THREE WEATHER IMPACTS OF NOTE THROUGH LATE NEXT WEEK… (7pm Friday)
Good evening everybody, for the daily details, just scroll down to this morning’s post. This post is meant to highlight the main impacts we can expect over the next week from our weather.
For tonight, some black ice is possible, so be alert to that after we drop below freezing as the night wears on.
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ICING SUNDAY MORNING
Our storm system will rip northeast into the Great Lakes, but with cold air remaining, we will see sleet and freezing rain move into the region by midnight tomorrow night. Some snow may be mixed in as well.
Then we should transition to all freezing rain during the pre-dawn hours of Sunday morning, with up to a tenth to two-tenths of an inch of ice accretion on surfaces.
Most of us will change to plain rain by mid to late morning on Sunday, but the western hilltowns, Berkshires, SVT, northernmost Worcester County and up into SWNH may ice until mid or even late morning causing slippery travel conditions. Then, Sunday becomes a rainy day with highs in the mid to upper 30s in the high terrain and low 40s in the valley. A raw day to be sure.
HIGH WIND GUSTS MONDAY AFTERNOON
As our storm pulls away, it will bomb out over Atlantic Canada and deepen rapidly. High pressure will be moving in quickly behind it, and that pressure gradient should prompt the hoisting (hoisting, I say!) of Wind Advisories region-wide, along with some High Wind Warnings possible in the Berkshires and high terrain areas winds gusting 40-55mph at times out of the west-northwest. This will last into Monday night.
LIGHT ACCUMULATING SNOW POSSIBLE WED.
Then, we have a Clipper type low tracking along the southern edge of cold Canadian air, that should pass south of New England. This would provide a period of light snow that may accumulate a couple of inches, but I will refine that as we get closer.
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FAIR WEATHER FOR THE NEXT TWO DAYS… BLACK ICE THIS MORNING AND TOMORROW MORNING…MIXED PRECIP LATE TOMORROW NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING TURNS TO PLAIN RAIN BY MID/LATE MORNING… COLD AND FAIR EARLY NEXT WEEK, LIGHT SNOW POSSIBLE MID WEEK, AND A LARGER STORM THREAT EXISTS FOR NEXT WEEKEND… (6:20am Fri)
TODAY’S DATE: Friday, February 22, 2019
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TERRESTRIAL:
HIGH AIR TEMPS: Highs should rise into the mid 30s in the Berkshires/Taconics/Litchfields, western hilltowns, SVT/SWNH, and N. Worcester County, while we reach the upper 30s to 40 degrees for the Pioneer Valley floor down into northern CT and in S. Worcester County.
LOW AIR TEMPS: Lows should drop into the low 20s region-wide
SKIES: Mostly sunny on average
WINDS: Northwest breezes slacken over the valley, but will still gust to 20mph in the Berkshires and hilltowns
NWS ALERTS: None
CELESTIAL:
–OUR STAR WILL RISE AT: 6:36am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 5:31pm this evening
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 9:23pm this evening
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 9:09am tomorrow morning
–MOON PHASE: Waning Gibbous
SUMMARY:
–Good morning everybody, watch for black ice patches early this morning
–High pressure will dominate our sensible weather over the next couple of days
–Mostly sunny and a bit above average for temperatures today
–Breezy conditions expected in the high terrain, slackening in the valley
–Tonight, we all see the winds die down with a cold night ahead under mostly clear skies and lows near 20 degrees
–For Saturday, high pressure moves overhead and tracks east of our region
–Expect mostly sunny skies and highs near 40 degrees, a bit cooler in the high terrain
–Saturday night clouds build, and snow, sleet and freezing rain looks to now break out before midnight
–Given an onset at night and lows in the upper 30s, icing may last into mid morning on Sunday, especially in the high terrain
–A coating up to an inch of snow and sleet is expected, along with up to a quarter inch of ice accretion from freezing rain by Sunday morning
–This storm will drop over an inch of liquid water equivalent
–South winds take over by late morning on Sunday with a change to plain rain that lasts throughout the day on Sunday. Highs should crest 40 degrees
–Showers on Sunday may end as snow before quitting with lows in the low 30s
–A colder pattern takes over early next week, and there is a concern of a very strong wind event with rapidly deepening low pressure departing Monday and high pressure moving into the region
–Wind gusts could exceed 50mph and perhaps even 60mph out of the west, which could cause outages and tree damage
–Highs Monday and Tuesday will be in the low 30s with lows in the teens as Winter flexes again
–Light accumulating snow is possible by Wednesday as low pressure may slide west to east, to our south with colder air to the north.
–it’s a land-based system that won’t have a ton of moisture
–Cold weather continues late week and then we watch to see if a lobe of Arctic air combines with energy rotating around its southern base to form a coastal snowstorm for our region.
–It’s a looooooong way off, so take it with a grain of salt. Have a great day!
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