>>> YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS <<<
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 7:00am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:19pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 19 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 12:00pm this afternoon
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Northwest
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 10:15pm tonight
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Northeast
–MOON PHASE: Waning Gibbous (66.1%)
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>>> DAVE’S WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL <<<
–Scattered showers or periods of rain develop this morning
–Rain becomes steadier and heavier at times afternoon, before tapering off around dinner time
–Breezy out of the east and northeast today and tonight
–Rain may mix at times with snow or sleet in northern MA (Rt. 2 corridor on north into Bennington, Brattleboro, Keene areas)
–Rain mixes with and should change to snow in the southern Green Mountains of VT and northern and northeastern Cheshire County above 1500 or 2000 feet (A coating to 3″ possible)
–We taper to drizzle, patchy fog, and a few overnight rain or snow showers, highs in the low 40s today, lows mid 30s
–Monday is the last mild day for a bit with highs in the 40s, but temps will be dropping behind a cold front in the afternoon
–The Monday through Thursday period looks partly sunny to mostly cloudy at times
–Some lake effect or upslope snow showers are possible Monday night in the Berkshires and SVT, coatings possible
–Cold Tuesday through Thursday with highs in the 30s and lows in the teens and 20s
–Some more rain or snow showers are possible mid-week with a shortwave passage
–Milder by late week into the weekend with potential for a bigger storm next Sunday, but before we get into the details let’s check a note from our local weekend sponsor, #GerardGhazeyBatesPC, an estate planning law firm in Northampton, MA.
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>>> MORNING DISCUSSION <<<
Good morning everybody, we’ve got our storm pressing into NY state today, which is sliding showers into our region this morning, sometimes steadier, sometimes light and drizzly, with patchy fog. This should continue until late morning to early afternoon when heavier/steadier rainfall should develop across the WMass region.

As this occurs, secondary low pressure will develop southeast of the Cape and in conjunction with a high well north of us, help to pull enough cold air into VT and NH to change rain to snow and/or sleet at elevations above 1500 feet.

While some snow/sleet may mix into the high terrain of far northern WMass and CMass, it is the southern Green Mountains and parts of SWNH that could see a slushy coating to a few inches of snow.

South of the VT-NH/MA state line we’ll taper precipitation off by around dinner time, but it could continue in SVT and SWNH. This is where some surprise snow accumulations to the upside could occur if that precip persists long enough as we get colder up that way.

Highs today will only reach the upper 30s to mid 40s and then drop into the low to mid 30s overnight. East and northeasterly gusts over 20mph are possible with breezy conditions at times.

Any Monday morning isolated showers quit, and then we’ll climb into the 40s for highs before a cold front slices through the region and opens up northwesterly flow.

This will drop temps below freezing Monday night, and that flow will also promote some lake effect snow shower activity that may reach the Berkshires and SVT overnight.

Tuesday through Thursday looks to be dominated by high pressure with a shortwave swinging through mid week with potential for more instability snow showers, but nothing of significance at the moment.

Highs will reach the 30s across the greater WMass region with lows in the teens and 20s.

The light snow potential for Friday is waning at this time, but I will keep an eye on it. Certainly, we should become a bit milder by late week, and then I will be watching a storm signal for next Sunday evening into Monday which could produce a major storm of some precip type, as a potent upper low looks to swing into the center of the country by the start of the weekend, so stay tuned!

Have a great day!

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>>> BE KIND <<<
“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies: Goddamn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
–Kurt Vonnegut