[TUES-7:05AM] DID YOU SEE ANY SNOW OR SLEET? OUR STORM WINDS DOWN THIS MORNING… INSTABILITY SHOWERS OF EITHER RAIN, GRAUPEL OR SNOW POSSIBLE DURING THE DAY AND/OR THIS EVENING… QUITE WINDY TODAY WITH WINDS VEERING AROUND FROM THE WEST AND BLOWING 30-45MPH AT TIMES… BREEZY TONIGHT, SHOWERS END… BREEZY WEDNESDAY THEN WIND SLACKENS AND WE ENTER A QUIESCENT WEATHER PATTERN… NO BIG STORMS IN SIGHT, MILD TEMPS EXPECTED INTO 60S BY WEEK’S END…

TODAY’S DATE: Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Good morning everybody, the wind didn’t come up too much in the valley floor, but max gusts of up to 45mph were reported in a number of towns overnight, and gusts are still kicking to 40mph in the Keene/Monadnock region of southwest NH early this morning. I’ve seen reports of 5″ of snow in Readsboro, VT, and would love to hear any accumulation reports or snow pics, if you live in the high terrain. We’ve got an instability day on the way with clouds, a few showers of various precip types, and plenty of wind as the storm runs up the west side of the CT River Valley this morning, but before we dive into all of the weather details below, let’s check a note from our local and delicious sponsor, #TandemBagelCo, with a new location in West Springfield, MA.
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***DHTWN WEATHER REPORT***
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NWS ALERTS
None

DAILY CELESTIAL: SUN
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:03am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 7:36pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 13 hours and 33 minutes

DAILY CELESTIAL: MOON
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 11:31pm tonight
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 8:31am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Southeast
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Southwest
–MOON PHASE: Waning Gibbous 90.6%
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DAILY TERRESTRIAL (ZoneCast)
ZONE 1 (Northern Region)
Southern VT, Southwest NH, N. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Low to Mid 40s
–Low Temps: Low to Mid 30s
–Wind: Winds veer our of the west and gust 30-45mph by afternoon, breezy tonight
–Skies: Mostly Cloudy
–Precipitation: Showers of rain, sleet and snow wind down this morning, then pop-up afternoon showers of rain, snow, or graupel, ending this evening

ZONE 2 (Central Region)
WMass, N. CMass, N. Litchfield County, C./S. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Mid 40s to Low 50s
–Low Temps: Low to Mid 30s
–Wind: Winds veer our of the west and gust 30-45mph by afternoon, breezy tonight
–Skies: Mostly Cloudy
–Precipitation: Showers of rain and sleet wind down this morning, then pop-up afternoon showers of rain, snow, and/or graupel, ending this evening

ZONE 3 (Southern Region)
S. CMass, S. Litchfield County, NC.CT, & NE.CT
–High Temps: Low 50s
–Low Temps: Mid 30s
–Wind: Winds veer our of the west and gust 25-35mph by afternoon, breezy tonight
–Skies: Mostly Cloudy, a few sunny breaks possible
–Precipitation: Showers of rain wind down this morning, then pop-up afternoon showers of mostly rain with graupel possible ending this evening
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OUR UPCOMING WEATHER
–Our overnight storm is tracking quickly north into WMass, punching its dry slot into the region as it does, and cutting off precipitation
–There will be some occasional light showers or drizzle this early morning, and some sleet pellets may still be falling in some high terrain areas
–Please let me know how much snow you saw by reporting below and/or posting pics if you live at elevation and have a white coating or blanket on the ground
–As our storm tracks north and away today, winds will veer from the east and southeast out of the southwest and west
–With high pressure building southwest of us, a pressure gradient will form and help generate gusts of 30-45mph today
–Highs will only reach the low 40s to low 50s today, and we’ll see mostly cloudy skies with scattered instability showers in the form of rain, and possibly graupel
–Snow showers will also be possible, mainly later in the day/early evening in the Berkshires/SVT
–For tonight, mostly cloudy skies will continue with lows in the low to mid 30s as any showers end with time
–Winds will still gust 15-30mph overnight
–For Wednesday, we enter a period of meteorological quiescence with high pressure more firmly establishing itself, and producing mostly sunny skies with highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s
–We will still have breezy conditions, gusting to 30mph, but that should slacken by evening, and with clear skies and dry air, we could see one more night of freezing temperatures with lows in the upper 20s to low 30s due to radiational cooling
–Thursday is milder with highs in the mid 50s to low 60s under mostly cloudy skies and a spot shower possible late with a moisture-starved frontal passage #NoBigWhoop
–Thursday night lows will drop into the low 40s
–Friday through Sunday look generally fair with partly to mostly sunny skies and highs in the mid 50s to low to mid 60s from north to south
–Hopefully this will be a nice long dry stretch ahead, but first we gotta get through an instability day today
–However, the worst of the storm is through the region, and any snow that did accumulate will not be long for this world

Have a great day!