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* Sponsor Section
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YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
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STAR:
–OUR STAR RISES AT: 7:17am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:40pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 23 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 3:06pm this afternoon
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Northeast
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 7:28am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Northwest
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Gibbous, almost full (97.5%)
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning folks, we’ve got a very nice day ahead under mostly sunny skies that should melt some snow with expected highs reaching into the low to mid 30s. High pressure will build in through West Virginia, head off the coast, and provide us with a bit of southerly, milder flow and lighter wind. Lows tonight will dip down to either side of 20º under partly cloudy skies.
By Monday, we’ll be even a bit milder with highs reaching the 35-40º range under partly sunny skies, as we get ready to receive the first of two cold fronts moving through our region Monday night and again Tuesday evening.
The Monday front will be tied to southern Canadian low pressure tracking east and dragging said front east through our region, which could kick off some scattered snow showers and even a snow squall or two, especially in the Berkshires, western hilltowns, and southern VT.
Those should develop after sunset mainly in the early evening timeframe, and as temps start to drop, roads could get slick in isolated areas. Lows will drop into the upper teens to low 20s.
Tuesday will be noticeably cooler behind the front with west winds gusting up to 25mph or so, along with partly sunny skies and highs in the 20s to low 30s.
Another shortwave will move through our flow with a secondary cold front, though only a few flurries would be possible with no real precipitation expected. Lows will be colder, dropping firmly into the teens, which will set up a blustery Wednesday.
By mid-week, wind will veer to the northwest and gust 25-40mph for a day behind the second front, and highs will only reach the upper teens to upper 20s under partly to mostly sunny skies, with slackening winds at night and lows in the single digits, so Wednesday and Wednesday night represents our next peak of cold.
Once we reach late week, fair weather will continue and highs will climb through the 20s Thursday to the upper 20s to mid 30s on Friday, prior to what may become an unsettled weekend.
As of now, we’re a week out, but it does look like a milder southwest flow could push a warm front into the region, bringing some rain showers or mixed with snow in the high terrain sometime Saturday or Sunday, which may be followed by a secondary coastal storm sliding northeast up that old frontal boundary with potential wintry impacts by early the following week.
Overall, late January into early February does look to produce additional shots of cold, wintry air masses, but also the potential for more amplified storm tracks which could push more active weather into our region.
As I mentioned in the headline, over the next couple of days I’m taking a brief pause in my reporting while it’s fairly quiet (though watch for squalls early Monday evening, and isolated road condition changes), and before it gets busy again mid-week into the weekend, but will be back no later than Wednesday morning to resume my daily reports and verbose weather blathering activities.
Have a great rest of your weekend into early week, and thanks for your readership as well as all of your interactions here, I really appreciate it and you, take care, Dave.
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