Good morning to you! Aside from a few fog patches, and low cloud areas, we’re sailing into the sunshine, my friends, and it will be a very pleasant day temperature-wise, too.

After that? We’ve got big dynamic changes coming with a potent cold frontal passage tomorrow bringing morning showers and thunderstorms with gusty winds in some of them, temps crashing Thursday night through Saturday morning with a truly blustery, Fall-feel Friday, followed by a sweet weekend with more showers early next week and another reinforcing cool shot of air, 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: 6:36am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 6:49pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 12 hours and 13 minutes
–AUTUMNAL EQUINOX: Arrives this Thursday at 9:03pm

DAILY CELESTIAL (MOON):
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 5:18pm this afternoon
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 2:52am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Northwest
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Northeast
–MOON PHASE: Waning Crescent (19.0%)
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DAILY TERRESTRIAL (ZoneCast)
ZONE 1 (Northern Region)
Southern VT, Southwest NH, N. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Upper 60s to Mid 70s
–Low Temps: Mid to Upper 50s
–Humidity: Comfortable, dewpoints in the 50s
–Wind: Calm then light southwesterly wind
–Skies: Becoming mostly sunny
–Precipitation: A few showers possible toward midnight

ZONE 2 (Central Region)
WMass, N. CMass, N. Litchfield County, C./S. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Mid to Upper 70s
–Low Temps: Upper 50s to Low 60s
–Humidity: Comfortable, dewpoints in the 50s
–Wind: Calm then light southwesterly wind
–Skies: Becoming mostly sunny
–Precipitation: A few showers possible toward midnight

ZONE 3 (Southern Region)
S. CMass, S. Litchfield County, NC.CT, & NE.CT
–High Temps: Mid to Upper 70s
–Low Temps: Upper 50s to Low 60s
–Humidity: Comfortable, dewpoints in the 50s
–Wind: Calm then light southwesterly wind
–Skies: Becoming mostly sunny
–Precipitation: A few showers possible toward midnight
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WEATHER REPORT
Good morning everybody, we’ve got some dynamic changes on the way, so I’m going to jump into double–dash mode (DDM) as there’s lots to run through, so here we go!

–Patchy fog will burn off this morning (not that there is much of it today)
–Any low clouds (mostly in CMass) will also vamoose, and sunshine will develop
–Highs will reach the mid to upper 70s for most of us in the greater WMass region, except more towards the low 70s in SVT and SWNH
–A light southwest wind will develop as we get ready to receive our shift into Autumn with arguably the most perfect timing I’ve seen in years
–Clouds build rapidly tonight as a powerful upper trough swings into the Great Lakes and sends a sharp, Canadian cold front our way
–We could see a few showers or even a thunderstorm over night into the pre-dawn hours, with lows in the mid 50s to low 60s. Some patchy fog is possible
–By early to mid morning, the main event begins to arrive as a powerful cold front with strong wind aloft blows into the WMass region with showers, downpours and thunderstorms
–Some storms or heavier showers may be gusty as they mix stronger wind aloft down to the surface
–This is because it will be much cooler and windier aloft, and those sharper temperature gradients from surface to sky (a/k/a lapse rates) will be steep
–Showers and thunderstorms sweep through from west to east basically between 9am to 4pm from west to east, but worst should be through WMass, SVT and northwest CT by mid day
–Dewpoints and temps will plummet from highs in the mid 60s to near 70º range down into the 50s bye late afternoon, bottoming out in the low to mid 40s at night
–Northwest winds will gust 25-40mph on Friday, and it will be a fully Fall day, so bundle up!
–Highs will only reach the mid to upper 50s for a day under sunny skies, and it will feel like temps are in the 40s at times
–Lows will drop into the 35-40º range and patchy frost will be possible
–The weekend looks lovely with highs in the low to mid 60s Saturday under sunny skies with lows in the 40s, and highs on Sunday should reach the 65-70º range with lows near 50º as clouds build at night
–Early next week should feature some scattered showers as an upper trough and cold pool aloft move overhead and destabilize the atmosphere in our cooler pattern
–Highs will be in the mid to upper 60s generally with lows in the upper 40s as Autumn begins to settle in, and as eastern Nova Scotia begins a long cleanup from wind and flood damage from Fiona
–We dodged a huge bullet with this storm, so as the cold front swings through tomorrow, look skyward and thank it profusely #OurHero

That’s all for now… have a great day!

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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