HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY! WE’RE TURNING WINTRY AFTER TODAY, SO ENJOY THIS METEOROLOGICAL RESPITE WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS, OR IF ALONE (WHICH I’VE BEEN IN THE PAST), A NATURE WALK, BOOK, MUSIC, BATH, SOMETHING YOU ENJOY… SHOWERS OVERNIGHT TURN TO SNOW SHOWERS FOR MANY OF US TOMORROW BY AFTERNOON WITH LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS IN NW.MA AND S.VT BY FRIDAY NIGHT… PERHAPS 3-6″ IN THE SOUTHERN GREEN MOUNTAINS… MORE LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOWFALL POSSIBLE SUNDAY LATE AFTERNOON INTO EARLY MONDAY… WINTER IS SHOWING ITSELF AS DECEMBER ARRIVES… 10:20am Thurs….

Good morning everybody, we’ve got a lovely day ahead for Thanksgiving, and I hope you have a wonderful day of good food, friends, and family if you are so blessed. I count my blessings daily, and right at the top of my list is all of you for your readership, encouragement, support and overall sweetness.

As for our weather, we’ve got a nice day ahead with partly sunny skies and highs 45-50º, and dry conditions.

Clouds will build this afternoon ahead of an incoming cold front tomorrow along with a mid-level low that will run right across the MA/VT-NH border, and then east-northeast over Downeast Maine in the afternoon and night.

Lows tonight will drop into the low to mid 30s BEFORE the cold front comes through, and we can expect scattered rain showers to push into the Berkshires and Litchfields before midnight, maybe around 9-11pm, then spread through the rest of the greater WMass region.

By tomorrow morning, some snow may be mixing in over the high terrain of southern VT or northwest MA, but the real snow showery setup arrives by late morning into early afternoon as that front moves through and the mid-level low approaches with its more intense rising air and spin (respectively a/k/a forcing and vorticity).

Westerly and northwesterly winds will pick up in the afternoon and especially at night, gusting 25-40mph at times, and upslope and lake effect snow showers will become more numerous over the Litchfields, Berkshires, Taconics, western hilltowns, and especially in southern VT east of Bennington and west of Brattleboro.

We will also likely see scattered snow showers in the Pioneer Valley points east and south, with some coatings by night time, though some folks will just see air snow in these lower elevation areas.

But in the aforementioned high terrain areas, a coating to 2″ should be widespread, with some 2-5″ amounts in the spine of the southern Green Mountains, and maybe over elevations of 2000 feet in northwest MA and the Monadnock Region.

Travel will be impacted up on Rt. 9 in southern VT for sure, I believe with wind, blowing snow, and falling snow.

Highs Friday will be in the mid 30s to low 40s and lows in the low to mid 20s as snow abates, but winds continue, dropping wind chill readings into the teens for many of us.

Saturday and Sunday look fair with mostly sunny skies Saturday and partly sunny skies on Sunday. Highs will be in the 30s both days as the colder air works into the region with lows in the low to mid 20s.

By Sunday afternoon, a second storm will be rounding the southern flank of an upper level low as they swing into the lower Great Lakes region toward the Mid-Atlantic coast, which will spawn a secondary low south of Long Island by Sunday night into Monday.

It will be cold enough for snow folks, so we’ll have to watch the trends and development of this system, as we could have our first actual widespread light to moderate snowfall across the WMass region, including the valley floor, for Sunday night into Monday, so stay tuned for my update tomorrow morning first thing.

Behind that Monday system, more cold air gets pulled in with lows in the teens Monday night, and highs in the 30s into the middle of next week.

Winter is flexing its muscles, and I will keep you updated the whole way.

Thanks again so much to all of you, and have a great rest of your Thanksgiving Day!