Good morning everybody, we’ve got about 48 more hours of Winter’s last, final, conclusive parting gift that will deliver colder, late-winter temps along with some snow showers that may even whiten grassy surfaces in some high terrain areas like SVT, the Berkshires, western hill towns, northwest CT and even northern parts of the valley into SWNH and northern parts of CMass! Hooray, Dave, that’s *awesome* news (said nobody reading this report).

Take heart folks, it’ll be but a blip in the story of your life as a Spring pattern sets up for Wednesday through Sunday set to deliver 5 days of fair weather, sunshine, and warming temps. We’re New Englanders and we’ll get through these next 2 days, for cripes sakes as my Nana used to say.

For today, we’re in a cold advection pattern with northwest flow bringing cooler air, highs in the upper 30s to upper 40s, and gusts of 20-35mph this morning into the afternoon before tapering this evening. Skies will be mixed, though trend mostly cloudy especially by afternoon.

This is also kicking up a weak lake effect pattern with some flurries or light snow showers that will dot areas of SVT, the Berkshires, far northwest CT, and even the western hilltowns, but no accumulation is expected save for a very isolated mountain top or two.

As an upper trough maximizes into the northeast U.S., clouds thicken tonight ahead of an Alberta Clipper system which will dive southeast into the region. With lows in the mid 20s to low 30s, we’ll snow showers push into the region generally after 5am Tuesday morning.

Scattered snow showers are expected Tuesday morning, with mixed showers developing during the day (some may change to rain I the southern valley and northern CT by afternoon).

Highs will only be in the mid 30s to mid 40s Tuesday (the coldest day of the week) and mixed shower activity should continue into the evening, with some coatings to an inch of wet snow possible in the high terrain west of the I-91 corridor, with some slushy coatings that may extend east through Franklin County, northern CMass and SWNH with little to no accumulation south of there in southern parts of WMass / CMass and northern CT.

We’ll clear out behind that system Tuesday night, and temps will crash into the mid teens to mid 20s, so Wednesday morning (48 hours from now) will feature full-on winter cold! Bundle up for those dog walks, people walks, or early commutes!

High pressure will push in for Wednesday and drift over us, producing sunnier skies and milder temps in the 40s to low 50s for highs, with mid to upper 20s for lows.

However, that high pressure system will continue to track southeast of New England, and in doing so will open us up to southwest flow, which is a warming flow which will produce more sunshine Thursday with highs in the low to mid 50s, and lows in the low to mid 30s

By Friday through the weekend, we’ll really max our early Spring temps into the upper 50s to mid 60s under mostly sunny skies with fair weather and lows in the 30s to 40s.

A big fair weather Spring stretch is coming folks, but we just gotta get through the next 48 hours which will remind us of the season that’s just getting close to vanishing from our collective rearview mirror.

Have a great day!

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

YOUR NUTSHELL:
–Northwest winds gust 20-35mph this morning into afternoon before tapering down
–Partly sunny on average, but more clouds than Sun should develop in the cold advection pattern, especially in the high terrain
–A few flurries or snow showers expected in the Berkshires, Litchfields, SVT, western hilltowns, may mix with rain, but we’re mostly dry
–Highs upper 30s to upper 40s, lows mid 20s to low 30s
–Clouds thicken overnight as a Clipper system approaches
–This system runs into southwest New England and pushes areas of snow showers in by between 5am-8m in Tuesday morning
–Scattered snow showers in the morning turn to scattered mixed or rain showers by afternoon, ending in the evening
–Some high-terrain light wet-snow accumulations of a coating to an inch are possible, though most see little none generally south of the Rt. 2 corridor
–Highs Tuesday will be a bit colder, reaching the mid 30s to mid 40s, and dropping into the upper teens to mid 20s for lows Tuesday night
–High pressure pushes into New England Wednesday, then positions to our southeast by late week into the weekend
–This turns the flow from northwest to southwest, and warms us through the 40s to low 50s for highs on Wednesday (lows mid to upper 20s), and into the low to mid 50s by Thursday (lows low to mid 30s) under mostly sunny skies
–We warm further into the upper 50s to mid 60s for the Friday through Sunday timeframe with perhaps a few showers Friday night
–A long stretch of partly to mostly sunny fair weather dominates mid week through the weekend, Spring lovahs!

YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:24am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 7:21pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 12 hours and 57 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 8:17am this morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Southwest
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 12:31am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Southeast
–MOON PHASE: Waning Gibbous (82.7%)