Good morning folks, I know some of you have friends and family down in FL that have been impacted by Hurricane Ian and I want to send my heartfelt wishes of recovery and strength to those folks who were in some cases devastated by the storm yesterday. The combination of the storm’s power and its slow movement provided unrelenting brutal conditions for hours. I saw all the footage but I choose not to lambaste this page with it, as I generally keep things local/regional here, but know that I’m thinking of the folks down there today (my Twitter feed can expand out of region at times).

As for our region, we’ve got some cloudiness in southern VT, the Berkshires, northwestern hilltowns, but with time mostly sunny skies develop with high clouds south and east.

Generally we’ll have fair weather today and tomorrow with a chance for showers from the northern shield of Hurricane Ian that may reach up to the Pike (or further north), with a drier but windier Sunday followed by fair weather into next week with a late week cool blast, but before we jump into the details, 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
–Frost Advisories posted for the Berkshires, Taconics, and southern VT.

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: 6:45am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 6:35pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 11 hours and 50 minutes

DAILY CELESTIAL (MOON):
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 8:35pm tonight
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 12:05pm tomorrow afternoon
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Southwest
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Southeast
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent (13.9%)
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DAILY TERRESTRIAL (ZoneCast)
ZONE 1 (Northern Region)
Southern VT, Southwest NH, N. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Mid 50s to Low 60s
–Low Temps: Low to Mid 30s
–Humidity: Low
–Wind: Light Northwest
–Skies: Mostly cloudy early, then mostly sunny
–Precipitation: None

ZONE 2 (Central Region)
WMass, N. CMass, N. Litchfield County, C./S. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Upper 50s to Mid 60s
–Low Temps: Mid 30s to Low 40s
–Humidity: Low
–Wind: Light Northwest
–Skies: Mostly cloudy early in western parts of this zone, otherwise mostly sunny with high clouds later in eastern areas
–Precipitation: None

ZONE 3 (Southern Region)
S. CMass, S. Litchfield County, NC.CT, & NE.CT
–High Temps: Low to Mid 60s
–Low Temps: Low to Mid 40s
–Humidity: Low
–Wind: Light Northwest
–Skies: Mostly sunny, with high clouds later in eastern areas later
–Precipitation: None
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WEATHER REPORT
Good morning everybody, fortunately for us we missed Hurricane Fiona and likely will only experience minimal if any impacts from Ian or its remnants, but it’s a very tough go for folks in Atlantic Canada and southwest and central FL today.

Because double–dashes are so cheery and filled with vim, vigor, and the kind of stuff that makes one’s big toe shoot up in their boot (as Little Richard once said about Jimi Hendrix’s influence on him), I will bestow upon you a digital and virtual cornucopia of them for you to skim through this morning, so here goes:

–Massive high pressure moving in from the west finally boots the lazy upper level trough responsible for our recent scattered showers out to sea
–This will produce more sunshine today, but with light northwest flow around the high, it’ll be cooler with highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s from north to south
–Some high clouds will build into northern CT or southern MA from Ian’s high cloud deck, but a fair day awaits
–For tonight, barring a more pronounced overspreading of said high clouds, it’s expected that we’ll see mostly clear skies, calm wind, and dry air
–This will maximize radiational cooling and allow lows to drop into the low to mid 30s in the Taconics, Berkshires, western hilltowns and southern VT/southwest NH, and the upper 30s to low 40s further south and east in the valley, CMass and CT
–Patchy frost is possible outside of the Frost Advisory zones (Berkshires, Taconics, and SVT)
–On Friday, high clouds may build in a bit more, but a mostly sunny day is expected with highs in the low to mid 60s and lows in the low 40s
–The weekend should feature more clouds than sunshine, especially on Saturday
–This is because as high pressure tracks into our region it’ll be pressed upon from the south by Ian’s northerly rain shower shield, and we could see scattered showers by Saturday morning into northern CT
–Highs will reach the low to mid 60s, and we may see some showers reach up to the level of the Pike and possibly a little farther north, though SVT/SWNH should stay mostly dry
–A few showers may linger Saturday night with lows in the 40s before the high pushes showers southeast and away from us, while another high builds in from the north on Sunday
–This northerly high combines with Ian to the south to produce northeast wind gusts of 20-30mph at times under partly sunny skies with highs in the upper 50s to low 60s and lows in the upper 30s
–Fair weather returns early next week with similar high and low temps
–Then we’ll watch to see if a piece of Ian’s remnants can form a storm off of the Mid-Atlantic to bring some more mid-week showers to our region, prior to another cool blast arriving by late next week
–Autumn is settling in, and I hope you 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