Good morning folks, our mostly ho-hum weather episode continues as we remain within this rather blocked upper air pattern with an upper low in Atlantic Canada not really going anywhere, and upper low over the northern Rockies, and general ridge of high pressure in between with surface high pressure building south out of Quebec into the northeast U.S. This will keep us mostly rain-free until mid next week.

As for today, full sunshine is developing with lighter winds compared to yesterday and highs in the 55-60º range (possibly a few low 50s in SVT/SWNH and far northern MA), with lows in the low to mid 30s under partly cloudy skies with patchy frost possible.

Saturday looks like a more partly sunny day with highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s with clouds slowly building west of the I-91 corridor and south of Rt. 2 as a system works southeast out of the eastern Great Lakes, but is shunted mostly west of us due to the lingering upper low in Atlantic Canada.

While most of us in the greater WMass region should remain dry, the system should get close enough to us by later afternoon and overnight to push some rain showers into western CT and into the southern Berkshires over to western Hampden County, with a sharp cut off in the precip shield to the northeast expected.

I will keep an eye on it, as it could pull away to the southwest, which would keep us all drier for Saturday evening with lows in the 30s.

Then we’ll push into the Sunday through Tuesday timeframe looks generally looks partly sunny with higher pressure re-asserting itself, along with highs in the 55-60º range and lows in the 35-40º range.

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By mid week, a cold front that holds the potential to sweep our lazy, lollygagging, sleepy upper low FINALLY out to sea could bring some showers to the region by later in the day and especially Wednesday night into Thursday with similar temps.

As the Mary Tyler Moore theme crooned, we’re gonna make it after all!

Have a great day!

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

YOUR NUTSHELL:
–Still under cooling influence of upper low keeping us it he 50s for highs
–Clouds in southwest CT dissipate, full sunshine develops across the region
–Lighter wind, with lows in the low to mid 30s overnight, some patchy frost
–Partly sunny Saturday, then clouds increase in western and southwestern areas (Berkshires, northwest CT)
–Some scattered showers possible southern Berkshires, western Hampden County, northwest CT, likely dry elsewhere northeast of those areas
–Any showers would arrive by later Saturday afternoon into the overnight
–Lows in the 30s, followed by a partly sunny Sunday, highs 55-60º
–Very low chance storm developing south of us pushes some showers up to well south of the Pike in CT
–Monday and Tuesday look partly sunny with highs in the low 50s to low 60s
–Wednesday and Thursday look wetter as a cold front tries to slide east and push that blocked up upper low over Atlantic Canada out to sea

YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 5:55am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 7:41pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 13 hours and 46 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 12:26pm this morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Northeast
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 3:09am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Northwest
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Gibbous (54.0%)