>>>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 <<< --Mostly sunny, hot and humid the next 3 days, with a marginal heat wave possible for a few towns --Low chance of an isolated shower or thunderstorm each day, especially Thursday or Friday, but most are dry --Saturday gets a bit cloudier with more scattered showers as another trough approaches --Sunday through Tuesday look more unsettled, with a legit rainstorm possible Monday with warm temps and a humid air mass, 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 patchy dense fog is present which will burn off by mid morning >>> YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS <<< STAR: --OUR STAR ROSE AT: 5:20am this morning --OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 8:29pm this evening --TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 15 hours and 9 minutes MOON: --OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 10:48pm tonight --MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast --OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 8:53am tomorrow morning --MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Southwest --MOON PHASE: Waning Gibbous (94.1%) >>> YOUR DAILY TERRESTRIALS <<< ZONE 1 - Northern Region  (Southern VT, Southwest NH)  --High Temps (Today): Mid to Upper 80s --Low Temps (Tonight): Mid 60s --High Temps (Tomorrow): Upper 80s to Low 90s --Winds: Light and Variable --Sky Cover: Mostly sunny today, partly cloudy tonight, mostly sunny tomorrow --Precipitation: Isolated shower or storm possible today or tomorrow --NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Patchy dense fog burn off later, humid ZONE 2 - Central Region  (Western MA, North-Central MA, Northern Litchfield CT) --High Temps (Today): Upper 80s to Low 90s --Low Temps (Tonight): Mid to Upper 60s --High Temps (Tomorrow): Upper 80s to Low 90s --Winds: Light and Variable --Sky Cover: Mostly sunny today, partly cloudy tonight, mostly sunny tomorrow --Precipitation: Isolated shower or storm possible today or tomorrow --NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Patchy dense fog burn off later, humid ZONE 3 - Southern Region  (South-Central MA, Northern CT)  --High Temps (Today): Upper 80s to Low 90s --Low Temps (Tonight): Upper 60s --High Temps (Tomorrow): Upper 80s to Low 90s --Winds: Light and Variable --Sky Cover: Mostly sunny today, partly cloudy tonight, mostly sunny tomorrow --Precipitation: Isolated shower or storm possible today or tomorrow --NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Patchy dense fog burn off later, humid >>> MORNING DISCUSSION <<< Good morning everybody, we finally have some upper level ridging moving into the region (a ridge just an upper part of our atmosphere that contains higher pressures than average, and generally fosters sinking air which contributes to warmer temps and sunnier skies). After patchy dense fog burns off we should see mostly sunny skies develop with cumulus clouds dotting the afternoon sky with highs in the mid 80s to low 90s, along with a light and variable wind. If we're lucky, humidity will lessen a touch today as we have much drier air aloft and some of that should mix down to the surface. For tonight, temps will only bottom out into the 65-70º range and humidity will slowly increase under partly cloudy skies. For Thursday, an upper level system will start to approach the Great Lakes and Midwest regions. With increased humidity we may see a few more isolated showers or thunderstorms pop in the afternoon, though for now with weak wind flow expected, this should happen more over the high terrain areas, though a few could drift into the valley. Still most folks should be dry, hot and humid with highs in the upper 80s to low 90s and dewpoints either side of 70º. Lows will be either side of 70º, very uncomfortable with humid air in place. Friday and Friday night represents a rinse and repeat day of Thursday's weather, with similar expectations and conditions. It is Saturday that becomes the transition day with partly sunny skies expected, but increased cloudiness from this late week period, and more chances for scattered showers and thunderstorms into the night, with highs in the 80s. Sunday through Tuesday looks to feature another unsettled period as moisture fluxes into the region producing very humid conditions along with an upper low that tracks east into this air mass while sending several impulses around its southern base and into New England. This will increase shower and thunderstorm chances with flash flooding possible, and possibly even a period of widespread rain sometime on Monday depending on how things shake out. Stay tuned and I will keep you updated to the best my ability, 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