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: 6:42am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 7:09pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 12 hours and 27 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 8:45pm this eve
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 7:33am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Southwest
–MOON PHASE: Waning Gibbous (98.8%)
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YOUR WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL
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–Mostly cloudy skies today with morning temps in the 30s with some upper 20s in SVT and far northwest MA
–Highs will only climb into the upper 30s to low 40s
–Onshore flow from a high center northeast of us and a low center well south of Nantucket keeps the clouds coming
–Later today and especially tonight, we’ll see patches of drizzle, or fog or even some light showers retrograding off the ocean
–This activity will be most pronounced over CMass and northeast CT
–Lows will dip into the low to mid 30s, and some light freezing rain / icing is possible in the Worcester highlands and high terrain of southwest NH, and possibly in some WMass hilltowns either side of the CT River
–This light drizzle/shower activity should weaken later Wednesday morning as a frontal boundary approaches from the west, inducing more southerly flow
–Highs Wednesday should come up as a result, cresting into the low to mid 50s with a few showers possible
–It’s the later Wednesday night into Thursday / Thursday night period where the steadiest rainfall should arrive, especially east of the I-91 corridor
–We’ll see low pressure develop off of North Carolina and track south of Nantucket, but interact with a frontal boundary from a storm tracking northeast through the Great Lakes
–This will develop and strengthen a plume of rainfall into New England, with lighter rains west and heavier rains east
–So, expect a rainy day Thursday and Thursday night with highs in the mid 40s to low 50s with lows in the 30s
–Friday should feature a few morning showers, but a front will be clearing the region, and temps will come down into the low to mid 40s for highs with lows in the upper 20s to low 30s
–It will become blustery Friday night into Saturday with northwest winds gusting 20-30mph at times
–The weekend looks lovely, fair and seasonable with highs 45-50º under mostly sunny skies and lows in the 30s, breezier on Saturday as compared to Sunday, with fair weather early next week
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning everybody, the Nutshell above covers the salient weather points for today, but the bottom line is we can expect unsettled weather beginning tonight through early Friday morning with periods of drizzle, showers and fog tonight into Wednesday morning, with isolated light icing tonight.
Beyond that, late Wednesday night, into Thursday and Thursday night looks quite rainy, especially east of the I-91 corridor with 1-2″ of rain possible there and under an inch west of the valley.
We’ll watch a front clear the region by Friday afternoon, and fair weather will move in behind it through the weekend and into early next week, but not before a blustery / gusty period Friday night through Saturday.
Have a great day!
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