Good morning folks, the booms arrived for some of us last night, and we’ll get one more chance to see a thunderstorm this evening and tonight before the booms leave us alone for a while as we begin to settle back into a more seasonable, cooler early Spring pattern by next week.

For this morning, we’ve got patchy dense fog out there as a wet ground from rainfall overnight has increased the dew point temps at a time when early morning air temps will falling to their lows. When the dewpoint and the air temp meet and shake hands they have a baby, and that baby is called fog, and some of that fog is quite dense in spots this morning.

However, any fog will be short-lived as our upper ridge down over the southeast U.S. will flex one last time and crawl up the coast, pushing our high temps into the mid 70s to mid 80s or so for highs today. The exception to that may be in far eastern Windham County CT and far eastern Worcester County in CMass where a back door cold front may cool us towards 70º.

Today looks partly sunny on average, and by late this afternoon we’ll be watching a shortwave and cold front sweep into northern NY headed for western parts of central and northern New England.

Given that we’re in the warm sector with plenty of moisture around, I expect some scattered showers and thunderstorms to develop by as early as later afternoon, but more likely after dinner time during the first half of the night.

Some storms may become strong to severe with strong wind or even larger hail, so I will keep an eye on it and update you again by this later afternoon.

Lows tonight will once again settle to either side of 60º, with highs on Friday reaching into the 70s, but not the 80s as our early summer heat breaks today.

A few scattered showers are possible Friday, and then cooler lows will sit down to near 50º.

Saturday looks like the pick of the weekend, but should be mostly cloudy and dry with highs in the 60s to near 70º as the next episode of The Coolening starts to be broadcast across the region. Lows at night will be in the 40s as clouds thicken.

By Sunday, a strong storm system that will bring snow to the James Bay area of Canada will be tracking well north of us and drag its pattern-changing cold front through the greater WMass region starting Sunday morning.

Showers and rainfall will push into the region by mid-morning or so, so expect a wet, cool day on Sunday with highs only in the 50s, and then falling in the afternoon into the upper 30s to 40s.

In fact, enough cold air may work in behind the cold front that we flip to wet snow in SVT and far northwest MA like the northern Berkshires or the western Franklin County hilltowns.

Sunday night lows will crash to the upper 20s to low 30s with some snow showers possible, and maybe even some patchy black ice!

Big changes ahead, folks… and Monday looks blustery and cold with highs only in the upper 30s to mid 40s with lows plummeting into the 20s by late Monday night.

We should start to rebound Tuesday and Wednesday with highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s Tuesday under mostly sunny skies, but more showers move in with another cold front mid-week, so while we might hit 60º on Wednesday, I think it’s probable that we’ll temps head back down for the late week period, but I will keep you updated.

Have a great day!

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
― Joseph Campbell

YOUR NUTSHELL:
–Patchy dense fog early will dissipate as temps rise into the mid 70s to mid 80s today under partly sunny skies
–First of two cold fronts arrives overnight
–A shortwave will accompany the front and push scattered showers and storms into the region
–A storm or two may become strong to severe, and larger hail is possible
–Timeframe is most likely between 6pm and midnight
–Lows tonight again will settle out to either side of 60º
–Friday highs in the 70s with a few isolated to scattered showers possible
–Lows near 50º beget a Saturn’s Day that looks mostly dry with highs reaching the 65-70º range which is still well above average
–Clouds thicken Saturday night with lows in the 40s
–Our second, pattern-changing cold front sweeps into the region Sunday morning with rainfall
–Highs in the 50s are probably realized during the later morning, before temps fall during the day
–A change to or mix with snow is possible by Sunday afternoon in the mountains of northwest MA and SVT, with some coatings possible
–Lows Sunday night crash into the upper 20s to low 30s with a few snow showers around
–Monday is blustery with northwest gusts of 30mph and highs only in the upper 30s to mid 40s, followed by lows in the 20s
–Tuesday will see temps rise into the upper 40s to mid 50s as high pressure moves in behind the front and tracks southeast of our region
–More showers move in by mid-week with temps approaching 60º, before falling back likely later in the week

YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:08am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 7:32pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 13 hours and 24 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 6:55pm this afternoon
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Northwest
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 5:49am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East
–MOON PHASE: New Moon (1.6%)