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: 7:17am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:24pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 7 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 1:02pm this afternoon
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Southwest
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 4:19am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast
–MOON PHASE: Waning Crescent (18.9%)
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A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning, folks, I hope you all had a good day with friends and family yesterday last night, or if you were alone were at least able to relax and hopefully focus on doing something you enjoyed or brought a little peace to your moments as we move through this deep dark dearth-of-light period.
This morning, we’re waking up to very cold morning with temps in the single digits to teens, and we can expect that for one more night tonight with similarly cold low temps.
We’ve got strong high pressure centered over northern VT (chart attached) which will slowly track south and southeast through New England and out to sea by this weekend, putting us into a milder, return southerly / southwesterly flow that will produce milder temps to close out 2024.
Backing up, for our Thursday we’ll see mostly sunny skies with high pressure and highs in the low to mid 30s, and after lows tonight in the singles to low teens under clear skies, we’ll pop back up into the low to mid 30s under sunny skies for Friday. Friday night lows will be milder, hanging in the low 20s with clouds increasing.
By Saturday, our transition to wetter, cloudier and milder weather begins.
With high pressure to our south at the start of the weekend and a storm system developing near the Great Lakes, we will be fully in a southerly flow which means milder highs either side of 40º on Saturday.
In addition, some scattered showers look to develop ahead of the warm front which moves through on Sunday with some periods of light to moderate rain.
These Saturday night into early morning scattered showers may meet with freezing temps in the high terrain overnight, causing some slippery travel so I will continue to update on this piece (well, all the pieces, really).
Sunday highs will rise well into the 40s with some warm frontal showers around, and lows on Sunday night will hang near 40º as a cold front begins to sweep towards New England Sunday night into Monday with a period of heavier rainfall.
We will not keep this meager snow blanket through into 2025, that’s for sure.
The front moves through Monday with highs in the 40s, and then on New Year’s Eve Day we should see a brief period of high pressure bringing some sunshine, again with highs in the mid 40s.
New Year’s Eve (for now) looks dry with lows in the 30s but clouds will be increasing, and as of now a New Year’s Day storm continues to be signaled, and one that could bring some high terrain wintry precipitation with valley rains, but that’s just the early look, so stay tuned for updates.
Have a great day!
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