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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 RISES AT: 7:07am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:58pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 51 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 2:43pm this afternoon
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Southwest
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 6:55am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Southeast
–MOON PHASE: Waning Crescent (5.1%)
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A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning everybody, we’re still on this giant cosmic ride, constantly corkscrewing through the Universe and never occupying the same place in Space during any single second of our lives. It feels like I’m in my same office, looking up to the same wall as my floaters and tiring eyes exhibit their requisite wonkiness, but nay I say! We are plying The Great Vacuum, hurling towards nowhere and everywhere at once. Life is a trip, and I hope something goes well for you in your trip today.
As for our weather, it’s still cold, and it’s still late January, and temps this morning are in the teens for the most part.
As temps come up today, we can expect southwest wind gusts to resume today as they did yesterday, with gusts between 20-35mph expected, though they may pick up a bit more late this afternoon into evening as a powerful Canadian low pressure system tracks east through James Bay on its way to Quebec Province.
This will pulse and ripple a sharper pressure gradient through the greater WMass region today and tonight, producing gusty conditions at times out of the southwest.
Highs today under mostly sunny skies will reach the low to mid 30s, and lows will dip into the low 20s as clouds increase, and our cold front approaches.
This front looks fairly sharp, thought it should be weakening by the time it reaches the WMass region and southern VT, but I think it will have enough oomph left to produce a broken line of snow showers with a couple of embedded snow squalls possible.
This will likely lay down a fresh coating to an inch of snow during the morning commute, so be alert to changing visibilities, winds, and potential for brief heavy snow Tuesday morning between say 6am-8am or so.
In addition, there may be a brief burst of higher wind gusts behind the front so that mid to late morning time could see a spike of gusts in the 30-50mph range, so be careful during Tuesday morning travel, especially in the high terrain west of the I-91 corridor.
The front will clear the area by mid-day, and after morning clouds, a mostly sunny day will develop with highs reaching the mid 20s to low 30s, with falling temps down into the teens at night with clouds rebuilding.
Our next system will be an Alberta Clipper that will track east-southeast through central New England and push a warm front our way, which will bring light to perhaps moderate-at-times snowfall intensity late Tuesday night through Wednesday morning with a coating to 3” expected (most see coating to an inch or two).
The front will pass through and briefly push our temps into the mid to upper 30s, with additional scattered showers of rain or snow during the afternoon.
A second cold front moves through, and that passage will drop our temps into the single digits and teens with sunny highs the next day only in the 20s.
By Friday, we will see milder temps resume, pushing up into the 30s as another zonal-tracking (i.e. west to east) system may bring some more snow or mix Friday into Saturday, but I will refine that as we get closer.
We may even have another storm system by Sunday, so we’re getting more active as milder air is returning into the region, so I will keep you updated through all of it!
Have a great day!
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