>>> YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS <<<
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:43am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:26pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 43 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 9:18pm tonight
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Southwest
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 12:41pm tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent (28.5%)
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>>> DAVE’S WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL <<<
–Morning showers and mild temps early today will give way to partial sunshine later, gusty northwest winds and falling temps
–Highs in the upper 40s and 50s this morning will surrender to Canadian air, which drives temps into the 30s and 40s by dinner time with colder wind chill readings
–Lows tonight will dive into the mid to upper 20s as skies clear out and winds calm a bit
–For Sunday, continued westerly breezes of 15-25mph will be possible under partly sunny skies on average
–We should start mostly sunny, but clouds build and some scattered rain, snow or graupel showers are possible in northwest MA and southern VT into SWNH
–Highs Sunday will reach the upper 30s to upper 40s with lows in the mid 20s
–Monday into Monday night will feature wintry cold with highs in the mid 30s to near 40º, and lows in the teens to low 20s with a sunny day and mostly clear night
–By Tuesday, clouds build and rain and snow arrives Tuesday night with highs near 40º and lows near freezing
–We can’t rule out some accumulation in the high terrain west of the I-91 corridor, which changes to rain Wednesday morning and quitting by early afternoon, when travel conditions will improve
–Thanksgiving Day into Friday should feature dry, fair weather, but with cold temps and highs only reaching the mid 30s to low 40s, but before we get into the details let’s check a note from our local weekend sponsor, #GerardGhazeyBatesPC, an estate planning law firm in Northampton, MA.
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>>> MORNING DISCUSSION <<<
Good morning everybody, we’re watching the steeper step-down into deeper Autumn play out before our eyes with this morning’s fleeting mild swipe, as a cold front swings into the region, moves through, and takes temps in the 50s this morning and drops them into the 30s to low 40s by dinner time tonight!

Any morning showers will quit as a wave along the passing cold front trucks northeast into northern New England today.

This will leave us with drying conditions, partial sunshine developing, and northwest winds gusting 20-30mph at times this afternoon.

Lows should continue to descend into the mid to upper 20s tonight as we clear out.

For Sunday and Monday, a pair of breezy and borderline blustery days will pass through our lives with a few snow or rain showers possible Sunday afternoon amidst a partly sunny day with highs in the upper 30s to upper 40s, and lows in the mid 20s.

Monday is COLDER and sunny. Highs will only climb into the 30s for most folks, with maybe some low 40s south of the Pike! At least it will be sunny. Lows will plummet into the teens to low 20s for a complete winter feel by early Tuesday morning.

By Tuesday, I’ll be watching an upper level system and a surface low combining forces near the eastern Great Lakes tracking west of us, but a secondary low likely spawns somewhere over us or south of us.

Highs will only reach the upper 30s to low 40s as clouds increase. By evening a swath of precipitation will be headed northeast toward New England, and if a secondary low can form enough to our south, we could see a period of accumulating wet snow at night for at least northwest MA and into southern VT, and possibly for many other areas as well.

Any rain and snow will last into Wednesday morning, and likely change to all rain before quitting near or after mid day.

So, Wednesday morning travel could be impacted, but as the day and evening wears on, travel conditions should improve with Wednesday night lows in the mid 20s.

There is likely to be a fair bit of wind with this system as well, but I will update that piece as we get closer.

The good news is that Thanksgiving Day looks dry and sunny, but it will be cold with highs in the mid 30s to low 40s both Thursday and Friday with Thanksgiving Night lows in the low to mid 20s.

Stay tuned for future refinements of the holiday forecasts, and 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