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: 6:46am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 5:22pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 10 hours and 36 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 9:43am this morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Northeast
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 12:44am tonight
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Northwest
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent (37.8%)
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YOUR WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL
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–Sunny start for our Thursday with highs rising to the low to mid 30s with clouds increasing during the afternoon
–Clouds thicken toward evening, and snow arrives between 7pm-9pm from Berkshires to CMass
–A 3-4 hour burst of snow will fall light to moderately with occasional heavy bursts, especially up near the Route 2 corridor of WMass and in SVT
–Our Clipper low whips through, with additional upslope snow showers expected in the epre-dawn hours for the Berkshires, western hilltowns and SVT into SWNH
–Overall a coating to 2″ of snow for most of us (lighest south of the Pike), with a probable 2-5″ area in the high terrain of the northern Berkshires, western Franklin, northwestern Hampshire Counties of MA and SVT into northern parts of SWNH where best lift and dynamics will be
–Lows in the mid 20s tonight
–The storm is gone dawn on Friday, but westerly winds will gust starting before dawn and last all day, reaching peak gusts of 30-50mph, with some outages possible
–Partly sunny Friday with highs low to mid 30s, and lows in the low 20s
–Wind chills on Friday will be in the 20s so bundle up
–Saturday likely sees a second small storm pass to our south
–Scattered snow showers are expected, and some areas in southern MA and northern CT south of the Pike could see snow coatings but this storm looks to be largely a miss at the moment but stay tuned for updates (either way it’s a minor to non event)
–Highs will reach the upper 20s to mid 30s, with lows in the teens
–Southwest flow develops on Sunday, but not soon enough to lift temps much past the freezing mark for highs with partly sunny skies as high pressure builds in (it also looks breezy)
–A ridge develops early to mid next week in the east with fair weather and highs in the 30s, and eventually into the low 40s by Wednesday
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning everybody, I am under the weather this morning, so the Nutshell is going to have to suffice.

I will say that the 3-4 hour burst of accumulating snow between 7pm and Midnight tonight could cause roads to become slick pretty quickly so if you are out and about when the snow moves in, it may burst moderate to heavy for a time, especially north of the Pike.

If you’re in the Berkshires, SVT or western hilltowns, some additional light accumulations will lay down after midnight where upslope snow showers blow through on strong developing westerly gusts that will last into Friday, and gust to speeds of 30-50mph, with possibly a few in the 50-60mph range.

This will cause some isolated power outages due to wind speed, but not tonight’s snow.

Have a great day, and I will update again later this afternoon before our little Clipper low swings its snow through our region.

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