TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Daily Celestials (Sun/Moon Data)
* Weekly Weather Nutshell
* Morning Discussion
* TIP: Scroll below for sections, or read all
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YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
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STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:20am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 7:24pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 13 hours and 4 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 7:35pm this evening
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Northwest
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 6:40am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Northeast
–MOON PHASE: New Moon *ECLIPSE* 0.2%)
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YOUR WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL
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–Today is the big day for our Total Solar Eclipse!
–You’ll have to get up to northern NY/VT/NH/ME to get into totality for 1-4 minutes depending on your lat/long coordinates
–For us here, we should see some high clouds, especially the farther west and northwest you go (Berks, SVT) but it shouldn’t obscure the eclipse
–No retina burning allowed, people! Don’t stare at it without proper eyewear!
–Eclipse starts around 2:15pm and ends around 4:35pm, with maximal coverage between 3:25-3:30pm
–Temps could dip a bit as solar radiation undergoes a brief wane
–Mostly sunny skies and MILD today with highs in the upper 50s to mid to perhaps upper 60s, with lows in the low 40s
–Everybody is in the 60s tomorrow, with low 70s possible(!) under mostly sunny skies as southwest flow strengthens
–Tuesday night lows will dip into the low 40s as clouds increase
–Wednesday represents a transition day as a warm front approaches with an area of scattered showers likely by mid-day or afternoon
–Highs will be cooler low to mid 50s with some showers at night and lows in the 40s
–By Thursday and Friday, southerly wind gusts pick up ahead of an incoming cold front
–This front will be draped southward off of a low pressure center that will track northeast through the Great Lakes late week
–Gusts could reach 25-40mph at times, and rain will fall heavily at times, especially Thursday night into Friday morning
–Up to 2″ or more rain could fall, so stay tuned for updates
–Highs should reach the 55-60º range in the late week period
–Behind the storm, Saturday looks mostly cloudy and windy with gusts out of the west and northwest up to 30mph or so, and highs in the 40s to low 50s
–Sunday definitely looks like the pick of the weekend with developing sunshine and highs cresting 60º with no big rain makers until late the following week, the way it looks now
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning everybody, Eclipse Day has arrived! Many of us will never see another eclipse of this magnitude in our life times so if you can, SAFELY participate in its viewing here in our region, of up in northern New England where totality will be witnessed.
Details are in the Nutshell above for that as well as our sensible weather through the upcoming weekend.
The main weather stories are the very Spring-y wicked mild temps for today and especially tomorrow when someone is going to crack 70º!
Beyond that, we’ve got more rainfall for the back half of this week, starting with scattered warm frontal showers Wednesday into Wednesday night, and then a stronger slug of rainfall Thursday into Friday as a cold front sweeps our region with southerly wind gusts ahead of the front.
Saturday looks cooler, blustery, and cloudier with a few showers, while Sunday will be milder, likely cresting 60º, and sunnier with a fabulous finish to the weekend!
I am going to take a day to myself tomorrow (need sleep) as our weather is looking warm and calm, but I will be back Wednesday morning first thing.
Please post any safe-to-take pics or vids of your eclipse experience below.
We are cosmic, conscious beings and today is a great day to remind us of that fact!!!!
Have a great day!
>>> BE KIND <<<
“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies: Goddamn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
–Kurt Vonnegut