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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Daily Celestials (Sun/Moon Data)
* Sponsor Note
* Morning Discussion
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YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
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STAR:
–OUR STAR RISES AT: 7:16am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:44pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 28 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 8:39am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Northwest
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 6:39pm this evening
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Northeast
–MOON PHASE: Waning Gibbous (97.2%)
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A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning, everybody, we had some light snow showers and flurries in the western high terrain of southwest VT, the Berkshires, Taconics and northwest CT overnight, and while some of that continues this early morning it will continue to dissipate.
In its stead, northwest winds will pick up and gust 20-35mph during the first half of the day as a brief cold shot continues to advect through New England behind the secondary cold front that brought us some of those high terrain snow showers via lake effect and upslope processes during our Tuesday.
Highs today will climb into the 20s under partly to mostly sunny skies (though clouds may persist over the Berkshires, Taconics, and Greens), and as I mentioned, winds will slacken into tonight.
We’ll experience one night of radiational cooling as winds go light this evening, and skies clear out with lows dropping into the low teens. We may even see some upper singles in SVT and far northwest MA.
High pressure now located over Illinois will slide east on Thursday and pass to our south, which will send a warm front our way as a weak northern stream system tracks east of the Great Lakes toward the northeast U.S.
This may kick off a few snow showers in the evening, but not much precip is expected. Highs Thursday will reach the mid 20s to low 30s under partly sunny skies, with lows in the teens.
Moving into Friday and Saturday, west to southwest flow will develop, which will push our highs up into the low to mid 30s under sunny skies on Friday (a lovely January day!), and then into the mid 30s to low 40s on Saturday as clouds increase.
There are two potential areas of low pressure that could bring us a mix of precipitation in as many days during Saturday afternoon and night, and again Sunday into early Monday.
Saturday’s system will feature low pressure passing north of us and dragging a cold front our way. With milder temps on Saturday, the Pioneer Valley should see rain showers with some wet snow mix in the western hill towns, and potential to end with a coating to 2 of wet snow in SVT and far northwest MA.
On Sunday, the front will be through the region and colder air will slowly begin to wend its way back into our region.
Highs will still climb into the 30s but will start to fall back by late in the day as a second coastal low pressure may pass south of us, and push a period of light to maybe moderate accumulating snow into the greater WMass region (especially south of the Rt. 2 corridor in WMass, CMass and northern CT) for Sunday night into early Monday, though uncertainty remains on this second system.
Beyond that, Arctic air is definitely returning to our region with serious potency with highs only in the teens by Tuesday, with below zero wind chills likely, and the likelihood of Cold Weather Warning alerts being issued by NWS if things continue to trend in this direction.
I will keep you updated on all of it, and I hope you have a great day!
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