6:55AM-WED: TONIGHT’S SHOWERS START AS SNOW OR SLEET IN PARTS OF NORTHWEST MA AND SOUTHERN VT BEFORE CHANGING TO RAIN REGION-WIDE AS WARM FRONT PASSES… BREEZY THURSDAY, QUITE MILD AND OVER 60º IN SPOTS… ISOLATED SHOWERS TOMORROW NIGHT, COOLER FRIDAY… ACCUMULATING SATURDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING SNOW STILL POSSIBLE FOR MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF RT. 2 CORRIDOR, RAIN/SNOW MIX SOUTH OF THERE… DRIER/COLD SUNDAY INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK…
Good morning folks, it’s chilly outside currently with temps in the 20s and 30s as high pressure is sitting right on top of us like a mother hen. However, clouds will be on the increase with rain and some snow/sleet arriving just after sunset.
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WEATHER BULLETIN:
–Good morning good people, we have more fronts crossing the region, kind of like our lives I suppose.
–We always have to manage changes that are foisted upon us by our work, our families, our friends, and the greater world… welcome to humanity on Earth. Onward we go…
–For today, we get some sun early, but clouds will build as high pressure tracks east-southeast and away, and southwest flow increases in the mid levels
–By afternoon, it should be mostly cloudy as our warm front approaches for tonight, and highs should reach the low to mid 40s
–Showers will arrive perhaps as early as 4-5pm in the Berkshires, and it may be cold enough as it moves in to mix with or change to snow or sleet in southern VT and northwestern MA near and north of Rt. 2
–A few spotty coatings are possible in the mountain tops, but otherwise no accumulation, and any icy hydrometeors change to rain as temps rise overnight with more showers moving through
–In fact we could be up to the mid to upper 40s by dawn tomorrow!
–Showers quit by morning, and we’re off to races with temps set to rise into the upper 50s to low 60s for a day with southerly breezes gusting 20-30mph at times under partial sunshine
–By Thursday evening, clouds build back in as a cold front sweeps into the region, but it won’t be producing as much moisture as tonight’s warm front
–Therefore, isolated showers are expected with lows in the 40s and highs 45-50º on our sunny Friday with lows near freezing
–Then we look to the southwest as a storm ejects east-northeast out of the Tennessee Valley destined to ride through the southern Ohio Valley and exit the Mid-Atlantic coastline Saturday
–Saturday morning will mostly dry with clouds thickening, and then first snow and rain showers arrive around noon or early afternoon on Saturday
–Highs should reach the low to upper 30s
–The best chance at mostly snow from this system, as I’ve been saying for days now, is along and north of the Rt. 2 corridor where a 1-4″ type snowfall is possible
–South of there I think more of a coating to an inch with a lot of rain mixing in given the milder mid levels that will nudge north
–It would take a real southward track trend to pull that 1-4″ range south and down to the level of the Mass Pike or CT/MA border, but we’ll see how it plays out in the coming days
–Snow and rain lasts Saturday night, and then leaves us with a cold but sunny Sunday with highs in the low to mid 30s and lows in the 20s as Winter seeks to re-establish its incoming presence
–Early next week looks cold and sunny, and our Tuesday storm potential appears to track south of us and out to sea
–However, a new signal has shown up for snow potential on Christmas Eve so I will keep an eye on that and keep you updated
Have a great day!