Good morning folks, we’ve got a very humid start to the day with a hot one on the way, followed by scattered showers and thunderstorms overnight, drier and cooler air to end the week, and a warming weekend with Sunday showers possible, but before we dive into all of the weather details below, let’s check a note from our local and delicious sponsor, #TandemBagelCo, with their newest location in West Springfield, MA.
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***DHTWN DAILY WEATHER REPORT***
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NWS ALERTS
–None

DHTWN REMINDER
–The odds of being a human is 1 in 400 trillion… make it count, even in a small way (see Kurt Vonnegut quote at end of post)

DAILY CELESTIAL (STAR):
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:13am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 7:27pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 13 hours and 12 minutes

DAILY CELESTIAL (MOON):
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 9:11pm tonight
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 10:35am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent 9.7%
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DAILY TERRESTRIAL (ZoneCast)
ZONE 1 (Northern Region)
Southern VT, Southwest NH, N. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Generally 85-90º
–Low Temps: Mid to Upper 60s
–Humidity: Very humid, dewpoints upper 60s to low 70s
–Wind: South-southwesterly wind gusting 15-25mph at times
–Skies: Partly to mostly sunny
–Precipitation: Scattered showers and thunderstorms may arrive as early as late afternoon into the evening, into the night, gone by early Wednesday morning

ZONE 2 (Central Region)
WMass, N. CMass, N. Litchfield County, C./S. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Upper 80s to Low 90s
–Low Temps: Mid to Upper 60s
–Humidity: Very humid, dewpoints upper 60s to low 70s
–Wind: South-southwesterly wind gusting 15-25mph at times
–Skies: Partly to mostly sunny
–Precipitation: Scattered showers and thunderstorms may arrive as early as late afternoon into the evening in the northern Berkshires/Taconics, but around or after sunset elsewhere, lasting through the night, gone by early Wednesday morning

ZONE 3 (Southern Region)
S. CMass, S. Litchfield County, NC.CT, & NE.CT
–High Temps: Mid to Upper 80s
–Low Temps: Mid to Upper 60s
–Humidity: Very humid, dewpoints upper 60s to low 70s
–Wind: South-southwesterly wind gusting 15-25mph at times
–Skies: Partly to mostly sunny
–Precipitation: Scattered showers and thunderstorms arrive around or after sunset, lasting through the night, gone by early Wednesday morning
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WEATHER REPORT
Good morning everybody, I’m going to list our salient weather details out in double–dashes below:

–We have a negatively tilted upper level trough sweeping east through the Great Lakes and into New England
–With high pressure southeast, we’ve had a southerly flow develop through the region, which has advected very humid air into our region
–Dewpoints are in the upper 60s to low 70s this morning, and temps are in the upper 60s to mid 70s, quite warm
–Any low clouds will burn off into a partly to mostly sunny day with highs mostly in the upper 80s to low 90s
–Given high humidity dewpoints in the upper 60s to low 70s, heat indices will rise into the low to mid 90s, so while no Heat Advisories have been hoisted, those living especially in the CT River Valley from about Northampton south to Hartford will see a heat surge today
–Meanwhile, we’re in a pre-frontal trough, which is a somewhat unstable zone east of the incoming cold front, which will probably form some scattered showers or a t-storm in SVT or the northern Berkshires between 4-8pm
–For most/the rest of us, we will see scattered showers and thunderstorms track through the region after sunset tonight, and a couple of storms may be strong with gusty winds or small hail

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–Dewpoints will be high in the upper 60s to low 70s, with similar air temp lows, so expect some patchy fog too, and we can’t even rule out some ponding on road ways in any downpours
–Showers clear the region by early Wednesday morning, and a mostly sunny day will develop
–Highs Wednesday will reach the upper 70s to low 80s, though it will be humid into the afternoon, before much drier air works in by evening and overnight
–Lows will plunge into the mid to upper 50s, and dewpoints down into the 40s and 50s, so get ready to open those windows again!
–Thursday will be autumnal with sunshine and highs in the low to mid 70s and lows in the upper 40s to low 50s, with a repeat for Friday, but you’ll need to add about 5º to those temps
–High pressure dives northwest to southeast through the region, and after northerly component flows dominate the late-week period, southerly flow resumes this weekend and we warm back up
–We’ll see mostly sunny skies this weekend with highs well into the 80s and lows in the 50s to low 60s, with some showers possible by Sunday later afternoon or night with another cold front slicing into the region
–This front will drop temps on Labor Day back into the 70s under partly sunny skies

I hope you have a great day!

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AND REMEMBER…
“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