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Dave Hayes The Weather Nut Merch / Apparel (ends 12/22)
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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: 7:14am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:20pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 6 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 10:41am this morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Northwest
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 8:58pm tonight
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Northeast
–MOON PHASE: Waning Gibbous (81.0%)
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A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning folks, if you were out pre-dawn you saw skies breaking up in the valley with clouds tracking northwest to southeast with our waning gibbous moon peeking through.
Temps were mostly above freezing, but some folks in southern VT and parts of WMass had settled into the upper 20s to low 30s so some isolated black ice is possible.
Otherwise, we’re breezy out of the northwest with winds gusting 15-25mph at times under partly sunny skies with highs mainly in the 30s with some low 40s in the southern valley and northern CT.
High pressure moves through the region tonight, and lows will dip to the upper teens to mid 20s as clouds increase ahead of an upper trough that will be transferring energy to surface low off of the southern Virginia coastline for Friday.
This interaction between the upper low and shortwave energy diving southeast through the Ohio Valley and the developing surface low set to graze eastern New England and pound Nova Scotia with a raging nor’easter will help produce some modest/broad lift over parts of the greater WMass region, and should develop some scattered snow showers in our region.
Remember, scattered means just that: not everybody sees one, at least that’s the way it looks now.
Highs tomorrow will reach the low to mid 30s, and I can’t rule out a wider spread period or periods of light snow tomorrow, so I will be monitoring this.
In addition, the coastal storm may bloom its precip shield more westerly, and that could graze eastern Worcester County and northeast CT with a period of steady light snow Friday night, with continued scattered snow showers in the rest of the greater WMass region with lows in the teens to 20s.
By Saturday, the upper low swings through with another shortwave and a cold front with more potential for scattered snow showers, and highs only in the 20s to low 30s (and that’s BEFORE the cold front!).
The Arctic front swings through and we dry out Saturday night, but very cold temps empty into the region on northwest wind gusts up to 25mph, with lows truly crashing into the single digits, with wind chills below zero in some spots.
Sunday and Sunday night is peak cold under sunny skies with highs in the teens and lows either side of 0º (below and above zero).
Monday is cold, too, with sunny skies and highs in the upper teens to mid 20s as high pressure moves through the region, with lows in the single digits to low teens.
Did I say it was gonna get cold?
We haven’t seen cold in December like this in quite some time, actually.
By Tuesday, we should see clouds developing and we have the potential for a couple of weak Clipper systems that could move through our region Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with some periods of light snow, but that’s a ways off, so I will update as we get closer!
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