POST SECTIONS (Scroll Below For Yours)
–DHTWN’s Reminder (Keep your Life Force)
–Weekly Nutshell (Quick impact list)
–Sponsor Note (Tandem Bagel Co.)
–NWS Alerts (Advisories, Warnings, Watches)
–Celestial Data (Sun/Moon info)
–Regional Summaries (Quick in/out details)
–Morning Discussion (More Details)
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DHTWN REMINDER:
There’s a lot of to be distraught about these days, but life goes on, keeps moving, flowing, and willing itself onward. We’re a manifestation and part of that life force, but it goes way beyond us and we’re lucky to be a part of it, even if things aren’t going well. Remember, there’s always a chance things might improve. If you’re struggling, I hope things go better for you today, and I say stay open to the chance that they will – the mind craves certainty, so let’s try to stay open.
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DAVE’S WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL
–Patchy fog, some dense this morning, burns off quickly
–Mostly sunny skies, with haze at times, and some afternoon cumulus clouds, with an isolated shower possible, highs near 70º
–Patchy fog possible again tonight, cool, lows in the 40s
–Mostly sunny Tuesday with high pressure, highs low 70s
–Mostly clear Tuesday night lows 40s
–Wednesday is the warmest day of the week with highs in the 70s to near 80º in a few spots with clouds increasing by afternoon
–Showers and a possible thunderstorm Wednesday later afternoon and evening with gusty winds picking up behind a frontal passage at night
–Cooler and fair late week with highs in the 60s
–Potential for showers over Memorial Day Weekend, but before we continue below let’s check a note from our local and delicious sponsor, #TandemBagelCo, with their newest location in the Stop & Shop Plaza on King Street in Northampton, MA.
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A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR:
Dave Hayes The Weather Nut is Sponsored by Individual Community Members, Patrons & Tandem Bagel Company… No matter the weather, Tandem Bagel is always there for you at several valley locations to make your mornings brighter! With bagels baked fresh daily (including Gluten-Free options), house-whipped cream cheese, coffee, and tons of lunch options, Tandem is the perfect quick stop for lunch, breakfast, or a coffee and bagel to go. Find them in Easthampton, Northampton, Hadley, Florence, and West Springfield, or use their super-streamlined online ordering tool by visiting their website.
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***DHTWN DAILY WEATHER REPORT***
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NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALERTS
–None, but some patchy dense fog is noted in parts of the region this morning.
DAILY CELESTIAL (STAR):
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 5:23am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 8:11pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 14 hours and 48 minutes
NIGHTLY CELESTIAL (MOON):
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 11:36pm this evening
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 8:11am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Northwest
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Northeast
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent (8.0%)
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DAILY TERRESTRIAL
ZONE 1 – Northern Region
(Southern VT, Southwest NH)
–High Temps (Today): Mid 60s to Low 70s
–Low Temps (Tonight): Upper 30s to Mid 40s
–High Temps (Tomorrow): Mid 60s to Low 70s
–Winds: Light and Variable Wind through tomorrow
–Sky Cover: Mostly sunny with filtered sun due to Canadian wildfire smoke, partly cloudy tonight
–Precipitation: Isolated shower possible, otherwise dry
–NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Patchy fog this morning and tomorrow, dense in a few spots
ZONE 2 – Central Region
(Western MA, North-Central MA, Northern Litchfield CT)
–High Temps (Today): Upper 60s to Low 70s
–Low Temps (Tonight): Low to Mid 40s
–High Temps (Tomorrow): Low to Mid 70s
–Winds: Light and Variable Wind through tomorrow
–Sky Cover: Mostly sunny with filtered sun due to Canadian wildfire smoke, partly cloudy tonight
–Precipitation: Isolated shower possible, otherwise dry
–NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Patchy fog this morning and tomorrow, dense in a few spots
ZONE 3 – Southern Region
(South-Central MA, Northern CT)
–High Temps (Today): Upper 60s to Low 70s
–Low Temps (Tonight): Low to Mid 40s
–High Temps (Tomorrow): Low to Mid 70s
–Winds: Northeast gusts up to 20mph today, otherwise lighter breezes expected
–Sky Cover: Mostly sunny with filtered sun due to Canadian wildfire smoke, partly cloudy tonight
–Precipitation: Isolated shower possible, otherwise dry
–NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Patchy fog this morning and tomorrow, dense in a few spots
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MORNING DISCUSSION
Good morning folks, our weather is essentially going to be dominated by high pressure this week, interrupted briefly by a fairly strong cold frontal passage later on Wednesday.
We’ve got patchy fog in spots this morning, and some of it is dense with 0.13 mile visibility noted recently at North Adams in the northern Berkshires, and 1.00 mile visibility down at Westover Air Base in Chicopee.
This will burn off fairly quickly as the sun continues to climb and temps come up.
Highs today will reach the upper 60s to low 70s for most folks across the greater WMass region with a generally light northeast wind that may gust a bit more robustly up to 20mph in southern CMass and northeast CT, and less so in the valley.
We may also see an isolated shower or sprinkle drop from some cumulus clouds later this afternoon. Lows tonight will be in the 40s under partly cloudy skies with patchy fog possible by morning.
More sunshine tomorrow, potentially filtered again by haze from the Canadian wildfires that have been ongoing, with highs in the low 70s, and lows in the 40s under mostly clear skies.
By the way, Tuesday night is ideal for western-sky viewing of the planetary conjunction of Mars, the Crescent Moon and Venus, before they set in the west so check that out!
Wednesday starts off sunny with highs well into the 70s, but a cold front will be careening southeast toward New England and clouds will build by early afternoon with showers expected by late afternoon into the evening.
The further north you go in MA, and up into SVT and SWNH is where a higher chance exists for showers, and the dynamics should weaken toward the south. A thunderstorm is also possible.
Behind the front, northwesterlies will pick up and gust 20-30mph at night and into part of Thursday as cold air advects into the region.
Thursday and Friday look cooler, with highs only in the 60s along with plenty of sunshine.
By Memorial Day Weekend, I will be watching to see how an upper low to our west interacts with energy to our south, to see if that moisture can be drawn north into New England in an organized way to produce showery periods.
Inclement weather is not a lock for this coming weekend, so stay tuned for updates as we get closer.
I hope you have a great day and that things go your way!
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