By HebaIssaAccuWeather.com
As the nation mourned the loss of Sen. Ted Kennedy, the weather cooperatedin Boston, Mass., through Friday afternoon for the public viewing at the JohnF. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. However, weather conditions willworsen over eastern New England through this evening.Tropical Rainstorm Danny and storm systems to the west are combining forces, tomake for a miserable, windswept, flooding rain.
Kennedy's invitation-only funeral Mass is being held at Our Lady of PerpetualHelp Basilica in Roxbury until 12:30 p.m. A motorcade to the LoganInternational Airport will follow. Temperatures will be in the 60s on thisincreasingly stormy day.
Kennedy's body will then be taken to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia,where a private burial service will be held at 5:30 p.m. While there may be agusty, drenching thunderstorm in the Arlington area this afternoon and evening,it is impossible to say at this time if rain will hit during the precise timeof the cemetery service. High temperatures in the Arlington area will be in themiddle 80s with high humidity, but temperatures will be knocked down into thelower 70s during any downpour.
AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski contributed to the content ofthis story.
