[COLD AND FAIR TODAY AND TOMORROW, WITH MIXED RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY MONDAY… POSSIBLE GRAZING WITH MIXED SHOWERS FOR CMASS AND NORTHEAST CT TUESDAY… MILDER AND WETTER XMAS EVE/DAY… THEN COLDER… LAST FEW DAYS OF DECEMBER INTO JANUARY MAY SEE MORE STORMINESS DUE TO MULTIPLE DISTURBANCES AND COLD AIR NEARBY… 8:35AM FRIDAY]
Good morning everybody, well it’s certainly a winter wonderland out there today!
It’s also cold with temps in the teens and 20s under mostly cloudy skies for the moment.
As high pressure builds in from the north, skies will break up and reveal a partly to mostly sunny day with highs in the mid 20s to low 30s with a light north wind.
For tonight, the bottom drops out in the temperature department. Mostly clear skies, very dry air, and light to calm wind will maximize radiational cooling, and allow temps to drop to the single digits BELOW zero and above zero from high terrain to low terrain areas.
#WickedCold
Saturday will be the pick of the weekend, with highs around the freezing mark and mostly sunny skies with light winds as a high pressure ridge passes south of our region and heads out to sea
#BuhByeLittleHigh
Lows will drop into the mid to upper teens Saturday night as clouds slowly build in.
On Sunday it will be mostly cloudy, and a weak wave will move through the region, bringing a few scattered snow or rain showers in the afternoon and night time hours. Highs will reach the low to mid 30s with lows in the mid 20s. Not much accumulation is expected, if any.
Monday and Tuesday look mostly cloudy from the late weekend departing weak wave, and also due to an incoming coastal storm on Tuesday that will likely stay far enough east of us as to not have an impact, though I will continue to monitor for light impacts to CMass or northeast CT.
Highs both days will reach the mid to upper 30s as we move to more seasonable temperature levels as we pass the Winter Solstice on Monday. Lows will be in the 20s.
Wednesday looks like fair weather with highs in the 30s to near 40s and then a storm will be passing to our northwest through the Great Lakes Thursday into Friday, which will cause us to warm up into the 40s on the 24th and 25th, with rainy conditions on Christmas Even possible, lasting into the morning of Christmas Day.
After that, we should cool down the following weekend.
I will be paying close attention to the pattern for the last few days of this month into the New Year, as the attached graphic’s blue/green blobs indicate a number of disturbances that will pass over the United States, and with blocking high pressure near the Arctic, cold air will be available to possibly create more winter storms.
Stay tuned, and have a great day!