Western Mass Regional Weather for December 12, 2024

[7:12AM, 12/12/24] BLUSTERY TODAY WITH A FEW SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS BY MID-DAY OR SO… COLD AND FAIR TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT… CLOUDS INCREASE SUNDAY, WITH PERIODS OF SHOWERS (WITH SOME SNOW AT ONSET) SOMETIME BETWEEN SUNDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY NIGHT WITH A COUPLE OF SYSTEMS/FRONTS… LATE WEEK WINTER STORM SIGNAL IS ON MY RADAR… LESS THAN ONE BOX OF MY 2025 WEATHER CALENDARS REMAIN… THEY MAKE GREAT GIFTS AND BRING OUR BEAUTIFUL WMASS INSIDE… GRAB 1 OR 2 BEFORE THEY’RE GONE…

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Daily Celestials (Sun/Moon Data)
* Sponsor Note
* 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: 7:09am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:18pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 9 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 1:58pm this afternoon
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Northeast
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 5:18am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Northwest
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Gibbous (89.0%)
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning folks, our storm is a thing of the past, and for as rainy as it was, precipitation amounts were a bit less than expected for some of us, and the big story was the lack of wind due to the low level jet streak forming more to the east than expected. At one point there were 20000 or so outages in southeast MA.

Wind was always going to be east of I-91 as I had mentioned, but we didn’t gust past 40mph even in areas where I thought it would go to 50mph.

If you live in the Berkshires, northwest hills, Taconics or Bennington County VT let me know if you saw any light snow accumulations. I know that Williamstown, MA saw a coating overnight.

Waking up, it’s a new air mass in town, and it will be blustery with cold advection producing highs in the 30s with westerly winds gusting 20-35mph at times today. Partly to mostly sunny skies should develop, and we’ll see some scattered snow showers with a disturbance moving through by this early afternoon.

For tonight, a lighter west wind continues, and it will be COLD with lows in the mid to upper teens under partly cloudy skies in the hills with more clearing in the valley.

Massive and potent high pressure builds east into the region Friday and Saturday, which will feature mostly sunny skies, lighter winds, and colder temps with highs only in the mid 20s to low 30s both days, and lows in the upper single digits to mid teens both nights under clear skies.

By Sunday, high pressure will continue east through the region, and we’ll start to get on its western flank where a milder flow will begin to develop.

I expect more of a partly sunny to mostly cloudy day with highs coming up into the mid 30s, so still chilly, but not as cold as the previous two days.

By Sunday night into Monday, a disturbance looks to move east out of the Ohio Valley and may push some snow into our region late Sunday night with lows in the 20s.

By Monday, a milder southerly flow will develop and turn any snow over to rain most likely with highs in the 40s. Some light accumulation is possible overnight.

Then we’ll see a second frontal system connected to a low center that will pass to our north move through with more rain showers by Tuesday with highs in the upper 40s to low 50s. Behind that, our seesaw weather continues as we cool back down and start looking toward the late-week period for some winter storm potential. It’s an early signal, but I will keep an eye on it for you.

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By |2024-12-12T07:17:23-05:00December 12, 2024|Current Forecast|

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