DAVE HAYES MOBILE WEATHER APP UPDATES
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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 RISES AT: 7:05am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 5:01pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 56 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 7:32am this morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 5:13pm this afternoon
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Southwest
–MOON PHASE: New Moon (0.2%)
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A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning everybody, thanks for the snow total reports earlier this morning with my 5am post, but if you haven’t yet weighed in with what collected on your ground, please let a nut know!
Generally, areas along and south of the Pike got a coating to nothing, whereas areas north of there got 1-3”, with some 3-5” totals in northwestern hilltowns and even parts of the northern valley like Greenfield.
Our Clipper low has vamoosed to the east, and in its wake we’ll see some back end and/or upslope snow showers later this morning, mostly relegated to the Berkshires, northwestern hiilltowns and SVT/SWNH.
Temps are going to continue to become milder with time, rising well into the 30s and even in the low 40s in some valley areas.
This is going to steepen the low level lapse rates (i.e. temps will get colder faster as you rise in altitude from the surface), and that helps mix wind down to the surface more easily.
Another cold front will be sweeping into the region from New York state between Noon and 3pm, and lord knows when the cold wind blows it’ll turn your head around.
We’ll see west-northwest winds pick up, and assuming we get temps to come up well into the 30s toward 40º, we should see strong gusts again today of 35-55mph. If temps don’t quite make it that high, then gusts will be tamped down into the 25-45mph range, but I believe the former will transpire.
In addition, our cold front will be accompanied by scattered snow showers and snow squalls capable of lowering visibility rapidly and laying down quick light accumulations.
Winter Weather Advisories continue for northern Berkshire County and western Franklin and western Hampshire Counties, and Winter Storm Warnings continue for southern VT, which acknowledges that more accumulating snow is expected in those areas today and tonight.
In fact, another coating to 2” is possible in the Advisory areas, and another 1-4” is possible in the southern Greens of VT, which will depend where exactly squalls track. The rest of us in WMass, CMass, SWNH and northern CT could see a new coating up to an inch in any squalls.
The wind will tamp down tonight, but still gust 15-30mph, and as such with lows in the single digits to low teens behind the front, wind chills will drop below zero for many, with single digits above for folks in southern areas like the MassPike corridor and into northern CT.
Thursday looks like a beautiful but cold winter day with highs under sunny skies in the mid to upper 20s with low in the teens as clouds increase aheads of our next storm system for Friday.
There is continued uncertainty with our Friday system, but it likely arrives sometime in the morning as a period of snow or ice transitioning to rain for a time before changing back to ice and snow in the high terrain, but I have a lot of details to work out on that, so I will keep you updated.
Highs look to rise into the mid 30s to low 40s Friday with lows dropping into the 20s as colder air filters in on the back side of the storm as it departs out to sea.
Saturday is most definitely the pick of the weekend with mostly sunny skies expected as brief high pressure moves through with highs in the 20s to low 30s, and lows in the single digits!
Sunday should see clouds increase with seasonable highs near freezing, and light snow more likely than not will break out in the afternoon and last through Sunday night with another Clipper type light snowstorm.
Monday does look milder as that storm passes north of us and draws milder air north with highs cresting 40º, but then we cool back down toward freezing on Tuesday as our seesaw weather continues!
Have a great day!
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