Good morning folks, we’ve got mixed showers out there this morning with rain, snow, and mixed rain and snow reported. As our weak system rides along a warm front that is just west of us (and won’t make it east of our region) we’ll see cooler temps today with highs in the 40s, along with scattered generally light mixed showers this morning, turning to rain showers as temps rise into mid-day and tapering off by mid to late in the afternoon.

It’ll be cloudy and chilly as our blocking pattern continues with an upper low over Atlantic Canada that is currently stuck in place and will even track southwest towards Maine (i.e. retrograde) through Thursday before high pressure to its east opens up, lowers, and allows it to escape seaward.

That is what’s causing the delay with getting our temps up into a more seasonable zone of 50s to low 60s for highs, though that is coming.

Lows tonight will dip into the mid to upper 30s.

For Thursday, our upper low backs closer to us, but a ridge will be pushing in from the Ohio Valley so some drying presses in from the east with showers in eastern MA that may graze parts of CMass or far northeast CT.

Otherwise, we should see partly sunny skies develop with northwest winds gusting 20-35mph between the upper low east and upper ridge west. Lows will drop into the 30s once again.

By Friday through the weekend, that blocking pattern east of Canada and up to Greenland should start to break down, and allow our upper low an escape route which allows our upper ridge to press east and produce more in the way of sunshine and seasonably mild temps well into the 50s during Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with chilly lows in the 30s as radiational cooling sets up.

By early next week, we may push a smidge milder with highs in the mid 50s to low 60s under sunny skies ahead of what may be a frontal passage by Tuesday night into Wednesday with more showers possible by that time.

Have a great day!

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YOUR NUTSHELL:
–Scattered mixed showers thanks to a warm front that’s near but never punches thru the region
–Any mix of snow and sleet turns to light rain showers by afternoon with highs in the 40s for our Wednesday
–We start drying more by later afternoon with lows in the upper 30s to low 40s
–Thursday is looking a bit milder, and gustier
–Highs reach into the upper 40s to 50s under partly sunny skies, with NW wind gusts 20-35mph
–Lows will drop into the mid to upper 30s
–Friday through Sunday should features highs well into the 50s under mostly sunny skies as our upper level low and blocking pattern breaks loose
–Lows will be in the 30s during these nights, mostly above freezing
–There will be a system diving southeast positioned to our southwest Saturday night, so a few showers are possible in southern Berks, NW.CT then
–Some signs of a brief mild-up early next week with highs approaching the low 60s as an upper ridge moves east
–Some rain is possible by middle of next week

YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 5:58am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 7:39pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 13 hours and 41 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 9:55am this morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Northeast
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 2:02am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Northwest
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent (31.9%)