Good morning folks, we’ve got thunderstorms and showers moving through the region this morning with hail already reported in the southern Berkshires and a fresh Severe Thunderstorm Warning up for central Hampshire County at 7:10am.
As you know I do the Celestials, the North, Central and Southern Zone Summaries, and then our Weather Discussion and/or Salient Points below, but before we get into all of the substantial weather changes on our doorstep, let’s check a note from our local and delicious sponsor, #TandemBagelCo, with their newest location in West Springfield, MA.
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***DHTWN DAILY WEATHER REPORT***
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NWS ALERTS
–None, but we have active weather today with showers, downpours and thunderstorms, some of which may produce hail and/or strong gusty winds, with wind moving in behind our cold front, active day today.
DHTWN REMINDER
–The odds of being a human is 1 in 400 trillion… make it count, even in a small way (see Kurt Vonnegut quote at end of post)
DAILY CELESTIAL (STAR):
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:37am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 6:47pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 12 hours and 10 minutes
–AUTUMNAL EQUINOX: Arrives tonight at 9:03pm
DAILY CELESTIAL (MOON):
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 5:46pm this afternoon
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 3:57am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Northwest
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Northeast
–MOON PHASE: Waning Crescent (12.1%)
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DAILY TERRESTRIAL (ZoneCast)
ZONE 1 (Northern Region)
Southern VT, Southwest NH, N. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Low to Mid 60s
–Low Temps: Upper 30s to Low 40s
–Humidity: Dewpoints in the 60s crash into the 40s tonight, and 30s tomorrow, super dry air coming from Canada
–Wind: Lighter southerly veering to the west and gusting 20-30mph
–Skies: Cloudy
–Precipitation: Showers, downpours and thunderstorms with some strong to severe storms possible with gusty wind and hail through 4pm, then it abates
ZONE 2 (Central Region)
WMass, N. CMass, N. Litchfield County, C./S. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Low to Upper 60s
–Low Temps: Low to Mid 40s
–Humidity: Dewpoints in the 60s crash into the 40s tonight, and 30s tomorrow, super dry air coming from Canada
–Wind: Lighter southerly veering to the west and gusting 20-30mph
–Skies: Cloudy
–Precipitation: Showers, downpours and thunderstorms with some strong to severe storms possible with gusty wind and hail through 4pm, then it abates
ZONE 3 (Southern Region)
S. CMass, S. Litchfield County, NC.CT, & NE.CT
–High Temps: Upper 60s to Low 70s
–Low Temps: Low to Mid 40s
–Humidity: Dewpoints in the 60s crash into the 40s tonight, and 30s tomorrow, super dry air coming from Canada
–Wind: Lighter southerly veering to the west and gusting 20-30mph
–Skies: Cloudy
–Precipitation: Showers, downpours and thunderstorms with some strong to severe storms possible with gusty wind and hail through 4pm, then it abates
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WEATHER REPORT
Good morning everybody, big changes on our first day of Autumn, so let’s let ‘er rip!!!!!
–We a short-lived warm front that is through the area with a very strong cold front moving into central NY as I type
–These morning warm-frontal thunderstorms that developed dropped dime-sized hail in the southern Berkshires earlier
–They are now pushing into the central and southern Pioneer Valley of MA and north-central CT
–We can’t rule out strong gusty winds or small hail with these at the 7am hour, but I am doubtful of it based on what I’m seeing
–Pack the umbrellas and rain jackets, as waves of showers, downpours and thunderstorms will sweep our region through this morning and into the early afternoon and should clear out of here by 1-3pm, more like 3-5pm in central MA and northeast CT
–Rain totals look to be healthy, a widespread half inch to 1.5″ of rain, maybe some 2″ amounts, which is needed
–The cold front moves through by early afternoon, and lighter southerlies will gust out of the west 20-30mph
–Dewpoints in the 60s (humid) will plummet into the 40s tonight (super dry), and then the 30s for Friday
–Winds will continue out of the northwest tonight as our upper level trough and surface cold front sweep eastward and pick up Hurricane Fiona and hurl it into eastern Nova Scotia after midnight into Saturday morning
–After the Autumnal Equinox passes through at 9:03pm tonight, lows in the WMass region will be in the upper 30s to mid 40s as wind gusts continue up to 20-30mph
–For Friday, a blustery, chilly, first day of Autumn arrives, and while it will be partly sunny, highs will only reach the low to mid 50s with northwest winds gusting 25-40mph
–This will produce wind chills into the 40s, so bundle up tomorrow!
–Wind continues Friday night, which prevents widespread frost from occurring but patchy frost is still possible with lows in the mid to upper 30s
–Saturday continues blustery as wind as high pressure moving to low pressure, and Fiona will be literally vacuuming our region, pulling wind through it and into its core as it slams into Atlantic Canada causing serious problems there
–This weekend will be mostly sunny, so we have that to look forward to
–However, gusts of 20-30mph are expected on Saturday with highs in the low to mid 60s and lows in the 40s, with highs in the 65-70º on Sunday and lows near 50º
–Early next week is a bit murky, but looks showery at times with highs in the 60s Monday and Tuesday and then cooler again by mid week
–Fall has arrived! Have a great day!
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AND REMEMBER…
“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies: Goddamn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
–Kurt Vonnegut