A COLD NIGHT AHEAD WORTHY OF WOOD STOVES AND FIREPLACES… SMOKE ‘EM IF YA GOT ‘EM… SOME LIGHT WINTRY MIX POSSIBLE VERY LATE WED. NIGHT INTO VERY EARLY THURS. AM (NO BIG WHOOP)… VERY MILD AND RAINY FRIDAY, COOLER THIS WEEKEND, AND LIGHT SNOW POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY…. (6:30pm Tues)
Good evening everybody, no big load of details tonight, just some bullet points about our upcoming sensible weather, which looks rather tame compared to what we’ve been through. Friday into Saturday could produce some drama, but otherwise, we’re coasting a bit, which is a nice reprieve after this cold season.
SUMMARY
–Winds will continue to slacken tonight, and with clear skies and dry air, radiational cooling will produce low temps in the teens so do some bundle-upping if you’re heading out
–For tomorrow, high pressure crests overhead and produces a partly sunny day with highs in the low to mid 40s
–Clouds will build in the afternoon, and frontal boundary will move at us late Wednesday night and touch off some light, scattered mixed showers
–Lows will be in the 20s, so snow, sleet or freezing rain is possible, but should be light and isolated
–After that feature passes us by, Thursday turns into a robust southwesterly flow with partly sunny skies and highs cresting the 50 degree mark!
–Lows Thursday night will stay above freezing, somewhere in the mid to upper 30s and showers of rain will be possible late
–Friday will have us in the grips of a southerly, moist, and warm flow
–Highs will be well into the 50s, pushing toward 60 degrees possibly in southern CMass or northeastern CT, with rain, heavy at times
–Winds may gust pretty strongly in heavier downpours, as well
–This all precedes a cold frontal passage which moves through Friday night, when lows will drop into the mid to upper 30s with rain quitting between 9pm-midnight
–Saturday and Sunday look like partly sunny days with cooler highs in the mid 40s Saturday and ow 40s Sunday
–Lows will drop into the 20s each night
–By Sunday night, we have to watch for a Clipper low which may produce light accumulating snow across the region
–However, this is not looking like a big deal, and may turn out to be not much ado about nothing
Ok, I hope you have a great night, and while I’ll put a halt to it by tomorrow night, I am floating my Annual Support Drive link out there because some folks told me they intended to support my work this year but missed the deadline, so the link is below for those folks who want to back my work here. Thanks!
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COOLER TODAY, COLD TONIGHT, NICE TOMORROW, MILDER THURSDAY, VERY MILD AND RAINY FRIDAY, COOLER AND CALMER WEEKEND… IN OTHER NEWS, ICE STORMS HAVE BEEN TOLD TO GO POUND SAND UNTIL NEXT COLD SEASON … (6:15am Tues)
TODAY’S DATE: Tuesday, March 12, 2019
TERRESTRIAL:
HIGH AIR TEMPS: Highs should rise into the mid 30s in the Berkshires/Taconics/Litchfields, western hilltowns, SVT/SWNH, and N. Worcester County, while we reach the low 40s for the Pioneer Valley floor down into northern CT and in S. Worcester County.
LOW AIR TEMPS: Lows should drop into the teens region-wide
SKIES: Partly to mostly sunny skies
WINDS: Northwest winds will gust to 25mph at times today, and will slacken later tonight
NWS ALERTS: None
CELESTIAL:
–OUR STAR WILL RISE AT: 7:07am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 6:53pm this evening
–OUR MOON WILL RISE AT: 10:23am this morning
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 12:58am tomorrow morning
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent
SUMMARY:
–Good morning everybody, northwest flow takes over today behind a cold frontal passage
–Winds should gust to 25mph or so at times, and with cooler air working in, it’ll be a bit blustery, so bundle up for a late winter day
–Winds slacken tonight, and with clear skies and dry air, radiational cooling will be optimized and produce a cold night, with a widespread refreeze of snow melting operations
–Watch out for black ice late tonight and early tomorrow morning
–Wednesday will be mostly sunny with highs low to mid 40s as high pressure crests overhead
–A warm front will follow on the high’s heels (the heels of the high, if you will), and allow clouds to build at night with lows in the upper 20s
–A rain or snow shower is possible into Thursday morning
–With southwesterly flow establishing itself on Thursday, highs will reach the low 50s under partly to mostly sunny skies
–Lows will drop into the mid to upper 30s with showers possible after midnight
–Friday will feature low pressure passing northeast through the Great Lakes, allowing a moisture tap from the Deep South northward into our region
–As such, it looks to be a rainy day with downpours possible and highs well into the 50s
–The weekend will be cooler with highs in the 40s Saturday and 30s on Sunday with fair weather
–More showery weather is possible by next Monday night into Tuesday
–All in all, I think we can handle this! Have a great day!
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