Good morning fine folks of the Golden West, as my Dad used to call it, the birds are chirping still, the Sun is shining, and the dew keeps forming – life sure is something else. As for our weather, we’ve got a couple more lovely days, especially THIS day, so let’s jump into the details.

For today, our upper ridge crests into the region placing directly between a coastal storm to our east, and our incoming Thursday storm to our west. What that means for us in the greater WMass region is light southeast flow and highs in the mid 60s to low 70s under sunny skies.

Lows tonight will dip into the mid 30s to low 40s, so we’ll still be dealing with chilly mornings.

For Wednesday, we start to transition into an unsettled and cooler period of weather, as the upper level pattern through the first half of May continues to access that deep, longstanding reservoir of cold air in Canada that developed over the Winter.

While many of us would love to spring into the mid 60s to mid 70s (not happening yet), at least we’re climatologically making progress: we’re almost receiving 14+ hours of daylight and we’re less than 2 months from the Summer Solstice!

But, it was a long, tough winter and after highs on Wednesday well into the 60s with clouds increasing, we’ll move into Wednesday night when rainfall is expected to reach the NY/CT-MA-VT border before midnight and then push through the rest of the greater WMass region with lows in the 40s.

Rainfall will continue through Thursday morning and taper off sometime by mid to late Thursday afternoon as a secondary low pulls the cold front northeast and out of here. Highs on Thursday will only reach the upper 40s to upper 50s with lows in the 30s.

The Friday through Sunday period looks mostly dry, but with an upper low overhead it will be cooler and could produce a mix of sun and clouds with a few showers possible by Saturday.

Highs will hang in the mid 40s to mid 50s for the most part with lows in the low to mid 30s through the period, so really enjoy today and tomorrow given the milder temps.

By early next week, we start off dry with temps rebounding up a bit by Monday, perhaps well into the 50s and touching 60º in a few spots.

By Tuesday, even milder temps are expected ahead of another cold front that may clash enough to produce showers and some thunderstorms as well by Tuesday evening.

Have a great day!

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

YOUR NUTSHELL:
–Another gorgeous day on the way!
–Highs in the mid 60s to low 70s under sunny skies
–Some clouds will move in later this afternoon and evening
–Lows dip into the mid 30s to low 40s
–A mix of sun/clouds Wednesday with highs in the 60s
–Clouds thicken Wednesday night with rain arriving to the NY border with MA and CT just before midnight
–Lows will hang in the 40s
–Rain expected through Thursday morning, tapering off sometime by mid to late afternoon
–Highs Thursday hang in the upper 40s to 50s with lows in the 30s
–Friday through Sunday features an upper level trough swinging into the northeast U.S., though centered a bit more north of us
–Partly sunny skies on average are expected with a few spot showers possible by Saturday
–Highs should generally reach the mid 40s in the high terrain to mid 50s in the valley through the period with lows in the low to mid 30s
–Milder by early next week with ridge of high pressure building in
–This may set us up for a cold front and thunderstorms by Tuesday afternoon / evening

YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 5:50am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 7:46pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 13 hours and 56 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 4:59pm this afternoon
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 4:33am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Gibbous (89.9%)