Good morning folks, we’re still corkscrewing through Space because as we orbit our star, our entire solar system is orbiting the Milky Way Galaxy as the entire galaxy is careening through Space – that’s a lot of moving parts! Fortunately for us, we don’t have a ton of meteorologically-moving parts to produce any sort of seriously impactful weather, but we do have a couple of things to discuss, so in we dive.

For today, we’ve got a final day of unseasonable warmth to work through due to a departing upper ridge well south of us along with an associated surface-based high pressure center well east of the Carolinas.

These fair weather features will push warmth on southerly flow into the greater WMass region, and push high temps mostly into the upper 70s to upper 80s from high terrain to the valley by this afternoon. Despite a mostly cloudy start, I do expect a partly sunny day to develop.

I can’t rule out an isolated shower or even a garden variety thunderstorm, but most of us will stay dry. Lows will drop into the upper 40s to mid 50s behind the mostly-dry cold front that will pass through.

For our Thursday, we should see more clouds than sun as a weak wave works through the region with an isolated shower or two possible as highs reach a more seasonable upper 60s to mid 70s range, followed by lows in the 45-50º range.

On Friday, a more potent but compact little upper low system will dive southeast into northern New England and track over EMass, bringing similar high temps to Thursday, but also more clouds and periods of showers by Friday evening.

The timing of showery onset and departure is still a bit up in the air, but an onset of roughly Friday late afternoon to evening with showers overnight, and an exit by Saturday mid-day into early afternoon looks most probable at the moment.

I can’t even rule out a few snowflakes mixing into the peaks of Stratton, Mt. Snow, and Okemo late Friday night! Certainly Mt. Washington could pick up some light accumulation at over 6000 feet in elevation.

Saturday will be the cooler of the two weekend days, and cloudier as well, with highs ranging in the upper 50s to mid 60s with some hopeful brightening toward the end of the day. Maybe we’ll get a nice sunset!

By Sunday, fair weather arrives with highs in the mid 60s to low 70s under partly sunny skies, and by early next week, temps will come up a touch, cresting into the upper 60s to mid 70s with a few showers possible Monday, and a return to fair weather by Tuesday.

It’s a pretty tranquil weather pattern ahead, and one that will be trending back to seasonable after today’s warmth.

Thanks for reading, and have a great day!

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

YOUR NUTSHELL:
–Very warm today with partly sunny skies developing
–Highs mid 70s to mid 80s, with a few upper 80s possible lower CT River Valley
–An isolated shower or thunderstorm is possible later this afternoon
–Lows tonight in the upper 40s to mid 50s
–An isolated couple of showers possible for Thursday afternoon, but again, most of us should stay dry
–Highs behind our cold front Thursday reach the upper 60s to mid 70s under partly to mostly sunny skies with lows either side of 50º
–Highs Friday also reach the upper 60s to mid 70s, but clouds build by afternoon
–A small but potent low-pressure center dives southeast and brings showers by Friday evening into the overnight
–Lows Friday night either side of 50º
–Showers will be possible in the morning before we break out into a partly sunny day later on
–Highs reach the upper 50s to upper 60s, lows in the low to mid 40s, cool
–Sunday is the weekend pick as there will be more sunshine
–Sunday highs reach the mid 60s to low 70s, lows 45-50º
–Monday may feature some scattered showers into the night with highs generally in the upper 60s to mid 70s early next week

YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 5:19am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 8:15pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 14 hours and 56 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 5:01pm this afternoon
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 3:21am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Southwest
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Gibbous (86.5%)