Dewpoint temp chart for today.
——————–
A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR:
DHTWN Is Sponsored by Members, Patrons & Tandem Bagel Company: No matter the weather, Tandem Bagel is always there for you at several valley locations to make your mornings brighter! With bagels baked fresh daily, house-whipped cream cheese, coffee, and tons of lunch options, Tandem is the perfect quick stop for lunch, breakfast, or a coffee and bagel to go. Find them in Easthampton, Northampton, Hadley, Florence (and now West Springfield!), or use their super-streamlined online ordering tool by visiting their website: https://www.tandembagelco.com
——————————————-
***DHTWN DAILY WEATHER REPORT***
——————————————-
NWS ALERTS
–None, but there will be an elevated chance for fire spread today given very dry ground fuels combining with west and northwest wind gusts of 15-30mph.
DHTWN REMINDER
–The odds of being a human is 1 in 400 trillion… make it count, even in a small way (see Kurt Vonnegut quote at end of post)
DAILY CELESTIAL (STAR):
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:15am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 7:23pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 13 hours and 8 minutes
DAILY CELESTIAL (MOON):
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 10:01pm tonight
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 12:59pm tomorrow afternoon
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Southwest
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent 25.5%
———————-
DAILY TERRESTRIAL (ZoneCast)
ZONE 1 (Northern Region)
Southern VT, Southwest NH, N. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Upper 60s to Low 70s
–Low Temps: Low to Mid 40s
–Humidity: Very low! Dewpoints in the 50s lowering to 40s!
–Wind: Northwesterly wind gusting 15-30mph at times
–Skies: Mostly sunny
–Precipitation: None
ZONE 2 (Central Region)
WMass, N. CMass, N. Litchfield County, C./S. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Upper 60s to Mid 70s, a few upper 70s in the southern valley
–Low Temps: Mid to Upper 40s
–Humidity: Very low! Dewpoints in the 50s lowering to 40s!
–Wind: Northwesterly wind gusting 15-30mph at times
–Skies: Mostly sunny
–Precipitation: None
ZONE 3 (Southern Region)
S. CMass, S. Litchfield County, NC.CT, & NE.CT
–High Temps: Mid to Upper 70s
–Low Temps: Upper 40s to Mid 50s
–Humidity: Very low! Dewpoints in the 50s lowering to 40s!
–Wind: Northwesterly wind gusting 15-30mph at times
–Skies: Mostly sunny
–Precipitation: None
———————-
WEATHER REPORT
Good morning everybody, and happy Meteorological Autumn to you! We have a trio of lovely days ahead, with today being the coolest of the bunch.
In fact, some folks won’t even reach 70º in our northwest zones of far northwest MA and southern VT!
We have an upper trough swinging east and out of our region, along with surface low pressure north of Maine.
These two features will combine with high pressure down in the southern Ohio Valley to create a pressure gradient that produces northwest wind gusts of 15-30mph today, which should slacken by tonight, allowing for radiational cooling.
Highs today under mostly sunny skies will reach the upper 60s to upper 70s from north to south (check your ZoneCast above to get more local details), and lows will crash into the low 40s to low 50s tonight as winds calm, and as we continue to dry out under mostly clear skies.
For Friday, another lovely day with sunshine and highs in the 75-80º range will wash us over with loveliness.
Skies will be clear at night with lows in the low to mid 50s as wisps of crispness lull us to sleep.
By Saturday, our high pressure cell will exit east of our longitude, tracking south of us, which will turn our flow southerly, and raise high temps into the upper 70s to mid 80s under mostly sunny skies, with lows in the upper 50s to low 60s.
By Sunday, humidity will increase ahead of a cold front that will be working into the region with enhanced southerly flow. This will drive high temps up and into the low to mid 80s, with perhaps a few upper 80s down in the Springfield-Hartford corridor.
After a mostly sunny start, clouds will increase and by afternoon we will see scattered showers and non-severe thunderstorms push into the region, and continue overnight with lows in the low 60s.
Labor Day Monday looks cooler behind the front with highs generally in the mid 70s range, with some scattered showers possible as the front slows down and possibly stalls to our east and south, remaining close enough to still have an influence of inclemency.
Ah yes, Influence of Inclemency…. my next book!
Wait, I don’t even have a first book!
As we push into the middle of next week beyond the Labor Day Holiday, temps will moderate into the upper 70s to low 80s with increasingly fair weather.
———————
LAST CALL TO WMASS REGIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR 2023 WEATHER WALL CALENDAR SUBMISSIONS…My friend, if you’ve submitted in past years, or fancy yourself a fine photographer of the greater WMass region’s natural beauty (WMass, CMass, S.VT, SW.NH, or northern CT), please click the secure link to my website below to get the details on how you can be seen by over 1000 of your neighbors and be included in my 9th consecutive (and likely last) local/regional weather wall calendar.
The deadline for submission is 9/3/2022, and I really hope you’ll send some photos for consideration!
CLICK SECURE LINK
———————
That’s the weather story for now, I hope you have a great day!
Did you know that you can also follow me on Twitter?
AND REMEMBER…
“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