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: 5:02pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 57 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 8:01am this morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 6:30pm this afternoon
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Southwest
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent (1.3%)
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A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning everybody, our seesaw weather pattern continues, up and down, round and round, hold on to your hats, and keep moving forward, because meteorological variability will be on all of our dance cards into and through next week, best I can tell.
For today, the winds are still active but not as bad as yesterday and overnight for most of us, and gusts should sit down into the 20-35mph range – still active, but 50mph gusts are not expected as the pressure gradient slowly eases with high pressure pushing to our south today.
But don’t get me wrong, it’ll still be a blustery day with mostly sunny skies and highs in the mid to upper 20s. As such, wind chills will hang in the teens today, so bundle up.
For tonight, clouds increase, and winds decrease with lows dropping into the mid to upper teens, rising slightly late at night as southwest flow develops with warm front and associated wave of low pressure lifting northeast into the greater WMass region for Friday.
By the later pre-dawn hours, scattered showers should be working into the region, and these (given cold air already in place, and the fact that cold air is hard to dislodge from) likely will start as freezing rain in northwest CT, the Berkshires, and even the western hilltowns, and possibly parts of the valley, especially north of the Pike.
As precipitation and milder air continues to spread northeast into our region, many of us should change to rain with highs rising well into the 30s.
However, I do have a modicum of concern that icing could last longer in areas north of the Pike, which will depend on how fast we warm up.
I will let you know if additional Winter Weather Advisories other than the Litchfields and Berkshires are hoisted.
By later afternoon, the wave will be passing east of us, and that will draw colder air back into the system, likely changing folks along and north of the Route 9 corridor in WMass (and later in the evening, CMass) north into SVT and SWNH back to snow or ice.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some light wet snow accumulations coat the ground of folks along and north of Rt. 2 into SVT/SWNH, especially, as lows drop into the upper teens to mid 20s. Black ice by early Saturday morning will be something to watch for as well.
Saturday looks like a lovely way to start of February with highs in the 20s to near 30º, followed by a sharp drop in temps down into the single digits, with some below zero readings in SVT possible.
Clouds will increase on Sunday with highs either side of the freezing mark, as another Clipper system tracks toward northern New England at night.
This looks to keep steadier snow north of the Pike, so folks down along and south of the Pike likely just see some scattered snow showers, without any accumulation, and north of the Pike will probably see about a coating to an inch, maybe up to 2” or so in far northern MA and into SVT/SWNH by Monday morning with lows in the low to mid 20s.
A warm front passes by and spikes temps up into the 40s, followed by another cold front which will drop lows down into the low 20s Monday night with highs on Tuesday rising to about the freezing mark with fair weather by Monday afternoon through Tuesday.
By mid-week (Wed/Thurs) we may be dealing with another winter storm, so our active pattern is going to continue, even though we’re not getting any real blockbuster storms.
Such is the Winter of 2025 so far… we’ll see what February brings.
Have a great day!
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