Gaucher said. “Things do ebb and flow forecast-wise a week out.”
Before marathon weekend, temps will climb into the upper 70s in the Boston-area, and jump into the 80s where the marathon starts — which would have been devastating for runners on Monday.
It’s not out of the question that a few spots in Massachusetts approach 90 degrees on Friday. The highest likelihood for close to 90 degrees will be in the Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts.
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