WHERE’S DAVE?
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DAVE’S WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL
–Some high clouds today, but mostly sunny, cool, calm
–Temps increase after midnight into Saturday morning with showers developing and gusty winds during the day
–Sunday is the pick of the week, sunnier, cool, less wind at this point
–Monday looks similar to Sunday but a bit milder, still cool
–More showers arrive the third cold frontal passage in a week
–After mid-week we cool down more deeply, and could enter the 2nd week of December looking at winter storm potential before the holidays given the upper pattern setting up
Now then, before we jump into the weather discussion/details below, let’s check a note from our local and delicious sponsor, #TandemBagelCo, with their newest location in West Springfield, MA.
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A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR:
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***DHTWN DAILY WEATHER REPORT***
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NWS ALERTS
–None
DHTWN REMINDER
–The odds of being a human is 1 in 400,000 billion… make it count, even in a small way (see Kurt Vonnegut quote at end of post)
DAILY CELESTIAL (STAR):
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 7:00am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:19pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 19 minutes
NIGHTLY CELESTIAL (MOON):
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 1:36pm this afternoon
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 2:11am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Gibbous (70.1%)
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DAILY TERRESTRIAL (ZoneCast)
ZONE 1 (Northern Region)
Southern VT, Southwest NH, N. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Low to Mid 40s
–Low Temps: Upper 20s to Low 30s
–Wind: Light southerly
–Skies: Mostly Sunny, some high clouds
–Precipitation: None
ZONE 2 (Central Region)
WMass, N. CMass, N. Litchfield County, C./S. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Low to Mid 40s
–Low Temps: Upper 20s to Low 30s
–Wind: Light southerly
–Skies: Mostly Sunny, some high clouds
–Precipitation: None
ZONE 3 (Southern Region)
S. CMass, S. Litchfield County, NC.CT, & NE.CT
–High Temps: Low to Mid 40s
–Low Temps: Low to Mid 30s
–Wind: Light southerly
–Skies: Mostly Sunny, some high clouds
–Precipitation: None
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MORNING DISCUSSION
Good morning everybody, as The Kinks crooned, now we’re back, where we started… here we go ’round again! Day after day (we) get up and (we) say, come on and do it again! Do it again! Do it agaaaiiinnnn!!! *insert noodly guitar lick here over cool rock beat*
If you’re a Kinks fan, that’s a fun earworm for the day, and if you’re not, you think I’m a weirdo, but you probably already think that anyway, so no harm done!
As for our weather, we’ve got a lovely end to the week with high pressure shifting south of us and bringing mostly sunny skies with some high clouds and highs in the low to mid 40s with a light southerly wind.
For this early evening, it will dry and feature light wind, so temps drop pretty quickly into the low to mid 30s, but shouldn’t go much below that before southerly flow increases ahead of a storm passing, once again, to our northwest.
This means saids southerly flow and increasing clouds will be causing temps to RISE by or after midnight, and we should be into the upper 30s to 40s by dawn tomorrow morning.
Saturday will feature overcast skies, and while a few showers are possible in the early to mid morning timeframe, it is the late morning into early afternoon when the bulk of the rain arrives.
This will not last long, but a wet afternoon is forecast, and southerly winds should gust 25-40mph at times as the pressure gradient increases, and our cold front approaches from the west.
Highs will be quite mild, reaching the low to mid 50s. Our cold front passes by early evening, and we may see a few lake effect snow showers in the Berkshires, with lows dropping into the upper 20s.
Sunday and Monday look lovely, but seasonably cold with highs int the mid 30s to low 40s Sunday, and low to mid 40s Monday with lows in the 20s both nights under mostly clear skies Sunday night and increasing clouds Monday night.
By Tuesday, another storm passes north of us, and spreads more pre-frontal showers into the region with highs either side of 50º – mild temps that will last into Wednesday as well.
We’ll exist in this mild sector for those two days, and then a sharper cold front comes through Wednesday with a few more showers and much colder temps by late week, down into the 30s.
Thereafter, we watch the 2nd week and 3rd week of December to see if building cold meets up with favorable storm tracks to produce snow or ice in our region…. stay tuned!
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“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