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: 7:08am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 6:01pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 10 hours and 53 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 9:59pm tonight
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Southwest
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 2:23pm tomorrow afternoon
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Southeast
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent (31.7%)
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ZONE FORECAST SUMMARIES
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ZONE 1 – Northern Region
(Southern VT, Southwest NH)
–High Temps (Today): Upper 50s to Low 60s
–Low Temps (Tonight): Upper 40s to Low 50s
–High Temps (Tomorrow): Mid to Upper 50s
–Winds: Light southerly switching to southeast gusts 10-20mph today/tonight, west to northwest gusts 25-45mph by tomorrow night
–Sky Cover: Overcast
–Precipitation: Showers move in by late morning, rain falls heavily at times today/tonight, Saturday scattered showers quit by evening, before midnight
–NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Sunday morning looks windy
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 50s
–High Temps (Tomorrow): Upper 50s to Low 60s
–Winds: Light southerly switching to southeast gusts 10-20mph today/tonight, west to northwest gusts 25-45mph by tomorrow night
–Sky Cover: Overcast
–Precipitation: Showers move in by late morning, rain falls heavily at times today/tonight, Saturday scattered showers quit by evening, before midnight
–NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Eastern Berkshires and westerrn hilltowns could see 1-3″ of rain as southeast winds enhance rainfall today/tonight… Sunday morning looks windy
ZONE 3 – Southern Region
(South-Central MA, Northern CT)
–High Temps (Today): Low to Mid 60s
–Low Temps (Tonight): Mid 50s
–High Temps (Tomorrow): Low 60s
–Winds: Light southerly switching to southeast gusts 10-20mph today/tonight, west to northwest gusts 25-45mph by tomorrow night
–Sky Cover: Overcast
–Precipitation: Showers move in by late morning, rain falls heavily at times today/tonight, Saturday scattered showers quit by evening, before midnight
–NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Sunday morning looks windy
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YOUR WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL
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–Dry this early morning with some patchy fog
–Fog burns off as temps come up to the upper 50s to mid 60s for high temps, and showers arrive by mid to late morning
–Rain should fall heavily at times this afternoon, thunder possible
–Periods of showers this afternoon and tonight combining with southeast wind gusts of 10-20mph, lows in the 50s tonight
–Southeasterly flow enhances rain totals along the western hilltowns and Berkshires and northwest CT where 1-3″ should fall
–Saturday lull looks likely in the morning, then a final period of rain/showers by afternoon into the early evening before the storm lifts northeast through our region
–West to northwest wind gusts of 25-45mph pick up Saturday night into Sunday as the storm pulls away and high pressure moves in, creating a stronger pressure gradient
–Sunday should be gusty at times, partly sunny to mostly cloudy, highs mid 40s to mid 50s, with a few afternoon showers
–Lows mid 30s to low 40s Sunday night with isolated frost
–Fair weather expected next week with highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s Monday, and lows low to mid 30s with patchy frost by Tuesday morning, not as widespread as earlier throught
–Tuesday through Friday looks The Mildening will be taking place with highs increasing through the week with partly to mostly sunny skies, 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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A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning everybody, we’ve got some dynamic weather coming our way today, tomorrow and Sunday, so gear up, grab the galoshes, and get ready for seesaw weather through next week.
For today, we’ve got plenty of juice to our south coming north, and first showers should arrive for some of us (especially in WMass) by 9am or so through the mid-day.
Showers are expected to become more numerous this afternoon as our upper low digging into the Ohio Valley continues to tilt negatively and sweep more moisture up from the western Atlantic and tossing it into our region with southeasterly flow and wind gusts of 10-20mph developing, so it should be a bit breezy later.
Highs will reach the upper 50s to mid 60s and it will be quite humid indeed.
In fact, as a low level jet streak lifts toward the region this afternoon and evening, we could see some heavy downpours and even some thunder!
Showers, heavy at times, continue tonight with lows only in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
Sometime by very early Saturday morning we could see a lull in the action, with a few light showers possible during that time.
As the upper low digs toward the coast and spawns a secondary coastal low pressure system off o the NJ coast by Saturday morning, it will track northeast through eastern New England into the afternoon and spread another period of rain into the greater WMass region during Saturday afternoon the way it looks now, with highs in the 50s to low 60s.
All rain should quit after sunset and before midnight, and west to northwest wind gusts will commence as out storm bombs out over the Gulf of Maine into Atlantic Canada, set to become a sub-980 millibar low over Nova Scotia which is powerful!
This will cause northwest wind gusts of 25-45mph to develop Saturday night into Sunday, with highest gusts at elevation.
Highs Sunday should only make it up into the mid 40s to mid 50s for a truly Autumnal day, with some afternoon showers possible, that will quit before they can change to snow in the high terrain overnight.
Lows will drop into the mid 30s to low 40s with isolated frost possible, and after a cool Monday with partly sunny skies and highs in the upper 40s to upper 50s, we’ll see our lowest temps this nascent Fall season with lows in the low to mid 30s widespread with patchy frost.
After that, The Mildening commences!
High pressure will build east into our region, and the core of it will track south of us, putting us on the warmer side of the high.
This means that Tuesday through at least Thursday looks lovely with mostly sunny skies and highs increasing into the 60s by mid to late week with lows in the 40s.
By Friday or Saturday a cold front may be swinging into the region with more showers, and a true cold shot looks possible by early November, but that’s putting the cart before the horse.
I will update by late afternoon today as our storm system moves in and brings the rain and wind. Have a great day!
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