STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED BY LATER AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH LOCALIZED DAMAGING WINDS AND SMALL HAIL POSSIBLE… DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR CMASS THROUGH 10AM… MORNING STORMS FOR SOME HAVE DISSIPATED OR MOVED AWAY… A WARM FRONT PUSHES THROUGH, AND PARTIAL SUN DEVELOPS THIS AFTERNOON WITH HIGH HUMIDITY AND WARMER TEMPS… STORMS TRACK THROUGH 4-9PM… SUNNY THURSDAY, PARTIALLY SUNNY FRIDAY WITH AFTERNOON SHOWERS/STORMS… SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY ANOTHER FRONT SEMI-STALLS OVER US WITH MORE SHOWERY WEATHER ON THE WAY… 7:05AM WED…

Good morning everybody, a few of us had a light show earlier this morning before dawn, specifically in the southwestern hilltowns of Hampden County, Hampshire County, southeast Berkshire County and the northern Litchfields. Another just dissipated out of Tolland County CT.

This activity wanes into a few showers, with patchy dense fog being a concern east of the I-91 corridor, especially in Worcester County this morning. This should slowly mix out by 10am or so.

For the rest of today, we’ll see a warm front continue to lift northeast through the region, and as a result, dewpoint temps will rise into oppressive levels, reaching the low to mid 70s, with highs in the low to mid 80s as partial sunshine develops during the afternoon.

This surface heating along with decent mid-level lapse rates and plenty of instability and moisture will combine with a disturbance to generate lines of strong to severe thunderstorms across the WMass region later today, mainly between 4-9pm.

The main impact from these storms would be locally damaging winds and small hail.

This activity will wane after sunset, and lows will dip into the low to mid 60s with patchy fog again possible late, after midnight.

For Thursday, patchy morning fog burns off and it looks like we’ll get a mostly sunny day with highs in the mid to upper 80s.

I’ll say it again, patchy morning fog burns off and it looks like we’ll get a mostly sunny day with highs in the mid to upper 80s.

In fact, I’ll say it one. more. time…. patchy morning fog burns off and it looks like we’ll get a mostly sunny day with highs in the mid to upper 80s.

Lows will be in the mid to upper 60s with humid conditions.

For Friday, more sunshine is expected along with what will be the hottest day of the week, with highs rising into the mid 80s to low 90s, and dewpoints in the upper 60s to low 70s. As a prefrontal trough area starts to nudge into the region, we can expected a few scattered showers or thunderstorms Friday afternoon and evening, with lows in the upper 60s.

Then we move into our poopy weekend (a technical term).

A frontal boundary will be slowly pressing in from the northwest, and will focus more periods of showers with thunderstorms at times across the WMass region both Saturday and Sunday.

It won’t be raining the whole time, but we’ll get substantially more rainfall at times.

Highs will be in the low to mid 80s Saturday, and upper 70s to low 80s Sunday with lows in the 60s.

By early next week, there are the faintest signs of moving out of the rainy morass, but let’s not get our hopes up just yet, as we need to see how this weekend’s weather evolves before getting more clarity on next week.

For now, at least we’ll see some sunshine over the next 2-3 days, so that’s at least step in the right direction, but keep an eye west today, as some thunderstorms could really get cranked up, and I will keep you updated.

Hope things go well for you today…