Good morning folks, I hope at least one good thing happens to and/or for you today and that it puts a smile on your face, and maybe even raises your eyebrows at the same time. As for our weather, we’ve got gobs of No-Big-Whoop on the way, if you ask me. Yes, it will be seasonable to below-seasonable in temps terms, but no big washouts, no big cold snaps, no big hot streaks, no big severe weather – just a slow slide into Spring.

For today, patchy dense fog will burn off as temps come up through mid to late morning, revealing mostly sunny skies across the greater WMass region with highs in the low 50s in the high terrain to low 60s in the valley, although the Hartford metro / lower CT River Valley may spike into the mid 60s by mid-afternoon.

In addition, our pesky upper low will back southwest into eastern Maine and combine with surface high pressure in western Quebec to send a dry cold front through, which will cause relative humidity to plummet by afternoon, and northwest wind gusts to pick up to 20-35mph at times.

We’ve had some precipitation recently, so we don’t have a major fire spread risk developing, but this afternoon’s conditions could cause some spread so mind your butts and burns, people!

For tonight, wind dies down and lows will drop into the 30s, setting us up for a bit cooler of a day tomorrow with highs mostly in the 50s, with some upper 40s possible in SVT and far northwest MA. Lows again will drop into the 30s.

By Saturday, we’ll start off partly sunny, but a weak storm system will be sliding southeast out of the eastern Great Lakes and headed for the northern Mid-Atlantic region, and could swipe the central/southern Berkshires, southwest hilltowns, and northwest CT with some showers Saturday by later afternoon and especially Saturday night.

Highs Saturday will reach the upper 40s to mid 50s and lows will drop into the 30s with highs on Sunday under partial sunshine reaching the mid 50s to low 60s, so Sunday definitely looks like the weekend pick.

By early next week, high pressure will build into New England, and that should help produce a pair of at least partly sunny days with highs in the mid 50s to low 60s with clouds building Tuesday, and a chance for showers developing by Tuesday night into Wednesday.

Have a great day and check your Nutshell and Celestials below!

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

YOUR NUTSHELL:
–Upper low backing into Maine and high pressure pushing a dry cold front through today produces wind and a dry surface
–Sunshine develops with highs in the low 50s to low 60s, mid 60s near Hartford
–Northwest winds gust 20-35mph at times
–Low fire spread risk due to dry surface/air and wind, but not a zero risk
–Lows tonight drop into the 30s, as they will for many days ahead
–Friday is partly sunny, highs upper 40s to upper 50s, with lows in the 30s
–Saturday is partly sunny early, then clouds build especially the further west you go, highs upper 40s to mid 50s
–Some showers possible in the southern Berkshires, southwest hilltowns and northwest CT by Saturday night, otherwise mostly dry elsewhere
–Lows Saturday night mid 30s to low 40s
–We dry out Sunday with partly sunny skies and highs either side of 60º
–Early next week should feature fair weather with high pressure bringing partial sunshine and highs either side of 60º both days
–Tuesday afternoon and night into Wednesday should trend cloudier with chance for showers

YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 5:57am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 7:40pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 13 hours and 43 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 11:10am this morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Northeast
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 2:40am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Northwest
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent (42.9%)