Hazardous Weather Outlook in Effect Today in Anticipation of Thunderstorms

Keep an eye on the skies for thunderstorms this afternoon.

The National Weather Service has issued a "hazardous weather outlook" for most of Massachusetts, including the Woburn area, in effect through the afternoon in anticipation of "strong to severe" thunderstorms. Northern Connecticut and southern New Hampshire are also under the weather outlook.

"A line of showers and thunderstorms, some of which my be strong to severe, will impact the area," the National Weather Service stated in the outlook.

"In addition," it continues, "showers and thunderstorms may produce localized heavy rainfall which could result in urban and poor drainage street flooding and require the issuance of short-fused flood advisories."

The Woburn area, however, may be spared the worst of the storms. According to NWS, the "best chances for strong to severe weather are anticipated to be across southwestern New Hampshire, western Massachusetts and northwestern Connecticut."