TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Daily Celestials (Sun/Moon Data)
* Sponsor Note
* Morning Discussion
* TIP: Scroll below for sections, or read all
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YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
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STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:34am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 7:15pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 12 hours and 41 minutes
MOON:
–OUR MOON ROSE AT: 7:30am this morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Northeast
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 10:34pm tonight
–MOON SET DIRECTION: West-Northwest
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent (6.1%)
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A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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YOUR MORNING DISCUSSION
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Good morning everybody, we have some showers moving through this morning and some areas in SVT and SWNH are still at or just below freezing, so some ongoing icing may be occurring.
We also have patchy dense fog which has resulted in Dense Fog Advisories being hoisted this morning for a good portion of WMass east of the Berkshires, CMass and northern CT east of the Litchfield Hills. Patchy drizzle is also possible.
Notably in southwest VT, we’re seeing a 26-degree difference in temps over a 10 mile span with 30º up on the mountain, and 56º down near Route 7 north of Bennington.
This indicates that very mild air is set to flood our region today as the warm front continues tracking northeast of us, along with the low-pressure system well northwest of us.
This motion draws warmer air through western MA and should help to push highs into the 60s for many of us today, with some upper 50s in SVT and some low 70s in northern CT near Hartford.
South-southwest winds will pick up and gust 20-35mph ahead of the incoming cold front that moves through tonight.
During the mid day to mid afternoon timeframe a batch of steadier / heavier showers likely moves from southwest to northeast through our region, although a shower is possible at any time today.
Once we get to late afternoon and early evening, we could see some scattered downpours or even a thunderstorm or two as the main line of heavier showers associated with our cold front sweeps the region after 8pm and into the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning with lows dropping into the mid 30s to low 40s with some wet snow mixing into SVT as the front pulls east and away.
For Tuesday, temps will be noticeably cooler compared to today as northwest winds gust to 30mph. Highs will reach the mid 40s to low 50s under partly to mostly sunny skies, with cold lows in the upper teens to mid 20s.
Wednesday looks lovely, with highs in the 45-50º range under mostly sunny skies, with clouds increasing at night as the next warm front approaches our region.
Low temps will drop to about the low to mid 30s before halting their descent as clouds thicken and precipitation moves in, which should be mostly light. Still, some sleet and freezing rain along and north of the Rt. 2 corridor could bring more light icing there.
Otherwise, everybody will see and/or change to rain for Thursday with much milder highs behind the front reaching the mid to upper 60s, with lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
We finish the week with another very mild day with highs in the 60s and a few showers possible as another cold front moves into the region.
At this point, Saturday looks like the weekend pick (especially Saturday morning) with partial sunshine giving way to mostly cloudy skies by afternoon. A shower will be possible late with highs reaching the mid 40s to low 50s.
Another storm system will be approaching our region bringing more rain Saturday night into Sunday with lows in the mid to upper 30s and highs mainly in the 45-50º range, so we will continue to lay groundwater in as our active pattern continues with systems every few days through our region.
I want to close this report by saying THANK YOU VERY MUCH to everybody who supported me and my work financially during this recent support drive, as well as to those who voted for me in The Valley Advocate’s Readers’ Poll in which I was voted “best of” in two categories this year (Best Local Meteorologist, and Best Local Biz Facebook Page) which is a first for me.
I’m looking forward to working for you throughout 2025 and keeping my reports churning through every storm, and please look out for my free mobile app which goes into final testing this week, after which we’ll fine tune a few things and hope to release it ASAP in April / next month, and I hope you will help spread the word far and wide!
Have a great day, and I hope something unexpectedly good happens to and for you today!
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