Good morning everybody, and Happy Thanksgiving!! I spend a part of every week being thankful for all of you, your individual readership, and this community and audience at large, thank you all for giving me a purpose in this world and for your support so I can keep this resource and work active!
I am also grateful for the chance to make music with so many amazing humans in my musical family in western Massachusetts, and I’ll be doing that again this Saturday night at the Shea Theatre in Turners Falls as dozens of us gather to pay tribute to Doug Tibbles, who passed away earlier this year and was a great drummer, visual artist of various media, writer, editor, and all around super cool dude.
He drummed for the band “The Stone Coyotes” which featured his lovely wife Barbara Keith and his son John Tibbles as a rocking trio that produced so many incredible songs and stories, they were a powerful force, and we will be playing their music that night in tribute, and Doug’s artwork will be displayed throughout the Shea, so please come out and celebrate with us (tix link here).
As for our weather, it’s fairly pedestrian in its affect, given that there is only one storm on the horizon for Sunday night into Monday, and it should be a progressive system (meaning fast-moving, as there will be nothing to slow its forward motion).
For our Thanksgiving Day, we’ll be breezy with northwest gusts of 15-25mph and partly to mostly sunny skies with highs in the low to mid 40s, with maybe some upper 40s down in northern CT.
For tonight, it will be partly cloudy with highs either side of 30º.
On Friday, a dry cold front will be swinging through the later afternoon and west winds will gust up to 20mph or so ahead of it, with northwest winds gusting 15-25mph behind it at night.
Highs will reach the upper 30s to low 40s, but lows will plummet into the 15-20º range and with gusts at night up to 25mph, we could see some single-digits wind chills in some spots, so bundle up!
We have a lovely, sunny, late Autumn weekend ahead with a cold Saturday on tap, with highs only in the low to mid 30s, and lows in the 20s.
Sunday is the pick of the weekend given milder temps with highs in the 40s under partial sunshine, but clouds will build in the evening, and rain will move in Sunday night into Monday, with some snow at the start in SVT, and perhaps northwest MA, but at the moment I only expect some slushy coatings.
It’ll be COLD behind the Monday storm with highs only in the 30s and lows in the teens and 20s, and we could see some lake effect snow showers into the Berkshires, SVT, Taconics, and western hills by Tuesday or Wednesday, but no big storms are in sight for now.
Have a great Thanksgiving Day, and THANK YOU!! <3