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Good morning everybody, there is LOTS to talk about. I apologize for the lateness of this report, but at times I must reserve the right to be human, replete with foibles, and most appropriately, sleep deprivation – body said “today, you sleep” and I said “but, but, the people!” and body said “turn off your gray matter, close your pie hole, and snore” and I said “ok zzzzzzzzz”.
DYNAMIC WEATHER CHANGES
We got plenty of rain last night, and I am curious if any folks up in southern VT iced well into last night.
I saw some 32 degree readings earlier when I began writing this report, notably in Dummerston and North Townsend, VT northwest as you head up Route 30.
Let me know if you saw icing late into the night, and what town you were in.
For today, much of the first batch of rain is packing up and heading north for the day.
There is still more showers to our south-southwest that will work through later this afternoon and evening associated with the cold front that will move through overnight.
Highs today will reach the low to mid 40s, though northeast CT should exceed 50 degrees.
Patchy fog will be around at times as well. Not a great day, but at least with time, the showers will relent as the storm’s dry slot pushes through the region.
Later this afternoon, more showers will develop, but should be scattered. While we can’t rule out a rumble of thunder or two, that should occur mainly anywhere from Worcester eastward into EMass.
For tonight, showers should come to an end before midnight, and southerly winds gusting over 20mph should turn out of the west, and begin blowing 30-45mph at times around or after midnight and through at least the first half of Sunday.
Lows tonight will be in the mid to upper 30s, with some low 30s north of Route 2. Watch out for some slippery spots up that way, though hopefully the wind will dry up any standing water.
As our low bombs out into Quebec, west winds will gust Sunday morning 30-45mph, and may even briefly top 50mph in the high passes of WMass and SVT, so a few outages are possible.
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While it will be partly to mostly sunny in the Pioneer Valley and points east and south into SW.NH, CMass and north-central/northeast CT, we will see more clouds over the Litchfields, Berkshires, Taconics, western hilltowns and SVT with scattered lake effect snow showers, especially in the northern Berkshires/Taconics, and SVT, where a few coatings may be laid down by Sunday night.
Highs will be in the mid 30s to low 40s.
Winds will continue to gust to 30mph or so out of the west Sunday night as temps plummet into the teens and low 20s.
For Monday, we will start off mostly sunny, but the storm is moving quicker than originally thought.
This means that by mid to late afternoon, snow will break out across the region as our storm tracks east-northeast out of the Ohio Valley and toward the Jersey coastline.
This could have some minor impacts on the evening commute for Monday.
Thereafter, we have to watch the exact track, as there will still be milder air available just to our south, even though our surface will be cold and in the 20s Monday night.
For now, the best chance for all snow will be north of the Rt. 2 corridor for northernmost MA and S.VT and SW.NH.
For the rest of us, I think we’re going to see a prolonged period of sleet and freezing rain which will cause travel headaches region-wide, and will definitely impact the Tuesday morning commute.
On Tuesday, as the storm tracks east, we should change back to a period of light snow before it quits Tuesday afternoon.
I will refine the forecast for you as we get closer, but that’s how it looks now.
After that, we are cold and fair for Wednesday through Saturday, aside from the potential for snow showers in the high terrain Thursday.
We will see highs in the 20s and 30s with lows in the teens through that period, and then we will need to watch for a potential storm for Sunday, though it appears for now it stays south of us and out to sea.
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