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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: 7:10am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:18pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 8 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 2:34pm this afternoon
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Northeast
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 6:37am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Northwest
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Gibbous (95.1%)
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning folks, we have a very cold start out there with temps in the teens to mid 20s as a giant high pressure cell that extends from the western Great Lakes down into the southeast U.S. pushes east toward New England.
This high pressure will continue to slacken westerly wind with a few gusts to 20mph possible today, but more so it will produce a pair of similarly-conditioned days/nights, including mostly sunny skies, mostly clear nights, highs in the mid 20s to low 30s, and lows in the upper singles to mid teens.
This means that the peak of the Geminid Meteor Shower will feature good viewing conditions, and with up to 120 meteors per hour and a mostly full moon, it should be a most celestial evening, albeit very cold!
Once we move into Sunday, clouds will start to slowly build, so I expect more of a partly sunny day with highs in the low to mid 30s, and lows in the 20s as clouds thicken ahead of a weak system that will bring early Monday morning light snow or mix, changing to rain showers by mid-day.
Highs on Monday will rise up into the low to mid 40s as southerly flow develops. Clouds will stick around Monday night with lows in the 30s, and then showers should push back in early on Tuesday as a stronger frontal system approaches from the west.
This will be a stronger rain producer, but not like what we just saw a couple of days ago. Still, it will help with drought mitigation, which we are still dealing with from our excessively dry Autumn of 2024.
With strong southerly flow, highs should come up into the low to mid 50s on Tuesday, and then drop into the upper 30s to mid 40s by mid-week.
Beyond that the late week period is looking uncertain right now. There are signals for late week or weekend storminess, and cold air will be making comeback. If the storm and cold energies align, I can’t rule out a winter storm late week into next weekend, but more time is needed to analyze and refine that part of the forecast.
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