6:45AM-TUES: STRANGE, SUPER HOT, WICKED BRIGHT, HYDROGEN-AND-HELIUM SPHERE DOMINATES OUR VIEW OF THE COSMOS TODAY, SURROUNDED BY A FIELD OF LIGHT BLUE… WINTRY MIX MORNING SHOWERS CHANGE TO PLAIN RAIN TOMORROW… COLDER AIR THURSDAY, AND A MODERATE FRIDAY SNOWFALL IS STILL ON THE TABLE, FOLLOWED BY A COLD/DRY SATURDAY, AND SHOWERY MILDER SUNDAY AS THE SEESAW CONTINUES UP AND DOWN IN OUR NEW PATTERN…
Good morning everybody, thank you for sharing all of those beautiful sunset pics last night, which are a harbinger for coming events today, that being the return of sunshine, hooray! However, it’ll be short-lived as we begin a series of alternating fair and inclement weather days through the coming weekend, but before I dive into those details I’ve got a note from our local and delicious sponsor, #TandemBagelCo, with a new location in West Springfield, MA.
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DISCUSSION:
Good morning everyone, it is a freaking cold out there! A number of single digits readings in the high terrain of WMass and SVT and SWNH, and low to mid teens elsewhere.
We’ve got high pressure up and down the eastern seaboard centered over the Virginias and tracking slowly east-northeast.
This will result in slackening, lighter winds and sunny skies for the first abundant-sun day in a while now. Highs will rise into the upper 20s to mid 30s, and then after a clear start, clouds will build into the region ahead of a warm front with lows in the low to mid 20s.
For Wednesday, if showers associated with a warm front get in here fast enough, we could see scattered freezing rain or sleet showers, changing to plain rain showers into the afternoon.
The trade-off is that we’ll see highs climb into the low to mid 40s for a day, but it’ll be cloudy and showery. By the evening, we’ll dry out and southwest winds gusting to 20mph will veer our of the west and also gust to about 20mph as colder/drier air works into the region. Lows will be in the mid to upper 20s.
For Thursday, colder air advects into the region, and some early morning snow showers are possible in the Berkshires, western hilltowns and southern VT.
Thursday looks to be a pretty sweet January day, actually, with highs in the low to mid 30s under partly sunny skies and breezy west winds.
Then we turn to Thursday night into the first part of Friday, when we are monitoring a coastal, yet progressive snowstorm that may bring our first widespread regional/plowable snowfall.
This is no blockbuster, as there is nothing “downstream” (meaning, nothing in the direction the storm is tracking) to block the storm, slow it down, and force it to dump more precipitation on southern New England.
That’s the definition of a “progressive storm”.
However, at the moment, guidance is starting to coalesce around the storm getting upper level trough support and also helping it to dig its track a little more southerly, and then pull it a little more northerly toward the Cape and Islands, while strengthening pretty rapidly.
This storm would have more moisture with it, and the cold would be in place for a likely all-snow event.
If it lands on our shores, we could be looking at a 3-6″ type snowfall, which is enough to cause travel issues, to get the plows out, and to up the pretty quotient across our January landscape.
Friday highs will be in the upper 20s to low 30s, and any snowfall would likely end sometime by sunset, with a cloudy dry night with lows in the teens.
Saturday looks cold but sunny with highs in the 25-30º range and lows in the teens.
A brief milder surge works into the region on Sunday with a warm frontal approach which may cause mixed showers of all types starting in the morning and lasting during the day, before the Arctic hammer drops early next week and we likely get the coldest air of our nascent winter to overspread the region like icy molasses.
Lots of changes on the way, so remember that I post every day whether I’m in your feed or not, so remember to turn the channel to DHTWN and I’ll keep you updated!
Have a great day!