>>>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 <<< --Misty this morning in spots, patchy dense fog as well, notably in CMass --Another trough moves through with more scattered showers/storms from mid afternoon into the evening --Some folks could see strong gusty wind, with torrential rain and frequent lightning being the main threats --Watch for street flooding potential... strongest impacts along/south of the Pike the way it looks now --Rinse and repeat for the 4th of July, though impact are earlier, more like late morning into dinner time --Wednesday and Thursday look hotter, continued very humid and sunnier --Friday and through Sunday look like typical summer weather that features humid air masses, with chance for scattered afternoon showers, downpours or thunderstorms each day, 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 <<< --None, but scattered strong to severe t-storms possible this afternoon, mainly along and south of the Pike in MA and CT >>> YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS <<< STAR: --OUR STAR ROSE AT: 5:19am this morning --OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 8:29pm this evening --TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 15 hours and 10 minutes MOON: --OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 9:22pm tonight --MOON RISE DIRECTION: Southeast --OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 6:09am tomorrow morning --MOON SET DIRECTION: Southwest --MOON PHASE: Waning Gibbous (99.8%) >>> YOUR DAILY TERRESTRIALS <<< ZONE 1 - Northern Region  (Southern VT, Southwest NH)  --High Temps (Today): Upper 70s to Low 80s --Low Temps (Tonight): Mid 60s --High Temps (Tomorrow): Upper 70s to Low 80s --Winds: Light wind except gusty in any strong thunderstorms that may/may not pass thru --Sky Cover: Mostly cloudy through tomorrow --Precipitation: Showers this morning lead to a misty lull, then more showers/storms afternoon/eve... another round of scattered showers/storms tomorrow afternoon, some with strong gusty winds --NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Very humid air mass ZONE 2 - Central Region  (Western MA, North-Central MA, Northern Litchfield CT) --High Temps (Today): Low to Mid 80s --Low Temps (Tonight): Mid to Upper 60s --High Temps (Tomorrow): Low to Mid 80s --Winds: Light wind except gusty in any strong thunderstorms that may/may not pass thru --Sky Cover: Mostly cloudy through tomorrow --Precipitation: After overnight rain we get a misty lull, then more showers/storms afternoon/eve... another round of scattered showers/storms tomorrow afternoon, some with strong gusty winds --NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Very humid air mass ZONE 3 - Southern Region  (South-Central MA, Northern CT)  --High Temps (Today): Low to Mid 80s --Low Temps (Tonight): Upper 60s --High Temps (Tomorrow): Low to Mid 80s --Winds: Light wind except gusty in any strong thunderstorms that may/may not pass thru --Sky Cover: Mostly cloudy through tomorrow --Precipitation: Showers this morning lead to a misty lull, then more showers/storms afternoon/eve... another round of scattered showers/storms tomorrow afternoon, some with strong gusty winds --NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Very humid air mass >>> MORNING DISCUSSION <<< Good morning everybody, I don't want to be a soup ingredient anymore! Make it stahp! Ahh well, I'm afraid it won't be stopping any time soon in terms of the humidity, we're just in that flow now, and these upper troughs to our west that migrate east into New England keep reinforcing that southerly and southwesterly flow of warm and humid air into the region. For today, we're misting out this morning, along with seeing patchy dense fog. While the fog will lift as temps come up off of the dewpoints, mist may persist for a bit. Morning showers over southern VT into northern southwest NH should abate, and then we enter a lull into the early afternoon with a spot shower possible. By mid afternoon into the evening, a wave will approach the region that will help tap copious moisture and instability in place, along with a modest amount of wind shear to generate scattered showers, downpours, and thunderstorms, some of which may be strong to severe, especially along and south of the MA Pike. Strong gusty winds, torrential rain, and frequent lightning are the main concerns, with hail much less of one. Highs reach the upper 70s to mid 80s today under mostly cloudy skies, with lows in the 65-70º with scattered showers/storms on the earlier side. For the 4th of July, it's a similar setup, although the timing is a bit earlier in the day, so instead of roughly 3-9pm today, it is more like Noon-7pm tomorrow, maybe even a little earlier than that, with highs also in the low to mid 80s with lows 65-70º. Anybody with outdoor plans the next couple of days need to be prepared to duck under cover or inside, and generally have a rain contingency, because it could dump rain. For Wednesday into Thursday, some brief high pressure moves into the region, and we'll heat up into the 85-90º range for highs with dewpoints near 70º, which could push heat indices into the mid 90s. Lows again will be in the mid 60s to low 70s, continued humid. By Friday into next weekend, we look to move into less of a stormy pattern, and more of a typical humid, instability pattern with very warm days, partly sunny skies, and generation of scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms with highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s, but I'll refine as we get closer. Have a great day, and over the next couple of days, keep an eye and ear to the western sky, and I will keep you updated. Take care! >>> 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