>>>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 <<< --Patchy dense fog this morning will evaporate with time --Air Quality Alerts are up due to smoke, with hazy skies at times (smoke is worst in the Berkshires, Litchfields, Taconics) --Mostly dry today and tomorrow, isolated shower or two is possible --Patchy fog possible again tomorrow morning --Mostly sunny today, partly sunny tomorrow, with clouds increasing late --Late Saturday night into Sunday humidity will build back into the region on the nose of a low level southwesterly jet --This provides lift, moisture and instability for scattered showers and thunderstorms Sunday and Monday, and a few might be strong to severe by Monday --4th of July could see some showers and storms too before dry out mid to late week with heat increase, and the potential to reach or exceed 90º, but before we talk details 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 <<< --Air Quality Alerts issued by State EPA Depts. for southern VT, WMass, CMass, and northern CT >>> YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS <<< STAR: --OUR STAR ROSE AT: 5:17am this morning --OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 8:30pm this evening --TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 15 hours and 13 minutes MOON: --OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 5:55pm this afternoon --MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast --OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 3:02am tomorrow morning --MOON SET DIRECTION: Southwest --MOON PHASE: Waxing Gibbous (87.9%) >>> YOUR DAILY TERRESTRIALS <<< ZONE 1 - Northern Region (Southern VT, Southwest NH) --High Temps (Today): Upper 70s to Low 80s --Low Temps (Tonight): Low 60s --High Temps (Tomorrow): Upper 70s to Low 80s --Winds: Light wind with southerly components through tomorrow --Sky Cover: Mostly sunny today, partly cloudy tonight with patchy fog, partly sunny tomorrow --Precipitation: Isolated showers possible or tomorrow, otherwise dry --NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Air Quality Alert for southern VT ZONE 2 - Central Region (Western MA, North-Central MA, Northern Litchfield CT) --High Temps (Today): Low to Mid 80s, a few upper 80s possible --Low Temps (Tonight): Low to Mid 60s --High Temps (Tomorrow): Low to Mid 80s --Winds: Light wind with southerly components through tomorrow --Sky Cover: Mostly sunny today, partly cloudy tonight with patchy fog, partly sunny tomorrow --Precipitation: Isolated showers possible or tomorrow, otherwise dry --NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Air Quality Alerts for WMass, northern CMass and northwest CT ZONE 3 - Southern Region (South-Central MA, Northern CT) --High Temps (Today): Low to Mid 80s --Low Temps (Tonight): Low to Mid 60s --High Temps (Tomorrow): Low to Mid 80s --Winds: Light wind with southerly components through tomorrow --Sky Cover: Mostly sunny today, partly cloudy tonight with patchy fog, partly sunny tomorrow --Precipitation: Isolated showers possible or tomorrow, otherwise dry --NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Air Quality Alerts for northern CT and southern CMass >>> MORNING DISCUSSION <<< Good morning everybody, we've got three periods/groupings of weather conditions on the horizon to move through. The first involves smoke, haze, and mostly dry and seasonable conditions, the second involves much more humid, showery, and at times thunderstorm-y conditions Sunday through Tuesday, followed lastly by drier but hotter conditions mid to late week. For today, patchy dense fog will burn off by mid morning-ish as temps come up off of the dewpoints, and we'll develop a mostly sunny day with highs in the 80s, so it will be quite warm. Unfortunately, folks with respiratory issues will need to take it easy, especially well west of the I-91 corridor where smoke will be most noticeable. A few isolated showers are possible, but should be light and quick if they form at all. For tonight, a partly cloudy sky develops along with patchy fog late with lows near 60º. Saturday represents our last day of fairly dry conditions, as well as wildfire smoke, and it may peak as the plume is set to be pushed east and out of here by an incoming moisture surge on Sunday as the air masses switch out. Highs will be in the upper 70s to mid 80s Saturday, and skies will be partly sunny on average, with clouds increasing later in the day. An isolated shower or two is also possible into the evening. Lows will dip into the low to mid 60s. By Sunday morning, humidity will already be on the increase as another upper level low ( #BrokenRecordWeather ) will drop into the Great Lakes and track east toward New England. This will spread moisture into the region, along with a stronger low level jet streak (i.e. a faster-moving river of air) which will aid in causing rising air over the region, which will combine with humidity, increase instability and wind shear, and help form scattered showers, downpours and some thunderstorms. Highs will be a little cooler, in the mid 70s to low 80s, due to cloud cover, and lows will only sit down into the mid to upper 60s. Monday is the best chance for strong to severe thunderstorms as the upper level low will be closer to our region, and the moisture will fully envelop our region. Highs will reach the low to mid 80s, and lows will drop to the mid to upper 60s for a pair of uncomfortable sleeping weather nights Sunday night and Monday night. Depending on timing, we may see a third day of unsettled weather on the 4th with some natural fireworks but that is less certain. What remains certain is the warm temps will stay in the 80s for as far as the eye can see at the moment. In fact, by mid to late next week, after our upper low gets its butt out of the region, high pressure to our south and upper level ridging may combine to produce strong southwest flow and invigorate the heat pump, pushing high temps into the mid 80s to low 90s by end of next week! Summah is continuing to develop into the region, and summah lovahs will be rejoicing by next Thursday or Friday I would imagine! Thanks very much and 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