Today shouldn't have been this cold. The heavy rains today are from the remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy, which made landfall earlier this week in the Gulf States and dissipated as its moisture was carried up into our area.

Tropical storms are warm-core storm systems. This moisture is directly from the Gulf of Mexico. It should be warmer and humid with these rains, but instead we have raw winds and temperatures in the low 60s.

This is the result of continued below-normal sea surface temperatures off the Eastern New England coastline. The ocean temperature off Boston is still in the upper 50s and sinks to near 50 by the time you get out near Newfoundland.

The sea surface temperatures are so cold for this time of year that even the computer models are trying to send more backdoor cold fronts through the area next week. This is less and less likely, but a northeast wind is still unusually chilly for mid-July.