[7:27AM MON 12/9/24] WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES HAVE BEEEN HOISTED FOR ICING LATRE TODAY/TONIGHT IN NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY, WESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY, NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY, SOUTHERN VT AND SOUTHWEST NH… DRIZZLY/CLOUODY TUESDAY WITH A FEW SHOWERS… SOAKING RAINFALL WEDNESDAY AND WEDNSEDAY NIGHT WITH STRONG WIND ALONG/EAST OF THE CT RIVER, QUICK CHANGE TO BERKSHIRE SNOW POSSIBLE… BLUSTERY AND COOLER LATE WEEK… SATURDAY LOOKING DRIER, SUNDAY SHOWERY… DAVE’S FINAL LIMITED SUPPLY OF 2025 WEATHER CALENDARS ARE MOVING STEADILY… GRAB 1 OR 2 BEFORE THEY’RE GONE…
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Daily Celestials (Sun/Moon Data)
* Sponsor Note
* 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: 7:07am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:18pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 11 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 12:41pm this afternoon
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 1:43am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Gibbous (59.9%)
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A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning folks, if you have any sunrise pics I’d love to see them! As for our weather today, clouds be on the increase as a warm front approaches the region and a such we’ll see rain showers arrive early to mid-afternoon with highs reaching the upper 30s to mid 40s.
As a secondary low develops along this front, high pressure will be positioned to our northeast and help drain cooler surface air down into southern VT and NH, bleeding into northernmost MA in the high elevations.
As our rain continues to fill into the greater WMass region, some elevated areas in northern MA, SVT and SWNH will see periods of snow, sleet and/or freezing rain, especially by this evening, and a coating to an inch of snow/sleet along with ice glaze is expected for some of these areas. Localized pockets of 1-3” of snow in northern Cheshire County NH or the higher peaks of the southern Greens of VT is possible.
We’ll see about a third to half an inch of liquid precip, and lows will dip to the low to mid 30s, as the front lifts northeast of us.
Behind it for Tuesday is a mostly cloudy, drizzly at times day with a few isolated showers, and highs in the 40s, with patchy fog possible – kinda dreary, really.
As we head into Tuesday night a giant upper trough will swing east along the U.S./Canadian border drawing a deepening coastal low pressure system up through the Mid-Atlantic, set to run right over the western MA region Wednesday.
This will spread rain, heavy at times through our region for Wednesday and Wednesday night, and street flooding is expected in spots.
Highs will climb well into the 50s, and this will help mix down strong southerly wind, especially east of the I-91 corridor, where winds could gust up to 50mph or so, causing some isolated outages and a wind-driven rain.
At the same time as low pressure is running up through southwest New England, cold air will be collapsing eastward into the Berkshires and southwest VT, and could flip to snow there late Wednesday night with fresh coatings before dawn on Thursday!
The storm rips northward, and then behind it westerlies will gust 20-35mph at times with colder air moving in, with highs in the 30s under mostly sunny skies, with lows diving into the teens.
It’ll be even colder Friday with sunshine and highs in the upper 20s to mid 30s. The weekend looks split at the moment, drier for Saturday, showery potentially for Sunday, and cool with highs in the 30s to near 40º but I will refine this as we get closer.
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