[FRI-6:50AM] A SQUALL LINE IS TRAVERSING THE AREA FROM WEST TO EAST THIS MORNING AND WILL BRING A FINAL ROUND OF BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS… THEN OUR COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH WITH NW WINDS AND TEMPS FALLING 15-20 DEGREES RAPIDLY FIRST, THEN THEY’LL FALL FURTHER THIS AFTERNOON.. SNOW SHOWERS TOMORROW WITH POTENTIAL FOR SNOW SQUALLS AND BRIEF NEAR-WHITEOUT CONDITIONS… SUNDAY IS THE WEEKEND PICK, MILD NEXT WEEK WITH RAIN BY TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY AND ANOTHER STORM LATE WEEK…
TODAY’S DATE: Friday, February 18, 2022
Good morning everybody, it’s very mild out this morning, and a squall line has been traversing the region with briefly heavy rain and a burst of wind gusts. Colder air will quickly drop temps by 15-20º behind the cold front by later morning. Snow showers and snow squalls capable of brief whiteout conditions are possible tomorrow afternoon with more storms 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: 6:42am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 5:26pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 10 hours and 44 minutes
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–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 7:38pm this evening
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 8:22am tomorrow morning
–MOON PHASE: Just reached full several hours ago, now Waning Gibbous 96.5%
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DAILY TERRESTRIAL (ZoneCast)
ZONE 1 (Northern Region)
Southern VT, Southwest NH, N. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Highs have been reached this morning, temps will crash 15-20º by mid/late morning, fall slowly this afternoon
–Low Temps: High single digits to low teens
–Wind: Southerly gusts to 50mph very early, then out of the northwest with gusts 25-40mph at times, lighter tonight
–Skies: Cloudy early with mostly sunny skies developing
–Precipitation: Final squall line of showers moves through, then drying
ZONE 2 (Central Region)
WMass, N. CMass, N. Litchfield County, C./S. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Highs have been reached this morning, temps will crash 15-20º by mid/late morning, fall slowly this afternoon
–Low Temps: Low to mid teens
–Wind: Southerly gusts to 50mph very early, then out of the northwest with gusts 25-40mph at times, lighter tonight
–Skies: Cloudy early with mostly sunny skies developing
–Precipitation: Final squall line of showers moves through, then drying
ZONE 3 (Southern Region)
S. CMass, S. Litchfield County, NC.CT, & NE.CT
–High Temps: Highs have been reached this morning, temps will crash 15-20º by mid/late morning, fall slowly this afternoon
–Low Temps: Mid to upper teens
–Wind: Southerly gusts to 50mph very early, then out of the northwest with gusts 25-40mph at times, lighter tonight
–Skies: Cloudy early with mostly sunny skies developing
–Precipitation: Final squall line of showers moves through, then drying
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DISCUSSION:
Good morning folks, we received about a quarter inch to a full inch of rain overnight with max wind gusts of 35-50mph, and now our final squall line is pushing through the region this morning, in the Pioneer Valley as I type with a final bout of heavier rain and gusty winds.
After this line moves through, our cold front will move through, and temps are already down 20º in eastern NY into the 30s, so we can expect a rapid drop in temperatures through the morning with sunshine developing and a wind shift out of the northwest, gusting 25-40mph by late morning and through the afternoon and early evening with temps in the 30s by afternoon, and 20s first part of tonight, bottoming out in the teens overnight, so watch for patches of black ice tomorrow morning, though the wind should do a good job of drying some surfaces today.
For tomorrow, a Clipper system will track to our north, but will bring a period of snow showers through the region starting by mid to late morning in the Berkshires and SVT and spreading east throughout the greater WMass region into the afternoon.
In fact, signals continue to grow for a line of strong snow squalls that could produce near-whiteout conditions. That line would pass through our region between 3-6pm from west to east, and with the Clipper snow showers, snow squalls ahead of the cold front, and some upslope snow showers behind the front in the Berkshires, Taconics, western hilltowns and SVT, we could see a coating to 2″ of snow, mainly north of the MA/CT state line, and we can’t rule out 3″ if these squalls come together.
Highs Saturday will be in the low to mid 30s with west winds gusting 25-35mph, so it’ll be quite a wintry day more typical of February than we experienced over the past couple of days. Lows will be in the upper single digits to mid teens.
Sunday is the pick of the weekend with mostly sunny skies, calmer winds, and highs reaching the low to mid 30s with lows in the 20s.
By Monday, high pressure south of us will continue to track east, starting up the southwesterly flow siphon, which will push our temps up into the upper 40s to low 50s as our seesaw continues. It should be mostly sunny, which means a great day for a lunchtime walk. Lows will be in the upper 20s to low 30s with clouds increasing.
By Tuesday and Wednesday, another battlezone front of milder moister air southeast and colder drier air northwest will set up in the middle of the country and slide east again like we just dealt with overnight.
This will push more rainfall into milder temps, reaching the 40s Tuesday and well into the 50s on Wednesday with rain showers before another cold front moves through Wednesday night into Thursday.
Late week continues to look colder folks, and potentially wintry with a storm on Friday that could bring at least mixed precipitation if not snow, so stay tuned for updates, as our busy pattern continues.
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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