6:55A-WED: HAZY, HOT AND HUMID TODAY AND TOMORROW, WHICH CONCLUDES WITH SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS, BUT STORMS DON’T LOOK VERY POTENT, SO THAT’S GOOD NEWS… DRIER BUT WARM FRIDAY, CLOUDIER BUT MUCH COOLER OVER THE WEEKEND, WITH SUNDAY NOW LOOKING SUNNIER THAN SATURN DAY… A PERIOD OF UNSETTLED WEATHER LATER SUNDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY THEN WE MAY START SHIFTING INTO A NEW PATTERN AWAY FROM SUMMER CONDITIONS… IT’S NOT A LOCK, BUT SIGNALS ARE SHOWING UP…
Good morning everybody, I hope you awake with pep in your step, love from above, and that you get out of bed with Queen’s “We Are The Champions” ringing in your head as you walk out the door.
Or at least I hope you get some coffee or tea in you, and that you’re able to ambulate, or have the strength to get your body to where it needs to be, and do what it needs to do today.
Let’s jump into the quick story, a word from our sponsor, and the discussion for our upcoming WMass regional weather conditions.
QUICK STORY
–Patchy morning fog in the Berkshires and eastern Franklin County up into southwest NH/Brattleboro dissipates
–Mostly sunny skies develop with highs mid 80s to low 90s
–More patchy fog tomorrow morning, with highs upper 80s to possibly mid 90s, hazy, hot and humid
–Afternoon showers, perhaps a thunderstorm
–Friday warm, 80s, drying during the day as dewpoints crash
–Cool Friday night, a few showers possible, dewpoints 50s
–Weekend looks mostly cloudy and cooler, low humidity, a few showers possible, but mostly dry, more sun possible Sunday
–Unsettled Sunday night into Monday as a front passes through as a warm front then a cold front, then we dry out Tuesday forward
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DISCUSSION
We have a pair of very summery days ahead, so if you’re a summah lovah, I would be sure to get out and soak up this heat and humidity, because I’m starting to see potential for a pattern change. Of course, nothing I set in stone, but it IS late August after all, so our time is fleeting for #Summer.
High pressure in the western Atlantic will pump the heat and humidity into the region today and tomorrow, with waning impacts on Friday, which will still be quite warm before we cool down and likely cloud up over the weekend.
No Heat Advisories have been posted today, but heat index values will be up in the low to mid 90s, and in the mid to upper 90s tomorrow/Thursday, so we’ll have hot and humid heat in the house – hydrate and dress accordingly.
Mostly sunny skies rule, though some haze today with lighter amounts of western wildfire smoke will be noticed aloft.
Lows will be in the 60s to near 70 and it will be quite humid over the next 48 hours.
Tomorrow late afternoon and evening will produce some isolated to scattered showers and a few thunderstorms, but because strongest shear and instability will be north of us, and also due to less moisture available aloft, we SHOULD avoid severe thunderstorms, though one or two may produce some gusty winds.
Friday is a drying day, with lowering humidity, but still quite warm, with highs in the low to mid 80s with mostly sunny skies, and a Friday night fit for raising all the windows as temps drop into the 55-60º range with low humidity, ahhhhhhhh.
The weekend will see that Thursday afternoon front settled and stall out south of us, and a few weak low pressure areas may ripple east along it with a few showers at times, but mostly dry and mostly cloudy conditions, and COOLER, with highs only in the 70s both days, and maybe only in the upper 60s in the high terrain of the Berkshires, SVT and western hilltowns Saturday! Lows will be around 60º.
Sunday night into Tuesday looks a bit showery as that front lifts north as a warm front through the region, and Monday especially looks inclement, but not a washout.
By Tuesday, strong low pressure north of us races east through Quebec, and sweeps a cold front through the region, and it looks like big cool Canadian high pressure builds in behind, which could begin a period of us slowly easing into early Autumn pattern.
After all, a week from today is the start of Meteorological Fall.
Have a great day!