>>>POST SECTIONS<<< --DHTWN's Reminder (Food) --Weekly Nutshell (Overall impact list) --Sponsor Note (Tandem Bagel Co.) --NWS Alerts (Advisories, Warnings, Watches) --Celestial Data (Sun/Moon info) --Regional Summaries (Local expectations) --Morning Discussion (Detailed Weather Story) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> DHTWN REMINDER <<< If you have food in your fridge, or your pantry, or can get access to it, if you know how to cook or prepare basic foods, and if you can chew it and swallow your food and digest it, you're doing amazingly well in life. Well done. I'm serious. Think about it. Life starts there. Oxygen, Water, Food, Shelter. Family. Friends. Good. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> DAVE’S WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL <<< --Partly to mostly sunny skies with haze from wildfire smoke aloft this morning gives way to afternoon clouds --A few showers or a thunderstorm is expected by very late afternoon or evening --Showers pick up in coverage and intensity tonight into Saturday --It won't rain all day Saturday, but periods of showers and downpours with some thunder expected, much cooler in the 60s, with upper 50s SVT/SWNH! --Sunday is less wet, but afternoon scattered showers expected --Monday and Tuesday may see return of ground smoke, with generally fair weather and some afternoon instability showers  --Drier by mid to late week and warmer, as the Summer Solstice rolls in, but for now let's check a note from our local and delicious sponsor, #TandemBagelCo, with their newest location in the Stop & Shop Plaza on King Street in Northampton, MA. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR <<< Dave Hayes The Weather Nut is Sponsored by Individual Community Members, Patrons & Tandem Bagel Company... No matter the weather, Tandem Bagel is always there for you at several valley locations to make your mornings brighter! With bagels baked fresh daily (including Gluten-Free options), house-whipped cream cheese, coffee, and tons of lunch options, Tandem is the perfect quick stop for lunch, breakfast, or a coffee and bagel to go. Find them in Easthampton, Northampton, Hadley, Florence, and West Springfield, or use their super-streamlined online ordering tool by visiting their website.

>>> NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALERTS <<< --None >>> YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS <<< STAR: --OUR STAR ROSE AT: 5:13am this morning --OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 8:28pm this evening --TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 15 hours and 15 minutes --PEAK LIGHT IS CRESTING NEXT TWO WEEKS!!!  MOON: --OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 7:28pm this evening --OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 4:22am tomorrow morning --MOON SET DIRECTION: Northwest --MOON RISE DIRECTION: Northeast --MOON PHASE: Waning Crescent (3.1%) >>> YOUR DAILY TERRESTRIALS <<< ZONE 1 - Northern Region  (Southern VT, Southwest NH)  --High Temps (Today): Mid to Upper 70s --Low Temps (Tonight): Mid to Upper 50s --High Temps (Tomorrow): Upper 50s to Mid 60s --Winds: Light southwesterly today veering to the north by tomorrow --Sky Cover: Partly to mostly sunny today first half of the day, then clouds build, and overcast skies dominate into Saturday --Precipitation:  Dry for most of the day, with a few showers late, then increasing showers and a thunderstorm later tonight and tomorrow, downpours possible --NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Patchy dense fog should lift soon ZONE 2 - Central Region  (Western MA, North-Central MA, Northern Litchfield CT) --High Temps (Today): Mid 70s to Low 80s --Low Temps (Tonight): Mid to Upper 50s --High Temps (Tomorrow): Low to Upper 60s --Winds: Light southwesterly today veering to the north by tomorrow --Sky Cover: Partly to mostly sunny today first half of the day, then clouds build, and overcast skies dominate into Saturday --Precipitation:  Dry for most of the day, with a few showers late, then increasing showers and a thunderstorm later tonight and tomorrow, downpours possible --NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Patchy dense fog should lift soon, especially in Franklin and northern Worcester Counties ZONE 3 - Southern Region  (South-Central MA, Northern CT)  --High Temps (Today): Low 80s --Low Temps (Tonight): Mid to Upper 50s --High Temps (Tomorrow): Mid to Upper 60s --Winds: Light southwesterly today veering to the north by tomorrow --Sky Cover: Partly to mostly sunny today first half of the day, then clouds build, and overcast skies dominate into Saturday --Precipitation:  Dry for most of the day, with a few showers late, then increasing showers and a thunderstorm later tonight and tomorrow, downpours possible --NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: None >>> MORNING DISCUSSION <<< Good morning everybody, we've got a lovely start to the day, although some patchy dense fog is noted at Orange, MA and Franklin County on north into parts of SVT and SWNH.  Elsewhere we're sunny to start with temps in the 50s to low 60s, which is a mild start and should allow us to rocket into the 70s to low 80s for highs today with sunshine lasting until about mid day to early afternoon when clouds will increase.  It should be noted that wildfire smoke will be building through the region today, but should do so aloft. Still, some areas (especially elevated ones) may notice a faint smell of smoke, and all of us should notice hazy skies because of it.  The clouds are due to an incoming low pressure system that will wind up, cutoff, and track east toward the northern Mid-Atlantic region, staying south of New England on Saturday.  This will push some scattered showers and a thunderstorm or two into the WMass region this evening and overnight, with increasing shower coverage into Saturday morning and afternoon as the low approaches.  Rain will fall heavily at times, and anywhere from half an inch to one and a half inches of rain is expected by midnight heading into Sunday morning.  It will also be quite cool Saturday with onshore flow and an east, northeast and northerly wind - highs will only be in the 60s tomorrow, and some folks north of the MA line may hang in the upper 50s!! This are anomalously cool temperatures for mid-June!  Showers wind down Saturday night, and will lead into our weekend pick, which is Sunday.  To be honest, that's not saying too much as we should be dealing with mostly cloudy skies Sunday with some afternoon showers and highs either side of 70º, but we should see less rain and slightly warmer temps on Sunday as compared to Saturday.  Lows will be in the 50s over the next few nights, through the weekend.  By early next week, we'll be dealing with remnants of a decaying upper low that will produce afternoon instability showers and partly sunny skies with highs in the low 70s.  If we're fortunate, fair weather will build into the region as a Rex Block tries to set up, which forces the trough south of us, along with a ridge in the northeast U.S. This would produce sunnier and warmer weather, yes, but also could redirect ground smoke into the region, which would be a bummer, but I will keep you updated as we get closer! Have a great day!  >>> BE KIND <<< “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