WATCH FOR BLACK ICE PATCHES TONIGHT AND TOMORROW MORNING… COLD AND DRY WEATHER CONTINUES THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK… A NICE SATURDAY GIVES WAY TO A WINTRY MIX ON SUNDAY THAT MAY START AS ACCUMULATING LIGHT SNOW BEFORE CHANGING TO RAIN IN THE VALLEY…. ICING MAY BECOME A CONCERN IN THE BERKSHIRES, WESTERN HILLTOWNS, TACONICS, SVT, AND SWNH… MILD TASTE OF SPRING NEXT WEEK! (Tues. – 5:35pm – 3/5/19)
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A FEW SNOW SHOWER CHANCES THRU WED…
Good evening everybody, we’ve got a pair of cold fronts and associated energy moving through the region tonight, as well as tomorrow night. As such, we can’t rule out a few snow showers in the Taconics, Berkshires and SVT tonight.
Then, colder air aloft should swing through tomorrow, which will destabilize the atmosphere a bit despite the cold surface temps. This may produce some scattered snow showers to form tomorrow afternoon. With a dry surface, we’ll have to see how much of that activity reaches the ground, and how much remains suspended aloft, evaporating before it reaches the ground.
OTHERWISE COLD AND DRY THROUGH SAT…
For tonight, we should be partly cloudy with a few snow showers possible in the western high terrain. Lows should drop into the mid to upper single digits, with a few low teens in northern CT.
For Wednesday, we’ll endure the coldest core of what may be one of the final cold outbreaks across southern New England early in 2019.
West to northwest winds will gust to 30mph at times, and we should see partly to mostly sunny skies with highs in the upper teens to low/mid 20s, with some scattered snow showers possible.
It will be blustery and feel more like the middle of winter, so bundle up peeps!
For tomorrow night, expect lows to crash into the low to mid single digits as any snow showers dry up.
For Thursday and Thursday night we will see temps a few degrees milder, without the snow shower activity.
Friday and Saturday will start to turn milder as high pressure slides east-northeast of our region, putting us in a more southerly flow. Both days will be mostly sunny with highs in the upper 20s to mid 30s Friday, and low 30s to upper 30s Saturday with lows in the upper teens.
On Sunday, there are some signals that our storm system may track a little more southerly, but still northwest of our region. Still, the more southerly it tracks, the more prolonged a period of snow and ice could fall Sunday during the day before changing to rain in the valley and ice to rain in the high terrain.
Stay tuned for updates, as travel may be impacted in the highlands of our region Sunday and especially Sunday night before we turn milder by next week.
Hang in there, folks, a taste of Spring is coming!
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THE 411 FOR THE 413 AND BEYOND… ASIDE FROM A FEW SNOW SHOWERS TONIGHT IN THE HIGH TERRAIN WEST OF THE CT RIVER, WE’RE GENERALLY COLD AND DRY THROUGH FRIDAY… (6:05am Tues.)
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TODAY’S DATE: Tuesday, March 5, 2019
TERRESTRIAL:
HIGH AIR TEMPS: Highs should rise into the low 20s in the Berkshires/Taconics/Litchfields, western hilltowns, SVT/SWNH, and N. Worcester County, while we reach the mid to upper 20s for the Pioneer Valley floor down into northern CT and in S. Worcester County.
LOW AIR TEMPS: Lows should drop into the upper single digits region-wide
SKIES: Mostly sunny with some mixed clouds late with a cold frontal passage
WINDS: Light southwest wind becoming light northwest tonight
NWS ALERTS: None
CELESTIAL:
–OUR STAR WILL RISE AT: 6:19am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 5:44pm this evening
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 4:50pm this afternoon
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 6:37am tomorrow morning
–MOON PHASE: Waning Crescent
SUMMARY:
–Good morning people of the Golden West, we have generally tranquil weather for this week, hooray!
–Today will be mostly sunny and cold.
–Some scattered snow showers are possible tonight, mainly across the Taconics, southwest VT and the northern Berkshires. Many areas won’t see any snow.
–Wednesday and Thursday look tranquil, cold, mostly sunny, with highs in the low to mid 20s and lows in the single digits
–Friday looks mostly sunny with highs in the upper 20s to low 30s as high pressure from the middle of the week tracks east of our region
–This will set up a southwesterly flow for Saturday and highs in the low to mid 30s
–We still have to watch for a Clipper type system for Friday night into Saturday morning that may bring some light snow south of the Pike and into northern CT, but it may pass out to sea to our south
–Sunday into Monday is next widespread inclement weather day, with wintry precip changing to rain a good bet as a developing southeast U.S. ridge pushes our storm system to our northwest, putting us on the warm side of the storm
–Still, there could be some travel headaches in terms of slippery conditions for the high terrain west of I-91
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