—MARCH FOR HUNGER & WMASS FOOD BANK
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Daily Celestials (Sun/Moon Data)
* WMass Zone Forecast Summaries
* 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: 6:46am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 4:25pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 9 hours and 39 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 1:10pm this afternoon
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 11:52pm tonight
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Southwest
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Gibbous (50.5%)
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WMASS ZONE FORECAST SUMMARIES
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ZONE 1 – Northern Region
(Southern VT, Southwest NH)
–High Temps (Today): Upper 20s to Mid 30s
–Low Temps (Tonight): Low to Mid Teens
–High Temps (Tomorrow): Mid 30s to Low 40s
–Winds: Light northerly today/tonight, becoming southeasterly late Tuesday
–Sky Cover: Mostly sunny today, clear tonight, sunny early then clouds build Tuesday
–Precipitation: None before say 8-11pm Tuesday night with snow and rain moving in
–NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Accumulating snow of 1-4″ expected late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, watch for slippery travel early Wed. AM.
ZONE 2 – Central Region
(Western MA, North-Central MA, Northern Litchfield CT)
–High Temps (Today): Mid to Upper 30s
–Low Temps (Tonight): Mid to Upper Teens
–High Temps (Tomorrow): Upper 30s to Low 40s
–Winds: Light northerly today/tonight, becoming southeasterly late Tuesday
–Sky Cover: Mostly sunny today, clear tonight, sunny early then clouds build Tuesday
–Precipitation: None before say 8-11pm Tuesday night with snow and rain moving in
–NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Accumulating snow of 1-4″ expected late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning for Berkshires (except GB), western hilltowns, Franklin County, & northern CMass
ZONE 3 – Southern Region
(South-Central MA, Northern CT)
–High Temps (Today): Upper 30s to Low 40s
–Low Temps (Tonight): Upper Teens to Low 20s
–High Temps (Tomorrow): Upper 30s to Low 40s
–Winds: Light northerly today/tonight, becoming southeasterly late Tuesday
–Sky Cover: Mostly sunny today, clear tonight, sunny early then clouds build Tuesday
–Precipitation: None before say 8-11pm Tuesday night with rain moving in
–NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: Snow may mix briefly in northweest CT, otherwise rain is expected late Tuesday night into Wednesday early afternoon
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YOUR WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL
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–Calm and cold today, highs in the 30s, light NW wind
–Calm and clear tonight, lows in the teens, quite cold!
–A sunny start to our Tuesday leads to clouds building by afternoon, highs either side of 40º
–Snow and rain moves into the region between 8pm-11pm Tuesday night
–Snow could fall moderately to heavily in parts of the Berkshires, western hilltowns, southern VT, southwest NH and along and north of Rt. 2 in Franklin County and Worcester County between 10pm-6am
–These areas more likely than not see 1-4″ of wet snow with a slushy grass coating up to an inch or two north of the Pike, with just rain south of there in southernmost MA into northern CT
–Everybody goes to rain later Wednesday morning, and rain quits by mid afternoon
–Southeast winds gust 15-30mph Tuesday night late into Wednesday
–Clearing Wednesday night, cold in the mid to upper 20s
–Thanksgiving Day is cold and breeezy, highs low to mid 40s with lows in the 20s, and Friday looks similar to Thursday
–The weekend looks chilly, but is very uncertain right now with storm potential, but before we talk details 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
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning folks, while I will be watching this weekend for the potential of additional storminess that could also bring with it some wintry precipitation, for now the pattern and signals are just too murky and inconsistent to get a bead on what might transpire, though the potential is there for some inclement weather anywhere from as early as Friday night to as late as Sunday, the way it looks now.
Regardless of that, I do know that we have a storm system to deal with for Tuesday night into Wednesday afternoon that will bring snow, sleet, rain, gusty winds, and hence some minor travel impacts.
For today through Tuesday afternoon, it’s simple: massive high pressure passes east through the region and brings fair weather, sunny/clear skies, and cold highs in the 30s today, teens tonight, and upper 30s to low 40s for Tuesday as clouds build in in the afternoon.
By Tuesday afternoon, an upper level low will be pivoting into the Great Lakes region and swinging a warm frontal boundary toward New England, along which a large rain shield will form.
After sunset, this large band of precipitation will press east-northeast into the greater WMass region, arriving in northwest CT, southern Taconics and southern Berkshires around 7-8pm, WMass and SVT between 8-9pm, and areas east and northeast of there between 9-11pm.
Rain and high elevation snow will fall, and the heavier precip combined with the colder nighttime hours, along with the development of a secondary low to our south (which helps keep the flood of warm air at bay for several hours given that the storm is west of us) should all help develop a period of accumulating snow in the Berkshires (except near GB which won’t snow much), the western hilltowns, SVT, SWNH and northern MA.
In these areas 1-4″ of snow accumulation looks likely before mixing with sleet and rain Wednesday morning and then changing to all rain into the afternoon before quitting.
The Pioneer Valley south of Greenfield down to the MassPike and points east into eastern Hampshire/Hampden Counties and into southern CMass could see a slushy coating up to an inch or two of snow before the change.
South of the Pike is mostly rain, and the rain should be out of here by mid-afternoon on Wednesday. It will also be gusty with southeasterly gusts of 10-20mph, and then northwesterly gusts behind the storm of 15-30mph Wednesday night into Thanksgiving Day
So if you are traveling early Wednesday morning, give yourself a little extra time for travel, as some roads may be slippery, and all roads will be wet.
Thanksgiving Day and Friday looks breezy, cool, highs low to mid 40s and lows in the 20s with at least partial sunshine.
The weekend is still a mystery, but it does look quite cool at the moment.
Have a great day and I will update later regarding tomorrow night’s snow for some!
>>> BE KIND <<<
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–Kurt Vonnegut