Good morning folks, the coldest morning since the last cold season has arrived with temps in the upper 30s to low 40s out there, brrrr! Be sure to bundle up.

We’ve got fair weather, and increasing warm and humid conditions building through the weekend ahead of an incoming frontal boundary that brings showers and maybe some thunderstorms late Sunday night through Monday night into Tuesday before we clear things out and then drop an Arctic front through the region by late next week, but before we dive into all of the weather details below, let’s check a note from our local and delicious sponsor, #TandemBagelCo, with their newest location in West Springfield, MA.
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***DHTWN DAILY WEATHER REPORT***
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NWS ALERTS
–None

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: 6:31am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 6:58pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 12 hours and 27 minutes

DAILY CELESTIAL (MOON):
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 10:20pm tonight
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 2:19pm tomorrow afternoon
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Northeast
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Northwest
–MOON PHASE: Waning Gibbous (64.1%)
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DAILY TERRESTRIAL (ZoneCast)
ZONE 1 (Northern Region)
Southern VT, Southwest NH, N. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Mid 60s to Low 70s (low 60s southern Greens)
–Low Temps: Low to Mid 40s
–Humidity: Low humidity w/ dewpoints in the 40s to low 50s
–Wind: Light northwest wind
–Skies: Mostly Sunny with some fair weather clouds
–Precipitation: None

ZONE 2 (Central Region)
WMass, N. CMass, N. Litchfield County, C./S. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Upper 60s to Mid 70s
–Low Temps: Mid 40s to Low 50s
–Humidity: Low humidity w/ dewpoints in the 40s to low 50s
–Wind: Light northwest wind
–Skies: Mostly Sunny with some fair weather clouds
–Precipitation: None

ZONE 3 (Southern Region)
S. CMass, S. Litchfield County, NC.CT, & NE.CT
–High Temps: Low to Mid 70s
–Low Temps: Upper 40s to Low 50s
–Humidity: Low humidity w/ dewpoints in the 40s to low 50s
–Wind: Light northwest wind
–Skies: Mostly Sunny with some fair weather clouds
–Precipitation: None
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WEATHER REPORT
Good morning everybody, it’s a chilly start with a few patchy fog areas out there, so grab a coat and be ready to transition to a day with highs in the 60s and 70s north to south with lighter northwest flow (less wind today).

A giant, sprawling high pressure system out of James Bay spilling down the entire eastern seaboard will slowly track southeast through the weekend.

For Friday/today, that keeps us calm and cooler with lows tonight bottoming out into the 40s to low 50s, so another chilly eve is on the way under mostly clear skies.

For Saturday, high pressure continues to track southeast into New England and we’ll start to be positioned on the back/west side of this system. We’ll still be well under its influence, with mostly sunny skies as a result along with some fair weather clouds, and highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s with lows in the mid 50s.

On Sunday, our high is well east of us, pumping in a one-day southwesterly, summery flow with what could become one of our last late-summer tastes as we’re starting to see a transition to Autumn, as the Equinox approaches and arrives next Thursday, 9/22/22.

In addition, our cold front should remain more northerly through much of Sunday, so this looks like a great day for summer activities, with highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s as humidity increases with dewpoints into the mid 60s, so it’ll be humid, but not oppressively so.

By that evening, clouds should be building from our north, and we could see areas north of the Rt. 2 corridor developing some isolated showers before midnight, especially in the northern halves of SVT and SWNH. Lows will sit down into the upper 50s to low 60s.

As we move into Monday, expect a showery day, or at least periods of showers mixed with dry periods.

Our frontal boundary will be settling south and into the region by that time, but how far south it gets is not certain, and this frontal position will impact temps from north to south through the region – cooler north of the front, warmer south of it.

For now, expect highs somewhere in the 70s with cloudy and showery conditions, with a few thunderstorms possible, and this will last into Monday night with lows in the 50s.

Early morning showers Tuesday give way to increasing sunshine by afternoon with highs in the mid 70s and lows in the 50s as we dry things out.

However, humidity will build mid week into Thursday with highs in the 75-80º range, and although it should be sunny, we could see humidity climb, resulting in upper 60s for dewpoint temps by Thursday, ahead of an Arctic cold front.

This front will move through by Thursday night, and will crash humidity to very low levels, and cool us right back down.

At the same time, we have to watch what is likely going to become Hurricane Fiona as there are signs Fiona will be hovering northeast of the Bahamas around this time, which is not a good location if you don’t appreciate New England hurricanes.

Behind our front, high pressure moves in, with a trough of low pressure to its west.

Hopefully, Fiona is swept seaward by this combo of cold front and high pressure.

However, if Fiona sort of hangs out, hovers, and then ducks and covers as that high moves east of us (while staying north of Fiona), the incoming trough could then direct this hurricane north toward New England by late that following weekend near the end of the month.

All this to say, lots can change, but stay tuned, because there is a potential path that exists which could b ring this storm close to us, which would obviously be problematic.

That’s all for now… have a great day!

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“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