Good morning folks, I hope you slept well last night. I’ve been learning more and more about how good sleep is essential for good health.

Anyway, we have patchy dense fog out there this morning with some scattered showers today, a sweet Wednesday tomorrow, more rain and an air mass change for Thursday, the coldest day yet on Friday with patchy frost possible on Saturday morning with a nice weekend ahead, 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: 6:35am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 6:51pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 12 hours and 16 minutes
–AUTUMNAL EQUINOX: Arrives this Thursday at 9:03pm

DAILY CELESTIAL (MOON):
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 4:44pm this afternoon
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 1:48am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Northwest
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: Northeast
–MOON PHASE: Waning Crescent (27.2%)
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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 Temps: Low 50s
–Humidity: Fairly comfortable, dewpoints either side of 60º
–Wind: Light westerly wind
–Skies: Mix of sun and clouds
–Precipitation: Scattered showers

ZONE 2 (Central Region)
WMass, N. CMass, N. Litchfield County, C./S. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Upper 60s to Mid 70s
–Low Temps: Low to Mid 50s
–Humidity: Fairly comfortable, dewpoints either side of 60º
–Wind: Light westerly wind
–Skies: Mix of sun and clouds
–Precipitation: Scattered showers

ZONE 3 (Southern Region)
S. CMass, S. Litchfield County, NC.CT, & NE.CT
–High Temps: Upper 60s to Mid 70s
–Low Temps: Mid to Upper 50s
–Humidity: Fairly comfortable, dewpoints either side of 60º
–Wind: Light westerly wind
–Skies: Mix of sun and clouds
–Precipitation: Scattered showers
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WEATHER REPORT
Good morning everybody, we’ve got some patchy dense fog out there as mentioned, so it’ll be slow going for some but it will burn off later this morning and reveal a day with more clouds than sunshine, though some sunnier periods are possible earlier on.

We have a departing upper level trough in New England (i.e. an area aloft with lower pressure), and that will be spinning east through our region today.

As such, unsettled conditions will produce broad but modest lift and combine with colder air aloft to produce scattered showers over the region at any point today.

However, a big upper ridge (i.e. an area aloft of higher pressure) is dominating the center of the country and pushing east, so this feature will help scoot our unsettled weather east and away by tonight… Shoo!!

Highs today will reach the mid 60s to mid 70s from north to south in the greater WMass region, and lows tonight will dip into the 50s. Clouds will persist for a time with patchy dense fog late, but we’ll be developing sunshine on Wednesday as that ridge asserts itself.

Expect a delightful, mostly sunny Wednesday with a shifting light northwest to southwest wind as the day wears on, with highs in the low to mid 70s, with some upper 70s possible in the southern valley.

Clouds will quickly build in the evening, however, as a sharp Canadian cold front tracks toward New England at night.

Scattered showers will develop by midnight, and we can’t rule out a thunderstorm either. Lows will drop into the 50s.

The first half of Thursday looks showery at times, culminating with a squall line of heavier showers that sweeps the region with the cold front around mid-day.

Highs will only reach the mid 60s to low 70s with a northwest wind picking up and gusting 20-30mph Thursday night into Friday with lows in the low 40s as much cooler and drier air arrives, along with the start of Astronomical Autumn.

On Friday, the first full day of Autumn will be perfectly-timed as the coolest day of the incoming cold season will visit our neighborhoods, as highs should only reach the low to upper 50s with northwest winds gusting 20-30mph, making it feel like it’s in the 40s all day!!

Blustery conditions are a’comin’, folks!

Not only that, but if the wind sits down enough Friday night (which remains to be seen) we could see lows in the mid to upper 30s with some patchy frost possible.

The weekend looks gorgeous, sunny, and pleasant with highs 60-65º on Saturday with lows in the 40s, and then 65-70º on Sunday with highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s. Low humidity and light wind is expected.

Monday starts off dry, but another cold front will be arriving with more showers by early next week to cool us back down as we surge over 70º to start the work week.

We also then watch what may become the second major Atlantic hurricane of the season working into the Gulf next week. This system may strike the panhandle of FL and get swept northward and up into a frontal boundary tracking east through the center of the U.S., which would then hopefully rain out over New England.

It’s too early to know with any certainty if this scenario will come to pass, but that is one of two types of drought-mitigating rainstorms that we need as we shift into Autumn to mitigate our drought (the other is colder air pushing into our northwest and helping to develop rainy coastal nor’easters).

To be clear, I don’t wish tropical cyclones on anyone, but that’s how the sky water gets redistributed into New England sometimes.

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