[7:05AM WED 5/29/24] ONE MORE SHOWERY ROUND TODAY THROUGH TOMORROW MORNING, AND THEN UPPER LEVEL RIDGING LOOKS TO BRING SUNSHINE, POLLEN, POLLINATORS, INCREASING WARMTH, AND DECREASING MOISTCHA (EMASS REPRESENT!) THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK… NO REAL SHOWER THREATS THAT I CAN SEE AFTER THURSDAY UNTIL THE MIDDLE TO LATE NEXT WEEK… TOMORROW COULD BRING AN UPSIDE RAINFALL TO AREAS SOUTH OF THE PIKE, BUT LOW CHANCE…

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Daily Celestials (Sun/Moon Data)
* Weekly Weather Nutshell
* Morning Discussion
* TIP: Scroll below for sections, or read all
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YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
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STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 5:18am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 8:18pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 15 hours!!!

MOON:
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 11:07am this morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Southwest
–OUR MOON RISES AT: 1:33am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast
–MOON PHASE: Waning Gibbous (64.5%)
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YOUR WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL
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–Lovely start to the day, temps in the 50s to low 60s, sunny, high visibility, peace in the valley, no rumbles in the alley
–We’ve got some instability that builds into the region thanks to pretty steep lapse rates as moisture increases from west to east
–This will turn sky blue into a field of puffy white cumulus clouds by late morning
–Some of these, in turn, will bloom into scattered showers, and possibly a thunderstorm or two
–Highs mostly crest into the low to mid 70, a few upper 70s possible in the southern valley
–Showers quit earlier tonight before more showers arrive early Thursday morning, so we get an overnight lull, with lows in the low 50s
–An upper trough sweeps east through PA and the Mid-Atlantic coastline today and tonight
–A surface low emerges off the coast and runs east along the southern New England coast line
–This will push an area of rainfall through CT, WMass, and CMass, steadiest along and south of the Rt. 2 corridors, with a few showers in far northern MA up into parts of SWNH (I think SVT stays largely dry, but I will update)
–This rainfall moves through mostly Thursday morning, and ends by mid-day or early afternoon
–Highs reach a cooler range of upper 60s to low 70s, with partial sunshine breaking out by mid afternoon or so
–Drier air spills southeast into our region Thursday night, with lows dipping WELL down into the 40s, maybe even near 40º along/north of Rt. 2!
–As of now, a giant upper ridge develops into the eastern U.S. and New England starting Friday, but really blossoming through the weekend and into early next week
–This will produce increasingly sunny skies, and increasingly warm temps during this period
–We start off in the upper 60s to mid 70s on Friday with breezy northwest wind and gusts up to 25mph as dry air continues to spill into the region
–Lows will dip into the upper 40s to low 50s
–Then the weekend arrives, and I can’t remember a better looking one at this range
–Mostly sunny, highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s, lows in the 50s, light wind, 15 hours of daylight, ENJOY!
–The warmth and sun continues into at least next Tuesday and maybe longer
–There are some cooling signals by second week of June, but for now, the first day of Meteorological Summer on Saturday looks right in line, peeps
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning everybody, and what a lovely start it is!

Hey, you’re still here, I’m still here, we’re in the Cosmos aboard a Space Ferry, it’s a chaotic Universe, but I’m glad we connected for a time, as Warren Zevon once said, enjoy every sandwich.

For today, we start off sunny, and watch fair weather clouds develop taller into scattered showers or a thunderstorm by afternoon (especially mid to late afternoon).

While the Nutshell has the sequential details handled, the bottom line is we get a quick overnight lull, and then watch a small storm track just south of us Thursday morning pushing some rain through the region, mainly south of the Rt. 2 corridor in MA, ending by mid day or early afternoon with some partial sun by afternoon.

Behind this system, a pattern change develops with a giant upper ridge of high pressure aloft, aiding and abetting a surface high center tracking southeast from the Great Lakes through the DelMarva, and off the east coast to our south through the weekend and into early next week.

This dumps drier air southeast thorugh the region Thursday night into Friday with gusty breezes and cooler temps either side of 70º, before The Warmening kicks into The High Gearering (sorry for my poor wordplay there).

As of now, it looks like sunshine for days, 5 days to be precise, Friday through Tuesday, HOWEVER, we all know the weather changes in New England, so do stay tuned for updates.

But for now, it looks like a sweet, savory, sunny, and warm stretch of weather that tops us out into the low to mid 80s for highs by Sunday through Tuesday.

Add 15+ hours of day light to that mix, and a summery sauntering into the month of June, and for cripes sake, we got ourselves some summah weathah!

Haiku of the Day:
–Calm Cacophony
–An Avian Symphony
–Early Morning Vibes

Have a great day!

>>> BE KIND <<<
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–Kurt Vonnegut