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: 7:16am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:23pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 7 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 11:59am this morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 1:08am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East
–MOON PHASE: Waning Crescent (44.9%)
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A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning folks, it is truly frigid out there this morning! You know it’s cold when the Maine Coon Cat recoils from the open door after “thinking” it wants to go out. Nope!
We’ve got an Arctic high pressure cell (1038mb for the nerds at home) right over New England this morning, which helped to efficiently radiate any “heat” out to Space, dropping lows into the single digits below zero and above zero, depending on where you are in the greater WMass region.
Temps will “rise” up into the low to mid 20s for most of us under mostly sunny skies, with some upper teens hanging around southern VT.
High clouds will build in later this afternoon ahead of our Clipper system that will dive southeast through New England overnight and tomorrow morning.
Lows tonight will dip into the mid to upper teens, with snow showers developing as the system’s warm front sticks its snowy finger through our region between about 9pm-1am for an initial round of light snow showers, especially along and north of the Rt. 2 Corridor in northern MA.
Then between about 4am-10am the low center’s cold front will drag through and that will be the steadier area of light accumulating snow that moves through, which will produce a pretty scene for Christmas Eve Morning, which is a term I just made up and doesn’t exist.
Most of us should see between a coating to 2”, but areas in the central/northern Berkshires, western Hampshire/Franklin Counties up into SVT should see more like 2-4” of fluffy snow.
By mid-day the storm is trucking on to our east, and we could see skies brighten by afternoon with highs in the low to mid 30s and lows in the teens, so the snow should stick around through Christmas Eve and Day giving us the first white Christmas we’ve had in quite a while, best I can remember.
Christmas Eve lows are in the teens under partly cloudy skies, so bundle up and watch for slick spots, especially in the high terrain.
Christmas Day looks lovely with highs in the upper 20s to mid 30s under mostly sunny skies with lows in the teens for Christmas Night.
Thursday through Saturday should feature milder temps as an upper ridge builds into the northeast U.S. with highs mainly well into 30s during the period, and possibly reaching the low 40s by Saturday, all under mostly sunny skies. Lows will be in the teens to 20s.
By Sunday, another storm system will be developing near the Great Lakes, but a secondary low may form near the NYC Metro area, and this could help hold in some colder air to produce some icing in the high terrain west of the CT River, and rain in the valley, but I will keep you updated as we get closer.
Until then, get ready for a seasonable and festive Christmas holiday, and have a great day!
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
― Joseph Campbell