TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Celestials (Sun/Moon Info)
* Zone Forecasts
* Weekly Nutshell
* Morning Discussion
* Scroll below for your sections, or read all
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YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
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STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 7:06am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 6:04pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 10 hours and 58 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 8:07pm this evening
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Southwest
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 12:30pm tomorrow afternoon
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Southeast
–MOON PHASE: Waning Crescent (13.8%)
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ZONE FORECAST SUMMARIES
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ZONE 1 – Northern Region
(Southern VT, Southwest NH)
–High Temps (Today): Mid 50s to Low 60s
–Low Temps (Tonight): Upper 30s to Low 40s
–High Temps (Tomorrow): Upper 50s to Mid 60s
–Winds: Light southwest winds, light and variable tonight/tomorrow
–Sky Cover: Partly sunny today, partly cloudy tonight, mostly sunny tomorrow
–Precipitation: A sprinkle possible, otherwise dry
–NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: None
ZONE 2 – Central Region
(Western MA, North-Central MA, Northern Litchfield CT)
–High Temps (Today): Low to Mid 60s
–Low Temps (Tonight): Low to Mid 40s
–High Temps (Tomorrow): Low to Upper 60s
–Winds: Light southwest winds, light and variable tonight/tomorrow
–Sky Cover: Partly sunny today, partly cloudy tonight, mostly sunny tomorrow
–Precipitation: A sprinkle possible, otherwise dry
–NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: None
ZONE 3 – Southern Region
(South-Central MA, Northern CT)
–High Temps (Today): Low to Mid 60s
–Low Temps (Tonight): Mid 40s
–High Temps (Tomorrow): Mid to Upper 60s
–Winds: Light southwest winds, light and variable tonight/tomorrow
–Sky Cover: Partly sunny today, partly cloudy tonight, mostly sunny tomorrow
–Precipitation: A few showers possible, otherwise mostly dry
–NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: None
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YOUR WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL
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–High pressure builds into a departing upper level system
–This brings partly sunny skies on average with an isolated shower or two later, highs mid 50s to low 60s
–Lows generally 40-45º tonight, partly cloudy, light wind
–Highs tomorrow under mostly sunny skies well into the 60s, pick of the week with lows in the 40s as clouds increase
–First showers arrive Friday, a few in the morning, but mostly afternoon and evening, highs 60s, increasing humidity, lows low 50s
–Saturday looks like periods of rain across the region as a storm rides northeast into eastern New England, highs 60s, humid
–Showers decrease at some point at night as the progressive storm continues into Maine and New Brunswick, Canada
–Sunday becomes windy with gusts of 25-45mph out of the northwest, partly sunny with some instability showers possible
–Highs Sunday only in the upper 40s to upper 50s, with lows in the 35-40º range, patchy frost possible
–Some scattered snow showers are possible in the Berkshires, western hilltowns, and southern VT by early Monday morning
–Cool on Monday with highs in the mid 40s to low 50s
–FIRST WIDESPREAD FROST likely Monday night into Tuesday morning with lows upper 20s to mid 30s, with milder temps later next week, 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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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning everybody, our old-and-in-the way upper low departs east today, but leaves us with some parting clouds and a few spot showers mainly south of the Pike as we say goodbye to each other.
Highs will reach the mid 50s to low 60s with a light and variable wind, and lows tonight will dip into the upper 30s to mid 40s under partly cloudy skies.
Tomorrow is definitely the pick of the week with highs well into the 60s under mostly sunny skies with light south wind.
Clouds will start to gather Thursday night with lows in the 40s, and then we’ll be looking to our west as several atmospheric players team up to produce a wet and windy weekend across the greater WMass region, with a showery Friday appetizer to kick off all the impending weekend fun!
By Friday, we’ll be watching a primary already-formed storm system tracking east into the Great Lakes region with an associated deepening, large upper low and trough which will extend from the Great Lakes down into the central Appalachians.
The surface low is a more compact feature, whereas the upper trough is a very large area of lower-than-average pressure aloft a few miles above our heads.
This trough will be sweeping from a positive to neutral to negative tilt, or axis orientation, and when that happens near the east coast, you tend to get secondary surface lows that are spawned anywhere from the Carolinas up to the northern Mid-Atlantic, and this one will get going near the southern Mid-Atlantic coastline and track northeast into New England Saturday.
Ahead of this development, we’ll get the warm frontal showers to start things off with a few showers Friday morning, but more numerous showers will develop by Friday afternoon and night.
Friday highs will be in the 60s and humidity will be increasing and lows will only sit down into the low 50s.
The bulk of the system moves through Saturday and shuts off sometime Saturday evening or night, with rain expected, heavy at times. There might be lulls mixed in, and it may present in a showery fashion, but I will try to refine that as we get closer.
Highs on Saturday will be in the 60s, and lows will be in the 40s as our progressive, deepening storm keeps on truckin’ northeast into Maine and southeast Canada.
By Sunday, our storm is STILL getting cranked up, while high pressure moves in from the west, creating a pressure gradient and gusty northwest winds of 25-45mph at times. Skies will be partly sunny with a few showers possible, and highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
Lows will drop into the mid 30s to low 40s, and some patchy frost will be possible, in addition to first snow showers for some folks in southern VT and the Berkshires!
Monday is COOL with highs only in the mid 40s to low 50s, and then our first widespread frost is looking increasingly likely with lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s, so #PlantPeople: you have been warned!
High pressure will build through the region Tuesday through Thursday with fair weather expected next week and high temps increasing by late week.
Have a great day!
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