>>> YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS <<<
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:20am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 7:15pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 12 hours and 55 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT 10:58pm tonight
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Northeast
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 3:14pm tomorrow afternoon
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Northwest
–MOON PHASE: Waning Gibbous (55.2%)
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>>> DAVE’S WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL <<<
–Heat Advisories are up for the Pioneer Valley of WMass, CMass, much of northern CT, as well as southeast VT and southwest NH
–Hot and humid today through Friday, with highs upper 80s to low 90s today and Friday, and possibly low to mid 90s Thursday/tomorrrow
–Patchy fog in spots each morning, leading to mostly sunny skies
–Dry today but Thursday and Friday should feature isolated to scattered showers or even a few thunderstorms popping each afternoon
–The weekend looks more showery overall at times as a trough pushes into our region, with humid conditions remaining, but with with highs 80-85º Saturday and 75-80º Sunday
–This instability pattern may last into early next week as our slow-moving pattern continues
–Drier and cooler air is possible by middle of next week, at which point we may be concerned about Hurricane Lee which does have a low chance running up the western Atlantic and into New England, Nova Scotia or Newfoundland, 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.
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>>> MORNING DISCUSSION <<<
Good morning folks, we’re in a rinse and repeat pattern for the next several days as an upper ridge crests eastward and over New England sometime tomorrow/Thursday.
This will ensure that we’re reaching highs up and into the upper 80s to mid 90s over the next 3 days, with patchy fog possible each morning as lows only settle down into the mid 60s to low 70s, which is where dewpoints will be through the period.
This will ensure heat indices rise into the mid to upper 90s over the next few days, hence the Heat Advisory Hoistings (HAH!! Take that, cooler than average Summah!)
Thursday is definitely the peak of our late season heat wave, and as that upper ridge tracks through and east of our region, the lowering heights on the other side of that skyward-pointed pressure bulge aloft will allow for better instability to push in behind and produce isolated showers or thunderstorms Thursday and/or Friday afternoon.
As we move into the weekend, and upper trough sliding in behind this upper ridge out of the Great Lakes and towards New England will spread periods of showers into our region both days with lowering high temps and still humid conditions.
Highs will reach 80-85º on Saturday and 75-80º on Sunday with lows in the 60s.
By Sunday or Monday a cold front will be approaching the region, but it may not totally clear us out of humidity and shower potential.
In fact, we may require a secondary cold front by mid-week to push this muggy and at-times showery morass east of New England to really dry us out and cool us down by the middle of next week.
Thereafter it’s all eyes on Hurricane Lee, and I’ve already got first, second and third eyes on this storm and its potential to cause havoc in southern New England by late next week into the following weekend.
As I mentioned, the players (hurricane position east of the Bahamas, potential eastern U.S. upper trough, and building upper ridge in the western Atlantic) could come together and run this storm up into New England or Atlantic Canada, so anyone in those areas including most of my audience needs to stay tuned as more information comes and we head into the middle of the month.
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