Good morning folks, let me know if you saw any snow accumulation overnight, or (if you live mostly in the northwestern MA into SVT region) if you are seeing snow this morning.

Additional light accumulations are possible in far northwest MA and SVT this morning, but otherwise snow showers will wind down by noon or so, while the rest of us in the valley south and east break into a partly to mostly sunny day.

Today’s big weather news is that westerly gusts of 30-50mph will be developing by later morning and especially in the afternoon as a low level jet streak swings overhead and as highs reach the low 30s to low 40s.

Gusts are already hitting speeds of 30mph in the Berkshires and southwest VT, and up to 52mph out in central and western NY and that’s coming east through the greater WMass region today.

For tonight, it’ll still be breezy but gusts should tamp down to 20-35mph with lows in the upper teens to mid 20s with wind chills down to the single digits in far northwest MA and SVT overnight.

By Sunday, some initial warm advection ahead of our incoming Monday storm system may produce some scattered snow or mixed showers Sunday morning west of I-91 in CT, MA and VT, but otherwise we’ll have a mostly cloudy day with highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s, with clouds thickening up in the evening.

Lows will dip to the 30s, and rain showers will start tracking south to north into our region around or after midnight as a Great Lakes late-winter blizzard cranks up well to our northwest.

Showers will become heavier, and we may see a first pulse of heavy rain and downpours between about 4-8am on early Monday morning, which would slow the commute with some ponding possible and lowered visibility, so keep that in mind.

Highs on Monday will spike well into the 50s and may even reach 60º by the afternoon, and we’ll see periods of showers throughout the day with southerly breezes picking up and gusting to 30mph or so into the afternoon.

It is Monday night into the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning that the peak of the storm will hit with strong gusts of 30-50mph and heavy rain at times, with thunder possible as strong southerly flow pushes rainfall from south to north along the incoming and east side of the storm’s cold front.

This front will sweep the region by Tuesday morning, and we’ll start to dry out with westerly wind gusts of 25-40mph possible by later Tuesday.

Highs on Tuesday will hang in the 30s but partly sunny skies will develop behind the storm, and we’ll enjoy a fair weather period from Tuesday through Friday with Wednesday being the coldest day of that stretch, with unseasonably cold highs only in the 30s, and lows in the upper teens to 20s.

By late week we’ll rebound into the 40s for highs and 20s for lows with no winter storms in sight.

Have a great day!

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

YOUR NUTSHELL:
–Some valley areas got dusted last night, with upslope snow showers continuing in SVT and northwest MA this morning
–A few more scattered valley snow showers or sprinkles possible into mid-day
–Otherwise, partly to mostly sunny skies will develop from the valley east and south
–Cloudier Berkshires up into SVT
–Highs range low 30s in the high terrain to upper 30s to low 40s valley south and east
–Westerly wind gusts will pick up later this morning and peak this afternoon, gusting 30-50mph, so some isolated outages are possible
–Lows tonight in the upper teens to mid 20s with winds gusting to 30mph at times, meaning wind chills could drop into the single digits in the Berkshires, SVT and western hilltowns at times
–On Sunday, some early morning scattered snow or mixed showers are possible, especially west of I-91
–Otherwise, mostly dry and mostly cloudy Sunday with highs upper 30s to mid 40s
–Clouds thicken at night, lows low to mid 30s early, then temps rise with southerly flow
–Scattered showers will develop by or after midnight, and a batch of heavy rain may impact the early morning commute through 8am
–Then scattered showers at times during Monday, breezy out of the south, highs well into the 50s
–Rain increases by later afternoon as do strong southerly gusts picking up to 30-50mph by the night time
–Heavy rain later Monday night with thunder possible
–A cold front sweeps through early Tuesday cutting rain off
–The Berkshires, western hilltowns and SVT may briefly end as snow or a mix
–Tuesday through Friday looks mostly dry, fair, though gusty Tuesday out of the west
–Highs reach the 30s to low 40s Tuesday, but only the 30s on Wednesday which will be the coldest day of the week, before temps rebound into the 40s for highs late week, and with lows in the 20s

YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 7:03am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 6:55pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 11 hours and 52 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 2:08pm this afternoon
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Southwest
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 5:28am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast
–MOON PHASE: Waning Crescent (21.7%)