Good morning folks, well we certainly are staring down a dearth of rainfall along with two bouts of upcoming unseasonable heat for early to mid-June as our daylight peaks in terms of hours and minutes of planetary illumination. Between these 2 runs toward and just above 90º, we have our first shot at severe weather in a while for Saturday late afternoon and especially in the evening with strong to severe thunderstorms possible.

Before we get there, we’ve got a fairly dry yet very warm-to-hot today to end our work week today / Friday. Skies should become mostly sunny with highs reaching well into the 80s to low 90s, and lows should bottom out to either side of 60º under partly cloudy skies.

For Saturday, we have a cold front and associated showers and thunderstorms to manage, but that activity should mostly hold off until the 4pm-Midnight timeframe.

During the morning and into the mid-afternoon we should be mostly dry, partly sunny on average (more sun in the morning, less in the afternoon), and very warm to hot once again with highs in the low 80s to low 90s from our high terrain areas to the Pioneer Valley.

As a cold front approaches the greater WMass region for the evening hours, a pre-frontal trough zone will push into our area, and could spawn a few isolated showers, or a downpour or thunderstorm between say 2pm and 6pm, but most of us should be dry.

However, after about 5pm or 6pm, a somewhat congealed line of showers, downpours and strong to potentially severe thunderstorms will be forming out over NY state and tracking east-southeast into our region.

Some of these cells could go strong to severe with strong to locally damaging wind gusts, small hail, lightning and torrential rainfall.

By about midnight this activity should be through the region and lows will drop into the mid 50s to mid 60s.

Behind the front, Sunday looks much cooler with highs in the 70s under partly sunny skies (again more sun in the morning, less in the afternoon) with some scattered instability showers by afternoon. Lows will drop into the 50s.

Monday represents a seasonably warm day with highs in the 70s as high pressure crests overhead tracking southward through New England. Lows will dip into the low to mid 50s.

Then as high pressure positions south of us, it will develop a warming southwest flow and we’ll heat up again for Tuesday through Thursday with highs in the 80s Tuesday, and possibly the 80s to low 90s Wednesday and Thursday.

Thanks for reading and I hope you have a great day!

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

YOUR NUTSHELL:
–Morning clouds give way to mostly sunny skies
–Highs reach well into the 80s to low 90s for high temps with fairly dry air
–Lows tonight drop to either side of 60º
–Saturday starts off partly to mostly sunny but bubbles clouds up by afternoon
–Highs reach the mid 80s to low 90s prior to a cold front pushing thru at night
–Isolated to widely scattered showers or a t-storm between about 2-6pm
–Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms possible after 5pm or 6pm through to about midnight
–Localized damaging wind gusts and torrential rain possible, along with small hail
–Lows drop into the upper 50s to mid 60s
–Sunday looks to be partly sunny on average with more sun in the morning vs. the afternoon
–Highs should climb into the 70s behind the front, and some scattered instability showers develop by mid to late afternoon
–Lows will hang in the 50s overnight
–Monday highs will be seasonable and in the 70s under mostly sunny skies with lows in the low to mid 50s
–Tuesday to Thursday will see Monday’s high pressure center that sits over us, then scoot south of us to drive more heat back into the region
–Highs on Tuesday reach the 80s, and then on Wednesday into Thursday they’ll be in the 85-90º range, with some low 90s possible

YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 5:15am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 8:22pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 15 hours and 7 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 9:41am this morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Southwest
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 12:22am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast
–MOON PHASE: Waning Gibbous (78.1%)