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Fireworks Or Thunderstorms? Probably The Latter This Week

Thunderstorms are in the forecast each of the next three days. But things will clear up for the Fourth of July.

June is going into July with a bang, and it's not just those fireworks coming in from over the border.

Thunderstorms are in the forecast for each of the next three days, threatening on and off through Wednesday night. Many in Massachusetts already got their fill with an overnight thunder and lightning show.

The storms are the continuation of a patchy yet strong weekend disturbance. Things got so bad south of Boston that dozens of patients were evacuated from Norwood Hospital late Sunday night after flooding caused part of the hospital to lose power. More than 80 patients were evacuated.

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Storms continued overnight, with bright flashes of lightning and loud cracks of thunder.

There are no weather warnings in effect as of Monday morning, save for a special marine warning in Cape waters.

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Here's what the next three days will look like in the Boston area, courtesy of the National Weather Service:

  • Monday — Showers and thunderstorms before noon, then showers between noon and 2 p.m., then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2 p.m. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog before 10am, then patchy fog after 2 p.m. High near 76. Light northeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 80 percent. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch are possible, except higher amounts in thunderstorms.
  • Monday night — Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 2 a.m., then showers likely. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog. Low around 64. Light northeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 80 percentNew precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch are possible, except higher amounts in thunderstorms.
  • Tuesday — Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 5 p.m., then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5 p.m. Patchy fog. High near 73. Northeast wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80 percent. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch are possible, except higher amounts in thunderstorms.
  • Tuesday night — A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. Light north wind. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch are possible, except higher amounts in thunderstorms.
  • Wednesday —A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1 p.m., then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4 p.m.. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent.
  • Wednesday night — A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 10 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent

Summer weather will return Thursday, when skies clear and temperatures rebound to the mid-80s. The Fourth of July would be a perfect night for fireworks — partly cloudy with a low of 62 and calm winds — but most communities, including Boston, have canceled official displays.

That hasn't stopped people from setting off fireworks over the past couples weeks. Complaints in Boston are up over 5,000 percent from last year, prompting Mayor Marty Walsh to put together a task force to address it.

"The fireworks situation is out of control," Walsh said Friday on Boston Public Radio. "I hear them every night. Everyone hears them at night. They’re not even fireworks, they’re more like bombs."

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