Good morning folks, we have a few light showers or sprinkles in parts of our region this early morning, but those will vanish and increasing sunshine will warm us into the 70s today followed by increasing humidity this evening and especially tomorrow afternoon when periods of showers will work through the region with a cold frontal passage into early Friday morning.

For today, any morning clouds will dissipate with time revealing a mostly sunny day that will feature a slow increase in humidity with dewpoints reaching the low 60s by later this afternoon along with a light southwest wind as high pressure positions to New England’s east.

For tonight, lows will dip into the mid to upper 50s with patchy fog possible late.

On Thursday, humidity will increase, and by afternoon we’ll see dewpoints in the 65-70º range which is quite humid, and that will be accompanied by incoming periods of showers, likely more numerous north of the Pike to start, and then we’ll see others tracking along and south of the Pike by later afternoon and evening as well.

Highs will reach well into the 70s to perhaps low 80s with some sunny breaks, and that will provide us with a late-summah feel.

Showers will continue Thursday night but start to break up and move out after midnight with lows either side of 60º.

On Friday, cooler air will lag the frontal passage and so highs under increasingly sunny skies will climb into the upper 60s to upper 70s before they really drop down Friday night with drier air as lows bottom out into the low to mid 40s.

Saturday is definitely going to be the weekend pick with high pressure continuing to press in from the west, which will produce Triple F weather – Full Fall Feel with highs in the 60s, sunny skies, and low humidity. Lows will drop into the mid to upper 40s as clouds increase ahead of a potential set of Sunday showers.

The thing with Sunday is that we’ll have strong high pressure to our northeast diving southeast towards Maine. Its exact track will determine whether or not a shortwave is allowed to track more directly east into the greater WMass region which could drench us with a soaking rainfall, vs. suppressing that system southwest of us, resulting in much less rain, or even no rain for areas like SWNH, northern CMass and eastern Franklin / Hampshire County areas, so I will continue to update as we get closer.

If we were to receive the full measure of that showery system, it would arrive by Sunday morning and rain through much of the day.

Temps would also be affected: rainy system means highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s, vs. less rain and highs more firmly into the 60s to near 70º, so we’ll see.

Monday looks drier, highs in the 60s with more rainfall possible by Tuesday with another system working east out of the Great Lakes and into New England, so lots to track!

Have a great day!

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YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:31am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 6:58pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 12 hours 27 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON ROSE AT: 12:35pm this afternoon
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Southeast
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 9:25pm tonight
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Southwest
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent (28.0% Illumination)

YOUR DAILY NUTSHELL(S)
WEDNESDAY:
–Light showers abate, sunshine increases
–Highs well into the 70s
–Humidity creeps up this afternoon / eve
–Lows mid to upper 50s, patchy fog late

THURSDAY:
–Warmer and quite humid
— Clouds increase with highs reaching the 70s to 80º
–Showers arrive by afternoon, areas north of the Pike, later southern areas
–A tenth to third of an inch of rain for most, some less than a tenth
–Showers abate by midnight tomorrow night, lows either side of 60º

FRIDAY:
–Early morning clouds give way to sunshine
–Highs upper 60s to upper 70s high terrain to valley
–Lows low to mid 40s, mostly clear

SATURDAY:
–Weekend pick with mostly sunny skies
–Highs in the 60s, Triple F weather (Full Fall Feel)
–Lows mid to upper 40s, clouds increase

SUNDAY:
–Mostly cloudy with periods of rain possible
–Uncertainty remains, but showers possible by early morning
–Highs low to mid 60s
–Updates will be forthcoming
–If system materializes, heavy rain possible
–Lows mid to upper 40s with any showers abating

MONDAY-TUESDAY:
–Monday is a lull with highs in the 60s, partly sunny, lows 45-50º
–More rain possible by Tuesday with similar high temps