Good morning, and Happy Thanksgiving to everybody! I am exceedingly grateful for all of my readers today, with a special shout out to all of the patrons who’ve supported my work with donations in the past and to this day, and to my social media sponsors.

I am so thankful I get to continue to do this work and keep this as my life’s focus, and as my mobile app continues to inch closer to release I am excited to share it with you as soon as I’m able. Without your donations, I never would have been able to save up enough money to afford to develop it, so again I’m so thankful to all of you.

As for our Thanksgiving Day weather, aside from a few SVT flurries, we’re going to be dry and partly sunny on average with highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s. In addition, wind gusts will pick up and blow 20-30mph at times, which will put a chill to the air which is some 20 degrees colder than yesterday.

Overall, a good day for travel! For tonight, lows will drop into the mid to upper 20s with clouds increasing as flow turns off of Lake Huron and Lake Ontario, and starts to kick the lake effect snow machine ON.

By Friday morning, southern VT should be soon seeing snow showers and some may be on the moderate to heavy side as snow showers stream across NY state and into SVT, WMass and northwest CT as the day wears on.

In fact, we may see a very long multi-lake snow band form from Georgian Bay (the northeast flank of Lake Huron) extending through Lake Ontario and into the greater WMass region! Quite a meteorological feat!

The bands of snow showers will sort of start affecting northern areas like SVT, SWNH and far northwest MA earlier in the day, with the whole complex slowly sinking south through the day and into Friday night, ending up impacting only southern Berkshires and northwest CT later at night, as we dry out to the north.

Westerly winds will also gust 30-45mph causing highs in the 30s to feel like the 20s in terms of wind chill, so Friday is a more challenging day of ambulation and travel, so bundle up and be alert to changing road and visibility conditions if you’re out on the roads, especially in the hilly terrain.

Overall a coating to 2″ looks like a good bet for parts of Litchfield County, Berkshire County, the western hilltowns, SVT with some coatings possible into the valley or SWNH, where you get under these snow bands.

For the southern Greens, we could see more like 1-4″ of snowfall accumulation by Saturday morning.

Saturday looks mostly sunny with highs in the 35-40º range and lows in the 20s.

By Sunday another warm front will approach and if it can arrive early enough, it may cause light snow to break out at first before changing to rain later in the day/evening.

After that, I’m continuing to monitor signals for substantial-looking snow storm potential sometime during the Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday morning timeframe.

I will keep you updated on all of it! Thanks again for all of your readership, support, interactions, reports, and encouragement in this almost 15-year effort to keep my beloved western MA regional home updated as to how our weather will impact your lives.

I’m very thankful. Happy Thanksgiving!! – Dave