TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Daily Celestials (Sun/Moon Data)
* Weekly Weather Nutshell
* Morning Discussion
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YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
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STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:48am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 5:21pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 10 hours and 33 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 11:29pm tonight
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Northwest
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 9:43am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Northeast
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent (27.3%)
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YOUR WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL
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–Overnight snow showers have been winding down this early morning, but wind gusts continue
–Northwesterly gusts will blow 25-40mph at times today, and slacken to up to 25mph or so tonight
–Mostly sunny today with highs in the upper 20s to low 30s and wind chills in the teens at times
–Lows tonight in the mid to upper teens under clear skies with wind gusting between 20-30mph with wind chills in the single digits
–Thursday starts off sunny, and then clouds up by afternoon as a warm front draped off of our incoming Clipper low approaches from the west
–Highs will be in the low to mid 30s
–Light accumulating snow breaks out after sunset across the region, and should quit before dawn
–Snow may fall moderate to briefly heavy along and north of the Rt. 2 corridor, where orographic uplift (i.e. the presence of mountains forcing moist air skyward, which condenses it into precipitation) may produce a bit higher accumulations there
–Generally a coating to 2″ is expected for much of the region, but that spine of the southern Green Mtns. that extends south into NE Berkshire County and western Franklin County could see 2-5″ of fluffy snow
–Strong winds develop on the backside of this potent but tiny wave, and will gust 30-50mph on Friday, highest in the higher elevations
–Highs will reach the low to mid 30s with lows in the low 20s
–A second wave will pass to our south this time for Saturday, and looks more disorganized
–It should produce some scattered snow showers in our region, and may coat a few areas south of the Pike, but not much more than that
–Highs both weekend days are generally in the low to mid 30s, but Sunday is certainly the weekend pick with more sunshine
–Lows both weekend nights will dip into the teens Saturday night and upper teens to low 20s Sunday night
–Fair weather moves in next week with highs in the 30s, and the next storm chance late in the week
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning everybody, the main story or stories through the weekend is that we’re likely to see two light snow events (Thursday night and Saturday) and two periods of gusty, blustery winds (today and Friday). That’s the broad brush look, topped off with Sunday being the weekend pick given sunshine expected vs. Saturday which looks cloudy with periods of snow showers, especially south of the Pike.

A few sporadic outages have been seen in Hampshire County this morning, and we can’t rule out a bit more in the way of isolated power disruption given gusts to 40mph or so today, but I am a bit more concerned about Friday when gusts should be reaching speeds up to 50mph, especially in the Berkshires. That could be a day with more in the way of outages scattered about, due to wind.

In terms of precipitation, Thursday evening after sunset is when we next expect light snow to arrive as a negatively tilting small Clipper system drives into northern New England.

This will send its warm front our way, producing a very mini-thump of snow as moist milder air rides up and over cold-enough air in place to produce light accumulating snow Thursday night, and quitting sometime after midnight and before Friday’s dawn.

As mentioned in the Nutshell above, generally folks should see a coating to 2″, but I would not be surprised if Winter Weather Advisories go up for western Windham County VT into Bennington County, and perhaps even western Franklin County and the northern Berkshires.

This is because those areas are closer to the stronger dynamics of our little storm, and the snow will be much fluffier, with a higher snow to liquid ratio (SLR), which is why I think parts of those areas could see 2-5″ of fluff.

After that, our windy Friday arrives as previously discussed (with mostly sunny skies, I might add), and then we turn to small storm passing to our south on Saturday.

How close it passes to our coast will be the (minor) difference between a coating to as much as an inch of snow along and south of the Pike with scattered coatings north of there, or just a period of scattered snow showers with little to no accumulation, and I’m leaning toward the latter at this time.

Sunday is the weekend pick with sunshine, and this fair and seasonable weather should last into early next week with milder temps in the 30s to near 40º for highs and partly to mostly sunny skies.

Have a great day!

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