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* Daily Celestials (Sun/Moon Data)
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* Morning Discussion
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YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
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STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 5:23am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 8:27pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 15 hours and 4 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 10:56pm tonight
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Northwest
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 9:59am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Northeast
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent (12.2%)
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning everybody, remember that if you ever need to reach me you can find me at my website at the secure links above.
As for our weather, it is very humid and these conditions will last into Saturday, the way it looks at this point.
We have a strong Bermuda high in the western Atlantic that keeps directing southwest moist and warm flow into our region, and this will keep dewpoints in in the upper 60s to mid 70s through the week, which is very, very humid indeed.
With air temps expected to reach the upper 80s to mid 90s, heat indices will rise to 95-100º today, and Air Quality Alerts and Heat Advisories have already been hoisted by the DEP and NWS respectively for Hampshire County, Hampden County southern Worcester County. Heat Advisories also continue for northern CT.
Lastly (for today anyway) is a small wave that will run through the region at the mid levels today and help act on high moisture and increased stability due to surface heating, which should pop some showers, downpours and thunderstorms, and a storm or two may become strong to severe with strong gusty winds, generally in the 3-9pm timeframe, and mostly north of the Rt. 9 corridor in MA.
Lows will dip into the upper 60s to low 70s and remain very humid with patchy fog possible.
The remnants of Beryl will be heading into the eastern Great Lakes on Wednesday and exiting northern NY or northern VT by Thursday, which will act as a humidity siphon to reinforce very humid conditions in our region.
As this happens, a warm front will lift through our region Wednesday, and act to produce more scattered showers, downpours and thunderstorms.
A few storms could become strong to severe west of the I-91 corridor primarily, and I can’t rule out a brief spinup.
Highs should reach the mid 80s to low 90s, which will result in our second heat wave in 2024 for some folks in the region. Lows will dip to either side of 70º as we rinse and repeat.
By Thursday we may see a bit of a break in terms of precipitation as Beryl’s rainy remnants now look to stay north of the greater WMass region for the most part, but isolated activity is still possible in this very humid air mass. Highs will reach 85-90º.
By Friday, as Beryl pulls away, a frontal boundary will drop southeast and potentially combine with a coastal wave that lifts north as a squeeze play between and incoming upper trough and the outer periphery of our Bermuda high press, lift, and potentially drop heavy rain across the region Friday into Saturday.
This is not set in stone, but that potential exists so I will keep you updated as we get closer.
Highs will reach the 80s Friday and Saturday under mostly cloudy skies with decreased humidity expected briefly over the weekend.
After that system does whatever it’s going to do, we should see some more sun return by Sunday into early next week, along with some heat and return to very humid conditions by early next week.
There is brief glimmer of hope that by mid to late next week we could see a REAL dip in humidity levels, but for now that remains a fool’s hope in the mind of this writer.
Have a great day!
>>> BE KIND <<<
“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies: Goddamn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
–Kurt Vonnegut