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: 7:18am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:34pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 16 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON ROSE AT: 11:07am this morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 12:27am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Northwest
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent (44.4%)
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A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning, folks, we’ve got a cold start out there under mostly cloudy skies with temps in the teens and 20s throughout the greater WMass region, and the clouds will be around today, especially south of the VT-NH/MA state line as our Mid-Atlantic snowstorm stays to our south.
We actually have the upper level low in the right place to help get a storm up into New England, but it is oriented in a “positive tilt” which means it will sweep said storm east and out to sea, possibly brushing southern Litchfield County and rest of southern CT with a few hours of flurries or some snow showers early to mid-afternoon.
Otherwise, highs will cap out into the 20s with lows in the upper singles to teens tonight as we start to clear out.
However, as our storm pulls away, the surface pressure gradient will tighten back up in the storm’s wake, and that will produce increasing northwest wind gusts later tonight, and especially through the Tuesday to Thursday period.
The lake effect snow machine will turn on, but the northwest flow will drive snow showers away from northwest CT, the Berkshires and SVT, so we will end up dry, cold and wind this week with partly to mostly sunny skies Tuesday through Thursday.
Highs will only reach the upper teens to mid 20s during this blustery period, and lows will drop to the upper single digits to teens.
This will produce wind chills at times near or below zero, so you will need to bundle up for much of this week.
By Friday through the weekend, the wind should die down, likely with continued dry conditions and highs a bit milder but still cold, with highs in the mid 20s to low 30s.
I will be monitoring a potential storm for Saturday night into Sunday, but unlikely other channels I’ve been paying attention to, I am not going to take you through endless analyses of model-based phantom storms, as I respect your time, energy and attention too much.
Suffice it to say, it looks for now like it will go out to sea or just graze us, perhaps, but I will keep tabs on it and watch trends and report updates to you throughout this week.
Thanks so much for your readership, and have a great day!
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