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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Daily Celestials (Sun/Moon Data)
* Sponsor Note
* Morning Discussion
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YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
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STAR:
–OUR STAR RISES AT: 7:15am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:45pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 30 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 9:04am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Northwest
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 7:47pm this evening
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Northeast
–MOON PHASE: Waning Gibbous (92.9%)
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A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning, folks, please provide a thumbs up or thumbs down on “The Arctic Hammer” as my new pro wrestling handle.
I figure whenever it is in the future that I’m done being The Weather Nut, I’ll have a feature on the big screen, doing pile drivers and such from atop the corner ropes in an icy blue costume adorned with icicles and a giant snowflake on the back of my silvery light blue cape!
Don’t laugh, it could work!!
A guy’s gotta dream…
As far as our weather is concerned, we have a warm front moving in tonight, milder temps Friday and Saturday (which becomes breezy), a cold front Saturday night, a secondary coastal storm system Sunday night, and then the aforementioned Arctic Hammer drops Tuesday into mid-week, all of which precedes a potentially larger storm by next Friday.
As far as the details are concerned, we’re starting off cold this morning with temps in the upper singles to mid teens. We also have some remnant upslope snow flurries and showers in parts of the Berkshires and southwest VT where fresh coatings fell overnight.
That activity should wind down, and we’ll see temps rise into the mid 20s to low 30s as a warm front approaches from our west later today and tonight with sun early and clouds building late.
Some scattered snow showers will develop this evening, but mostly south of the Pike closer to the weak disturbance passing through with the warm front. Some coatings are possible from this activity, but most see little to no accumulations and lows will drop into the teens.
For Friday and Saturday, high pressure builds east and off to the coast to our south, providing milder southerly flow and high temps rising into the low to mid 30s under mostly sunny skies Friday, and then the mid 30s to low 40s by Saturday with breezy conditions out of the south developing. Lows Friday night will dip to the upper teens to low 20s under partly cloudy skies.
By Saturday afternoon, clouds will be increasing as a cold front approaches New England, draped off of a storm that will pass to our north, allowing milder air to help develop rain showers by later afternoon and evening.
This doesn’t look like a big precip producer, but some snow may be mixing in over the Berkshires, western hilltowns and southern VT Saturday evening, and a flip to snow is possible with some light accumulations there as lows drop into the 20s. I wouldn’t expect more than a coating to an inch or two of wet snow, and the valley likely sees no snow or a brief snow shower at the end with no accumulation.
Sunday is cooler with highs reaching well into the 30s under partly sunny skies.
Clouds will increase later in the afternoon, especially east of the I-91 corridor, and I will be watching a secondary low pressure center develop along the departing cold front.
Most likely, this could produce some light snow accumulations in our region on the order of a coating to 3”, but I would bank for now on that mostly occurring in central MA, eastern Hampden/Hampshire Coujnties and north-central and northeast CT, but I will update as get closer.
It’s another “no-big-whoop” storm, if you ask me, but things can change and I will stay on top of it.
By Monday morning, any snow will be ending, and colder temps are going to be heading inbound, I’m afraid.
Monday to Wednesday looks MUCH colder with blustery conditions developing yet again, and highs only in the mid teens to mid 20s Monday, and then firmly in the teens Tuesday and Wednesday with fair weather expected, and lows trending to below zero by Tuesday night.
The combination of Arctic cold brought about by an Arctic high diving into the center of the country and driving cold northwest flow into New England, along with blustery wind gusts may prompt the NWS to hoist Cold Weather Advisories next week, so be prepared to bundle up with great robustness like the old New England pro that you are.
In the past, January was cold and drier, and February was less cold and snowier, so we’ll see if that plays out again this year.
For now, storms keep tracking mostly south of us due to blocking features downstream from us in Atlantic Canada, so those will need to reconfigure before we get any big snowstorms here in the greater western MA region in southwest New England.
Have a great day!
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