>>> YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS <<<
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:18am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 7:19pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 13 hours and 1 minute
MOON:
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT 9:47pm this evening
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Northeast
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 1:00pm tomorrow afternoon
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Northwest
–MOON PHASE: Waning Gibbous (74.2%)
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>>> DAVE’S WEEKLY WEATHER NUTSHELL <<<
–It’s quite simple, folks, and breaks down into three sections
–1. Increasingly very warm to hot, and humid, today through Thursday, highs mid 80s to low 90s, lows 60s, to eventually near 70º or so by Wed/Thurs
–2. A trough swings into the region, and pivots disturbances through starting late Thursday night into Friday, and likely through the weekend with periods of showers and/or t-storms with lulls mixed in, timing of which TBD
–3. Drier and much cooler into the following week, after which I am watching the upper level pattern and the tropics to monitor potential tropical impacts up in our region,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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>>> MORNING DISCUSSION <<<
Good morning everybody, we’ve got legit late summer weather kicking in for this Labor Day and through much of the upcoming week with highs 85-90º today, and more like mid/upper 80s to low 90s Tuesday through Thursday, with the Thursday bringing the peak heat and humidity.
We’ll have patchy fog in spots each morning as morning temps cool to match the slightly increasing dewpoints through the week, and it will be dense at times like it has been in eastern Franklin County, and southwest NH this morning where a Dense Fog Advisory recently expired.
Lows will be in the 60s through the week, and sunshine will reign much of the time. With increased humidity comes slightly decreased air quality, and there is some departing wildfire smoke noted today.
By late Thursday into Friday (and continuing likely through next weekend) an upper level trough dips into the Great Lakes, slides east, and sends waves into our region during that period with scattered showers and thunderstorms and humid conditions, with temps descending from the 80s Friday into the 70s over the weekend as a cold front eventually works into and through the region by end of the weekend.
Temps should be tamped quite a bit next week from this week, so #SummahLovahs need to get outside and soak it up this week… get to the beach and enjoy if you can!
As we cool down next week, possibly into the 60s and 70s for highs, I will be watching the tropics, as a hurricane continues to be signaled for that timeframe, likely northeast of the windward islands of the Caribbean Sea and north of the Bahamas.
Some guidance is beginning to show the classic northwest Atlantic ridge and southern Mississippi into southeast U.S. trough configuration that has sent hurricanes north and into New England.
Every weather person (meteorologist, or enthusiast like myself) in New England knows that a redux of the Hurricane of 1938 (which blew through WMass almost 85 years ago on 9/21/38) is going to happen again.
I hope it doesn’t happen in my lifetime or yours, but I am watching this pattern closely as the days go by.
But for now, it’s just a signal, and what we KNOW is Summah will surge this week, so enjoy, and Happy Labor Day!
P.S. I arrived in this region exactly 35 years ago this morning, and never could have imagined I would be doing what I’m doing, and how amazing an audience I’d have to which I’d get to communicate my love of weather, which I possessed even back then. Thank you!
>>> 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