>>> YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS <<<
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:30am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 7:00pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 12 hours and 30 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 7:27pm this evening
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 7:54am tomorrow morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East
–MOON PHASE: New Moon (0.1%)
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>>> DAVE’S WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL <<<
–After a cool start, we’ll enjoy a fair weather day as Category 1 Hurricane Lee steams north to the southwest tip of Nova Scotia
–We’ll enjoy mostly sunny skies early with high clouds building in, and building clouds east leading to partly sunny skies
–Highs will reach the 65-70º range, and light northerly wind will gust up to 20mph tonight as clouds build
–For Saturday, we’ll be mostly cloudy as Lee makes its furthest pass well to our east with highs in the 65-70º range again
–Northerly winds during the morning will switch to northwest in the afternoon and west at night, gusting 15-35mph, with some 40mph gusts possible in CMass and northeast CT
–Rain showers in Lee’s outer bands should make it no farther west than the Pioneer Valley, and even that might be a stretch
–Places like CMass and northeast CT could see up to half an inch or so of rain, with much less as you go west, to zero over the Berkshires, SVT and northwest CT
–Westerlies tamp down to gusts to 25mph tomorrow night with lows near 50º
–Sunday is the weekend pick with sunshine and highs well into the 70s with lows in the 50s and a few late scattered showers possible
–After a few showers Monday morning, a reinforcing shot of dry and cool autumnal air moves into the region and keeps temps in the upper 60s to mid 70s through much of next week with fair weather expected, 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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>>> MORNING DISCUSSION <<<
Good morning everybody, I need to start by saying that after this weekend’s report(s) re: Lee’s transit through our latitudes, I am going to take several days away from reporting as our weather is looking incredibly stable from through much of next week.
This Summer has been a stressful run which has run me down a bit, and I haven’t been feeling well (just a cold) so I need to take care of myself and get some rest while there’s not much weather going on in the weather department.
I hope this is ok, especially to my amazing patrons who continue to support my work financially so I can keep showing up in the ways that I’m able – I couldn’t do this with you, so thank you!
As for our weather, we’ve got a lovely day ahead with high pressure building in for our Friday. This will produce a chilly start in the 45-50º range, and a mostly sunny morning that will give way to building high and mid level clouds from Lee’s approach to our latitude by tomorrow morning.
Highs will reach the mid 60s to low 70s today with a potential for a lovely sunset with light northerly wind.
Clouds will build tonight and northerlies will pick up a touch and gust to about 20mph or so, with no rain expected. Lows will bottom out in the low to mid 50s.
Hurricane Lee will pass well east of Cape Cod tomorrow morning into the afternoon as a Category 1 hurricane transitioning to a cold core system. This will bring scattered power outages, storm surge of 2-4 feet for north-facing beaches, erosion, rip currents, and large waves up to 20 feet for coastal southern New England, along bands of heavy rain at times.
For us in the greater WMass region, some of the outer rain bands will make it as far west as the Pioneer Valley, although they may not even make it that far, and instead be relegated to central MA, easternmost Cheshire County NH and northeast CT.
These areas will receive up to half an inch of rain, with a sharp drop off in totals as you go west into the valley and toward the Berkshires, where no rain will fall.
Instead, Lee’s main impact will be northerly winds gusting 15-35mph across the region tomorrow, with some gusts to 40mph or so possible, likely at very high elevation and/or in central MA and northeast CT.
Highs will only reach the mid 60s to low 70s, and northerlies in the morning will back to the northwest in the afternoon and then the west by evening, slackening as time goes on. Lows will drop to either side of 50º tomorrow night as Lee pulls away and skies begin to clear with time.
Sunday looks lovely with a brief southwest flow pushing highs well into the 70s (with lows in the 50s) under mostly sunny skies ahead of another frontal boundary that will move through late Sunday night into Monday.
This will bring some scattered showers into the region into Monday with partly sunny skies expected and highs in the upper 60s to low 70s and lows in the 50s as showers quit Monday night.
Thereafter, it looks like we have fair weather on tap for much of the rest of the upcoming work week with partly to mostly sunny skies, highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s and lows either side of 50º — let’s hope it continues!
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