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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: 6:28am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 5:38pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 11 hours and 10 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 5:22pm this afternoon
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Southwest
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 6:251am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast
–MOON PHASE: New Moon (0.4%)
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A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning folks, thanks for your reports already, and in advance of my publishing this morning weather report.
We’ve generally had slushy films on the ground and semi-melted on car windshields up to full coatings to 2” or so, and potentially more by noon in SVT, so please post your snow totals below, if you have any (which of course many do not living in parts of the Pioneer Valley, southtern CMass into northern CT (save for Litchfield County).
We have a new band of precipitation pushing northeast into the Berkshires, western hillltowns and northwest CT, and that will cause pockets of freezing rain mixed with plain rain, so watch for slick spots and icing this morning.
Temps in the valley have come up above freezing, so we should see mostly rain south of Greenfield, but just be careful out there.
Some areas in the Berkshires, western hills and especially north of the Rt. 2 corridor are indicating temps below freezing, with snow/ice mix there, changing to rain by later morning into the mid-day period as rain showers take over and temps run up into the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Showers will become more isolated by afternoon, and then taper off this evening with some upslope snow showers or flurries possible in the Berkshires overnight as lows drop into the upper 20s to low 30s behind a front.
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Friday looks like a fair weather day, but it should be gusty with northwest winds gusting 20-35mph at times under mostly sunny skies with highs reaching the mid 30s to low 40s for the last day in February.
Clouds will increase at night with lows in the mid to upper 20s as a Clipper low tracks east out of the Great Lakes and towards northern New England once again.
This one will have less moisture available and will be mostly focused along and north of the Rt. 2 corridor in northern MA, SVT and SWNH. Light snow will produce a coating to an inch into Saturday morning in those areas, changing to rain as temps increase due to southerly flow, cresting into the 45-50º range.
Showers should taper off by afternoon, and then a cold front will swing through with temps plummeting over 30 degrees with lows in the teens!
Sunday and Monday will feature much colder temps than we’ve seen recently as Winter reminds us of a solid cold season that is on the wane.
Highs will be in the 20s Sunday with lows in the single digits to low teens, and then highs will climb into the mid 20s to low 30s Monday with lows in the teens. Both days will feature northwest gusts up to 25mph or so.
By Tuesday, we warm up into the upper 30s to mid 40s with another fair weather day, which will precede the mid-week period as a strong storm cranks up into the Great Lakes, sending a period of substantial rainfall our way by Wednesday with highs cresting 50º as Spring surges.
By late week some lake effect or upslope snow showers may setup behind that system’s cold front as it swings through New England.
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