Mansfield's 7-Day Forecast Includes Cooler Temps, Chance of Thunderstorms

By Barbara Heins and Brian McCready.

The summer-like feel of this past weekend will continue into mid-week, and then temperatures will moderate for a few days.

In fact, if you enjoy warmer temps, enjoy today’s sunny skies with a high of about 80 degrees.

Things change late tonight with fog rolling in and staying until Tuesday morning’s commute, and then there is a chance of some showers and thunderstorms with temps in the lows 80s. The rain threat is less than 50 percent, according to the National Weather Service.

Beginning on Wednesday, the good news is it will be sunny, but temps will be hovering in the low to mid 60s until Friday when we could hit 70 degrees.

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The initial forecast for the upcoming weekend calls for a chance of rain on Saturday, only 30 percent at this time, and sunny skies on Sunday. Again temperatures will struggle to hit the upper 60s next weekend.

Again, enjoy today’s weather!

Here is the National Weather Service’s latest hyperlocal forecast for Mansfield:

• Today: Sunny, with a high near 82. Southwest wind 9 to 11 mph.
• Tonight: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms, then a chance of showers after 9pm. Areas of fog after 3am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with a low around 65. South wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
• Tuesday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 1pm and 5pm. Areas of fog between 8am and 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 87. Southwest wind 5 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
• Tuesday night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 54. Northwest wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
• Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.
• Wednesday night: Mostly clear, with a low around 42.
• Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 66.
• Thursday night: Mostly clear, with a low around 43.
• Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 72.
• Friday night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 49.
• Saturday: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 71. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
• Saturday night: Cloudy, with a low around 50.
• Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 73.

MAP: AccuWeather.com