Good morning folks, we’ve got clouds building this morning, especially from about the Rt. 2 corridor in WMass south through CT as moisture works into the region ahead of a cold front that comes through tonight.
As the day wears on, our chances for scattered showers, possibly heavy at times, along with a thunderstorm or even a solitary microburst will increase as the front approaches, to be followed by waves of showers of varying intensities which should set up shop early Monday morning and last into Monday night before they #TaperTuesday with drier weather by late week, but before we dive into all of the weather details below, let’s check a note from our local weekend sponsor, #YankeeMattressFactory, with their main headquarters in Agawam, MA along with stores located around the valley.
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***DHTWN DAILY WEATHER REPORT***
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Good morning everybody, while we don’t exactly where the heaviest will set up until the waves develop and push into the region, we have the best chance that we’ll see for days to get some much-needed, substantial rainfall into our region tomorrow and tomorrow night.
It’s unfortunate timing for those with outdoor Labor Day plans, but I’m here to say that if I were you, I’d be adjusting my plans for an inside Plan B type situation, because while some will get heavier rain than others, it looks cool, cloudy and showery for tomorrow and tomorrow evening.
To back up, we’ve got a nice start to the day this Sunday morning with temps in the 50s and low 60s, and a mix of sun and clouds.
A cold front to our north and northwest will be tracking south and southeast and will combine with moisture bubbling up from the south.
Before that arrives, we’ll get a very warm and humid day in, with highs in the low to upper 80s, along with dewpoints in the mid to perhaps upper 60s. Clouds will increase with time, so enjoy any sunny periods you can get this morning and early afternoon.
As our front approaches, any isolated showers earlier in the day will increase a little bit to become more scattered about the region, and we could see a strong, slow-moving thunderstorm.
In fact, we can’t rule out a microburst, but it’s a low chance, and this environment would likely only produce one if such a thing happened.
It probably won’t, but had to mention it.
Wind fields are weak over the region, so these showers/storms will be slow-moving, which could produce a lot of rain in very isolated spots or under the cell tracks themselves.
Scattered showers will continue over night with lows in the low to mid 60s with patchy fog late.
By early Monday morning, our cold front will have stalled to a stationary frontal boundary somewhere over southern New England, probably over northern or central CT into northern RI and EMass.
As the upper level trough approaches from our west, and a couple of waves ripple along the front, we should see larger and heavier periods of rainfall develop over the greater WMass region.
With time, this whole complex will shift south into CT and RI, which I think is where the heaviest rain should fall, like 1-3″, and maybe a little more, with more like a quarter inch to 2″ along and north of the MA/CT state line.
Of course, there are always precip outliers in either direction, as weather amorphous and organic, and doesn’t follow our state lines, or county lines, town/city lines, or main interstates and state routes/roads that are used to approximate where impacts will be heaviest and lightest.
Ahh, Life…. rarely does it fit in with what our linear, logical, left-brain likes to foist up on our perceptions.
Anyway, Monday is rainy, and it could rain hard at times, with street flooding possible.
Highs will be chilly, only reaching the mid 60s to low 70s with patchy fog possible, and lows in the upper 50s to low 60s with continued showers and downpours at times, with heaviest rain sinking south toward the coast with time.
Tuesday starts off cloudy and potentially showery, but we should see tapering off to just mostly cloudy conditions with highs only in the mid to upper 60s and lows in the 50s.
Wednesday through Saturday looks to be dominated by high pressure with mostly sunny conditions, and highs in the 70s Wednesday and Thursday, and highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s Friday and Saturday with lows in the 50s to lower 60s during this period.
Folks, I will report again by early this evening, but I am in the middle of some personal stuff (I’m fine), which will likely prevent me from posting about individual storm cells today.
All I can say, is that if you get a thunderstorm in your area, use your senses. If it starts getting breezy and gusty, get away from windows, because again, a very small chance does exist for an isolated microburst.
Be weather aware, and have a great day…
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–Kurt Vonnegut