My 9th Edition, 2023 Weather Wall Calendars are still available if you’d like one for another room of your home, or office, etc:
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DAVE’S WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL
–Mild southwest flow dominates through Thursday
–Variable skies today with sun and clouds, milder
–Clouds increase tonight and tomorrow, with afternoon scattered showers
–Patchy fog later tonight into New Year’s Eve
–Rain may come in two bouts, an earlier evening session with a potential lull toward midnight, then heaviest/final burst of rain into New Year’s Morning
–Drying New Year’s Day in the afternoon
–Fair weather Monday and Tuesday, mild
–Tuesday night into Thursday looks showery, very mild Wednesday with spike above 60º!
–Colder by late week into the weekend, can’t rule out wintry precip for the high elevations

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***DHTWN DAILY WEATHER REPORT***
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NWS ALERTS
–None

DHTWN REMINDER
–The odds of being a human is 1 in 400,000 billion… make it count, even in a small way (see Kurt Vonnegut quote at end of post)

DAILY CELESTIAL (STAR):
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 7:18am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:27pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 9 minutes

NIGHTLY CELESTIAL (MOON):
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 12:03pm this afternoon
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 1:11am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: West
–MOON SET DIRECTION: East
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Gibbous (55.0%)
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DAILY TERRESTRIAL (ZoneCast)
ZONE 1 (Northern Region)
Southern VT, Southwest NH, N. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Upper 40s to Low 50s
–Low Temps: Mid to Upper 30s
–Wind: Light Southwesterly
–Skies: Variable
–Precipitation: None, patchy fog tonight

ZONE 2 (Central Region)
WMass, N. CMass, N. Litchfield County, C./S. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Low to Mid 50s
–Low Temps: Mid to Upper 30s
–Wind: Light Southwesterly
–Skies: Variable
–Precipitation: None, patchy fog tonight

ZONE 3 (Southern Region)
S. CMass, S. Litchfield County, NC.CT, & NE.CT
–High Temps: Mid 50s
–Low Temps: Upper 30s to Low 40s
–Wind: Light Southwesterly
–Skies: Variable
–Precipitation: None, patchy fog tonight
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MORNING DISCUSSION
Good morning everybody, we’ve got strengthening milder southwest flow being driven into New England this late-week period ahead of an incoming frontal system that will push some showery conditions into our hills and dales by tomorrow afternoon, night, and the morning of New Year’s Day.

The milder air is evidenced by a temperature inversion this morning with the SVT mountain peaks in the mid to upper 40s while it’s in the upper 20s to mid 30s in northern MA and southwest NH!

As this milder air overrides cooler air at the surface, we get periods of clouds like many of us are seeing this morning, and that will continue off and on today, with sunny periods mixed in – a mixed sky day is expected.

Highs will reach the upper 40s to mid 50s, and lows tonight will dip into the mid 30s to low 40s with patchy fog expected.

For New Year’s Eve day, we’ll be clouding up, and see scattered showers developing by afternoon into the evening. Highs will reach the upper 40s to low 50s with increased humidity and patchy fog as a result.

For New Year’s Eve itself, we may get lucky and see a lull in the action sometime before midnight with a few showers around, with heavier rains by or just after midnight.

However, with patchy fog expected, take it easy on the roads as any rain and fog will combine to slow travel down, and be extra alert to any drunken boneheads while you’re at it (sadly, I was once one of those DBs waaaaay back in the day – today marks 14 years sober for me, actually).

Lows will be mild and above freezing, dipping into the upper 30s to mid 40s.

Showers continue New Year’s morning, and then quit by noon with some partly sunny skies possible by end of the day, with highs in the 45-50º range. West winds will gust behind the front up to 25mph, and lows will drop down to the upper 20s to low 30s.

Monday and Tuesday and look generally fair with partly sunny skies and highs in the 45-50º range with lows in the 30s as brief subsidence works in ahead of the next frontal wave.

Tuesday night into Thursday looks showery and mild, with highs in the low 60s by Wednesday, and then the 50s on Thursday with a frontal passage expected.

Behind this system, we will see a breakdown of the trough-west / ridge-east pattern that has fostered such mild conditions, with colder temps expected late week into next weekend, with cold looking to hang in there the following week, but that’s putting the Grinch-dog before the overstuffed 20-foot tall Grinch-sled!

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AND REMEMBER…
“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