TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Celestials (Sun/Moon Info)
* Zone Forecasts
* Weekly Nutshell
* Morning Discussion
* Scroll below for your sections, or read all
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YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
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STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:59am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 6:13pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 11 hours and 14 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 5:33pm this afternoon
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 5:45am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East
–MOON PHASE: Waning Crescent (5.0%)
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ZONE FORECAST SUMMARIES
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ZONE 1 – Northern Region
(Southern VT, Southwest NH)
–High Temps (Today): Low to Mid 60s
–Low Temps (Tonight): Mid to Upper 30s
–High Temps (Tomorrow): Mid to Upper 50s
–Winds: Light west through tonight, gusts to 20mph tomorrow
–Sky Cover: Partly sunny today, mostly cloudy tonight, partly sunny tomorrow
–Precipitation: A spot shower is possible later this afternoon
–NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: None
ZONE 2 – Central Region
(Western MA, North-Central MA, Northern Litchfield CT)
–High Temps (Today): Mid to Upper 60s
–Low Temps (Tonight): Upper 30s to Low 40s
–High Temps (Tomorrow): Mid 50s to Low 60s
–Winds: Light west through tonight, gusts to 20mph tomorrow
–Sky Cover: Mostly sunny today except partly sunny northern MA, more clouds tonight, mostly sunny tomorrow
–Precipitation: A spot shower is possible later this afternoon
–NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: None
ZONE 3 – Southern Region
(South-Central MA, Northern CT)
–High Temps (Today): Mid to Upper 60s
–Low Temps (Tonight): Low 40s
–High Temps (Tomorrow): Upper 50s to Low 60s
–Winds: Light west through tonight, gusts to 20mph tomorrow
–Sky Cover: Mostly sunny today, mostly clear tonight, mostly sunny tomorrow
–Precipitation: None
–NWS Alerts / Nut Notes: None
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YOUR WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL
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–After isolated morning fog patches, partly to mostly sunny today, highs in the 60s
–More clouds north later in the day, less south
–A spot shower is possible in northern MA, SVT or SWNH
–Lows in the mid 30s to low 40s tonight, partly cloudy
–Patchy frost possible in spots, mostly along north of Rt. 2
–Friday is cooler, and a bit breezy, NW winds gust up to 20mph
–Highs will only reach the 55-60º range, with lows in the low 40s
–Clouds increase a bit on Saturday, with partly sunny skies north, and mostly cloudy skies developing along and south of the Pike with a few afternoon showers possible in northern CT
–Our coastal storm is likely suppressed south due to drying northerlies from Canadian high AND low pressure
–Still, a showery period is expected in northern CT Saturday night into early Sunday morning, which may spread north into Hampden and southern Worcester Counties in MA
–Sunday should see drying through the day from north to south, partly sunny north, mostly cloudy south
–Highs will be in the 50s to near 60º all weekend with lows near 40º
–Early next week could see instability showers from a nearby upper low with its associated cool pool of air aloft causing shower development, 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 everybody, we’re finally getting our Canadian upper low to vamoose to the east, and as it does so it will send one more very weak wave through to our north today, which will increase clouds in northern MA, SVT and SWNH, and produce a few isolated showers perhaps in that part of our region.
Areas to the south including most of the Pioneer Valley will see partly to mostly sunny skies with highs well into the 60s – dare I say warm? That might be pushing it, but certainly milder than recent days.
Lows will be chilly tonight, dropping into the mid 30s to low 40s, so some patchy frost is possible in northern areas.
Our low pushes into the Canadian Maritimes by tomorrow which will send a dry cold front through the region. From that we’ll see cooler highs tomorrow mostly in the mid to upper 50s, along with some northwest breezes with gusts up to 20mph at times. Lows will be near 40º.
Then we watch our Atlantic Canadian low team up with a south-central Canadian high pressure center to produce drying northerly flow into our region, which will help suppress an eastward-tracking low pressure system mostly to our south over the weekend, which would be MOST WELCOME INDEED!
Yes, in that particular case (unlike my daily headlines) I am yelling! With Joy!
Still, we’ll have to watch it as some showers are expected to ride north into northern CT and possibly as far north as southernmost WMass/CMass late Saturday afternoon, but especially overnight into early Sunday morning.
Highs this weekend will hang in the 50s with more clouds to the south, but with a chance for a partly sunny weekend along and north of the Route 9 corridor in MA! That would be awesome!
Sunday dries as the day goes on, and sunshine should try to peek through the clouds further south toward CT. Lows will be in the 40s both nights.
For early next week, an upper low nearby should destabilize the atmosphere enough with cold air aloft to produce some scattered instability showers with highs in the 50s but there are no big storms in sight at the moment, no big cool downs, and no big warm ups.
Steady as we go in the weather department, thankfully. I wish you well today.
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