Dave Hayes The Weather Nut Merch / Apparel (ends 12/22)
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* Daily Celestials (Sun/Moon Data)
* Sponsor Section
* Morning Discussion
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YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
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STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 7:11am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:19pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 8 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 3:21pm this afternoon
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Northeast
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 7:49am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Northwest
–MOON PHASE: Full Cold Moon (99.8%)
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning folks, well here we are as New Englanders once again rising up and leaning into another very cold morning. How many times have we done this? I love New Englanders, but we can be a stoic and rather tough bunch.
Gee, I wonder why that is, in part?
It’s because of weather like this!! LOL
A lifetime I’ve hurling yourself into the cold for a third of every year is going to build up some emotional crust, if you catch my snowy drift.
Anyway, I’m glad I’m still here, I’m glad you’re still here, and with some wintry signals looming for the last week in December into the first part of January, I imagine there will be plenty to talk about.
In fact, there already IS plenty to talk about that’s notable weather-wise, so let’s jump in.
As for this morning, it’s freakin’ cold!!
Lows plummeted into the single digits to teens, and I bet one of our friends in Chester, MA touched the zero bound (let me know, Marcia!).
We have massive and as potent a high pressure cell as I’ve ever seen over us right now, centered up near northern VT (1048mb, for you weather nuts at home).
When that happens, the air is mostly still with perhaps some locally light & variable wind, and we get clear skies during the day (highs will only reach the mid 20s to low 30s today with full sun), and maximized radiational cooling at night (with temps again dropping into the single digits to low teens).
Sunday starts off sunny as high pressure drifts east toward Atlantic Canada, but some mid to high clouds will build during the day. So, we’ll be mostly sunny early with perhaps more partly sunny skies or filtered sunshine by afternoon into the evening.
Highs will be a bit milder, but still unseasonably cold settling in the low to mid 30s, and dropping to the low to mid 20s with skies becoming overcast later Sunday night.
We have a disturbance that will be working east out of the Ohio Valley into New England, acting as the leading edge for milder air, a sort of mid-level warm front.
This will send moisture into New England, but it will be forced up and over the existing cold dome in place, which is called “overrunning”, which is typical with warm frontal passages.
It will be very dry at first, so it may take some time for snow and/or freezing rain to reach the ground, but generally speaking I believe we’ll see snow showers north of the Pike, with more of a light freezing rain or freezing drizzle set up south of the Pike, and especially in northern CT.
This could have some minor to moderate impacts to the morning commute, and I will update you on this tomorrow in case the freezing rain signal “stands up” more, as that would be more of a problem then some periods of light snow with light accumulations possible.
That system works through Monday morning, changing to all rain with milder highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s. We’ll get a lull by later afternoon into the evening, but then activity associated with an incoming cold front will push more cold rain back into the region late Monday night into Tuesday as the front passes through.
It could get a bit gusty early Tuesday with southerly flow developing ahead of the front, and highs will rise up into the upper 40s to mid 50s for a day as the front passes through. Up to half an inch of rain is possible. Lows will dip to the mid to upper 20s as we dry out, with some black ice possible.
The mid to late week period carries uncertainty with it, and there is a potential for a winter storm, or snow high terrain / rain in the valley setup for late Wednesday night into Thursday or Friday depending on streamflows and how things setup in the days ahead.
It will be cooling down, and I do think Wednesday itself will be mostly dry with more clouds than sunshine, but I will update you as we move into early next week as to what the late week period holds.
Whatever storm activity develops around here later week, it appears to be on the leading edge of colder air that more likely than not will arrive by next weekend.
As the Winter Solstice approaches, our local meteorology seems to be in lockstep with our heliospheric astronomy.
And if that’s not enough of a tongue twister, be sure to check my even more sophisticated daily haiku below ;-)
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HAIKU OF THE DAY
It’s wicked cold out
Making most put on a pout
It’s wicked cold out
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
― Joseph Campbell