[THURS-7:05AM] WIND ADVISORIES HAVE BEEN HOISTED REGION-WIDE, EXCEPT WHERE HIGH WIND WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT WHICH IS FOR NORTHEAST CT AND SOUTHERN CMASS… FLOOD WATCHES CONTINUE IN SVT… SHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES TONIGHT… WINDS GUST 30-40MPH THIS AFTERNOON, INCREASING TO 45-60MPH LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING… SOME OUTAGES EXPECTED… COLDER AND BLUSTERY FRIDAY… A CLIPPER BRINGS A FEW SNOW SHOWERS SATURDAY MAINLY NORTH OF THE PIKE, CONTINUED BREEZY… SUNDAY IS THE WEEKEND PICK… MILDER NEXT WEEK, RAIN BY MID-WEEK…
TODAY’S DATE: Thursday, February 17, 2022
Good morning everybody, it’s quite mild out there this morning and breezy for some. Gust will increase this afternoon, and rain and even stronger winds will arrive tonight into tomorrow morning with some colder, Clipper-induced snow showers Saturday with more rain next week, but before we dive into the details below, let’s check a note from our local and delicious sponsor, #TandemBagelCo, with a new location in West Springfield, MA.
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***DHTWN WEATHER REPORT***
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DAILY CELESTIAL
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:43am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 5:25pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 10 hours and 42 minutes
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–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 6:30pm this afternoon
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 7:59am tomorrow morning
–MOON PHASE: Just reached full several hours ago, now Waning Gibbous 99.2%
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DAILY TERRESTRIAL (ZoneCast)
ZONE 1 (Northern Region)
Southern VT, Southwest NH, N. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Low/Mid 50s
–Low Temps: Mid 30s/Low 40s
–Wind: Southerly gusts 25-40mph by afternoon, increasing to 45-55mph overnight, northwesterly gusts to 35mph Friday
–Skies: Mostly cloudy
–Precipitation: Some scattered showers possible afternoon, heavier/steadier rains arrive 7-10pm, continue until early morning
ZONE 2 (Central Region)
WMass, N. CMass, N. Litchfield County, C./S. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Mid to Upper 50s
–Low Temps: 40s falling into the 30s by morning
–Wind: Southerly gusts 30-40mph by afternoon, increasing to 45-55mph overnight, northwesterly gusts to 35mph Friday
–Skies: Mostly cloudy
–Precipitation: Some scattered showers possible afternoon, heavier/steadier rains arrive 7-10pm, continue until early morning
ZONE 3 (Southern Region)
S. CMass, S. Litchfield County, NC.CT, & NE.CT
–High Temps: 55-60º
–Low Temps: 40s and 50s falling sharply during the morning
–Wind: Southerly gusts 30-40mph by afternoon, increasing to 50-60mph overnight, northwesterly gusts to 35mph Friday
–Skies: Mostly cloudy
–Precipitation: Some scattered showers possible afternoon, heavier/steadier rains arrive 7-10pm, continue until early morning
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DISCUSSION:
Good morning folks, we are waking up to mild temps well into the 30s and 40s, which bodes well for highs reaching well into the 50s to 60º in spots today (low/mid 50s north, mid to upper 50s south, maybe reaching 60º or 61º in southern Worcester County or northern CT).
This anomalously mild air is being driven by a low center to our northwest and strong high pressure to our southeast, and will help induce a low level jet about a mile up that will be blowing around 60mph all day long.
We won’t see that at the surface, but gusts of 25-40mph out of the south and southwest will surely visit us, so it’ll be mild and windy for much of the late morning and afternoon period.
Any morning breaks of sunshine will disappear as the day wears on, and some scattered showers are possible by afternoon.
However, the main event really comes in overnight into very early Friday morning with heavy rain at times and strong wind gusts that will cause some isolated power outages.
I would say if you especially live in high-elevation, outage-prone areas, charge your devices up and be prepared for an outage overnight, as wind gusts will increase to 40-60mph overnight, with the highest wind gusts in our east zones of northeast CT and southern CMass where High Wind Warnings have been hoisted from 11pm-9am.
Elsewhere, Wind Advisories are up for southerly and southwesterly wind gusts to 50mph, maybe a touch higher in spots.
The steadier rain arrives between 7-11pm from west to east (Pittsfield to Wooossttaahhhhh!), and it will fall heavily at times, but this is a quick moving frontal boundary.
Therefore, aside from some street flooding with puddles and such, flooding is not expected EXCEPT for southern VT where Flood Watches are up due to ice jam potential, which may affect the Walloomsac River in Bennington County and other smaller streams up that way in Bennington and Windham Counties.
The cold front moves through early tomorrow morning, and a thin line of convection may create a dramatic frontal passage between 7-9am tomorrow morning with a burst of heavy rain and strong wind.
Temps will hang in the 40s and 50s overnight!
Then they will fall dramatically behind the front, and continue falling all day long into the 30s, and then 20s late, bottoming out into the low teens Friday night as we clear out.
Friday will be blustery as well, gusting 25-35mph out of the northwest as sunshine breaks out, with slackening wind later Friday night with clearing skies.
The weekend is mixed, with a Clipper low passing to our north, which will bring some clouds at times, and scattered snow showers with highs in the low to mid 30s.
Blustery westerlies will gust 25 to 35mph at times, so a seasonable February day is expected. Best chance of snow showers will be north of the Pike. Lows will be in the teens.
Sunday is the weekend pick for sure with sunshine and highs in the mid to upper 30s with light wind and lows in the 20s.
For Monday, we’ll start off mild and sunny as Sunday’s high pressure influence passes east off of the Mid-Atlantic coast and turns our flow around from the south again, pushing temps into the upper 40s to low 50s with lows near freezing.
By Tuesday and Wednesday, more showers are expected with highs in the 40s as another frontal boundary slow slides our way.
I hope you have a great day, may The Force Be With You, and I will update you later today on our incoming weather.
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