Good morning everybody, I, for one, welcome our cloudy skies today, our voluminous layers of gray, our thick moisture pad in the sky, our harbinger of liquid hydrometeors aplenty.

Yes, I say! Let it rain! Let us run amok in the fields of green, incanting to the pelting heavens above, rain down your sweet liquid love and pitter and patter our heads, roofs, and lawns with the musical rhythms of life!

And rain it shall, and for some in copious amounts mostly this afternoon and tonight with tons of warmer, fair, dry weather ahead starting tomorrow into next week, but before we jump into the weather and daily details below, let’s check a note from our new weekend sponsor, #RedFireFarm located in Granby, MA.
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A RAIN BLIP, THEN ANOTHER DRY STRETCH
Good morning everybody, we’ve got a rainy day on the way as a coastal storm bobs north off of the coast, remaining east of the DelMarVa Peninsula (the union of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia: DEL-MAR-VA) and tracking north-northeast toward southeast New England.

This storm will interact with an incoming cold front from the west, and induce a southerly low level jet streak (i.e. a faster-moving river of air about a mile above our heads) to pass overhead tonight, with its strongest core somewhere near the Pioneer Valley and points east.

From the valley eastward is where it still looks like the heaviest rains should fall.

Before we see that weather develop, we’ll see areas of drizzle/mist form over parts of our region as the morning wears on, and then by late morning to early afternoon our first showers will move into the region (likely east of the I-91 corridor first, like eastern Hampden/Hampshire Counties into northeast CT and southern CMass).

Overall, it appears that the coastal low and cold front will interact further west with each other, pulling steadier rains more west into the Berkshires, but I still think the farther western parts of Litchfield and Berkshire County up into Bennington County, VT should still see less rain, westward into the Taconics of eastern NY.

Overall, those far western areas are likely to see more like a third of an inch of rain up to perhaps an inch, whereas from the eastern Berkshires and Litchfields eastward through the rest of N,.CT and WMass/CMass, southeast VT, southwest NH should see 1-2.5″, with a low chance that things really overperforms, and lays down over 3″ of rain in some cases, though I’m not convinced of that at the moment.

The afternoon and evening looks the wettest, and we could even see some street flooding in spots where heavier rains fall more consistently.

Highs will reach the low to mid 60s.

DHTWN expects soup pics!

Lows tonight will sit down to either side of 50º as rain quits after midnight.

Any morning clouds give way to a partly sunny day with highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s, with full sunshine possible later in the afternoon, with lows in the mid to upper 40s.

Thereafter? Huge high pressure builds in from the west, and eventually dives southeast of our region by mid-week, which means of tons of sunshine throughout the week with cooler temps early in the 60s to low 70s, rising well into the 70s the rest of the week, and possibly the low 80s for a day on Wednesday.

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