TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Daily Celestials (Sun/Moon Data)
* Weekly Weather Nutshell
* Morning Discussion
* TIP: Scroll below for sections, or read all
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YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
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STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 7:10am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:18pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 8 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 4:40pm this afternoon
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Southwest
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 9:13am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Southeast
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent (0.5%)
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YOUR WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL
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–Mostly sunny early with increasing clouds
–Highs mid to upper 30s
–Cold front swings through this afternoon
–Clouds increase behind it, with scattered snow showers possible, especially west of the I-91 corridor
–A few isolated dustings/coatings possible, otherwise no accumulation
–West-northwest winds pick up and gust 20-30mph into tonight
–Lows in the upper teens to low 20s with wind chills in the high single digits to teens overnight
–Cold Thursday, sunny, highs upper 20s to mid 30s, lows in the low/mid 20s
–Friday through Sunday become milder as high pressure passes south of us
–Partly sunny on average, with highs in the mid to upper 40s and lows either side of the freezing mark
–Friday looks breezy as southwest flow initiates, bringing these milder temps
–Clouds increase Sunday afternoon or night, and consistent signals for a big east coast late-Autumn rainy nor’easter continue
–This one looks like another soaker, and may linger for up to 24 hours, with a brief change to snow possible at the end in southern VT and northwest MA
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning everybody, I hope you find the strength inside to keep moving forward despite any obstacles that may be in your path. I find that raising my eyebrows and looking at the world through a “raised-brow lens” can sometimes nudge my mood in the right direction if I’m down or struggling.

Before I forget, the Geminid meteor shower is peaking tonight, I believe, and if you click this link you’ll get some more information on this celestial event.

As for our weather, today’s BORECAST is brought to you by Dave Hayes The Sleepy Bear: you can always count on Dave to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz………….

In other news, we do have a cold front swinging through the western MA region today, but before that feature brings some clouds into the area we should enjoy a sunny first part of our Wednesday with highs reaching the mid to upper 30s.

The front will swing through, and that will initiate some changes including an increase in clouds, west-northwest winds gusting 20-30mph into tonight, and some scattered lake effect snow showers late this afternoon and into the early evening.

For tonight, snow showers eventually die down (some dustings are possible), and lows will crash into the upper teens to low 20s, but with wind gusts of 20-30mph, wind chill readings may briefly dive into the upper single digits to teens, so bundle up if you are out tonight, or up early tomorrow morning.

Massive high pressure over the center of the country continues to press east on Thursday, but will still be southwest of us encouraging a colder northwest flow, which will create highs that only reach the upper 20s to mid 30s, so a cold Thursday is on the way, albeit under sunny skies.

Thursday night will see lows drop into the low 20s, and by Friday our high pressure system is tracking south of us and passing east through our longitudinal position.

This should cause a wind shift to the southwest, and it likely becomes breezy on Friday as highs surge over 10 degrees into the mid 40s for highs under partly sunny skies, with lows near freezing.

A fair weather weekend is on tap with mild highs in the 40s, lows near freezing, and continued partly sunny skies on average.

However, clouds should increase later on Sunday, as a multi-component storm system looks to take shape and coalesce near southeast Georgia or South Carolina and track north-northeast up the eastern seaboard.

This is also known as a Miller A storm track, and if there was plenty of cold air around and a cold high pressure center to our north, we’d be talking about a MAJOR snowstorm for Monday, but alas, no such cold air source exists, so it is looking quite rainy to kick off our next work week, but I will update you on that we get closer, still many days away and things can change.

Have a great day and raise those ‘brows!

>>> 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