[WED-7:00AM] WATCH FOR BLACK ICE PATCHES THIS MORNING… MORE SNOW SHOWERS OVERNIGHT WITH LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS NORTH AND WEST, AND COATINGS POSSIBLE IN THE VALLEY… COLDER AND FAIR LATE WEEK… SATURDAY IS THE PICK OF THE WEEKEND WITH DRY CONDITIONS AND INCREASING CLOUDS, UNSETTLED SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY… IF YOU RELY ON MY REPORTING, CONSIDER CONTRIBUTING TODAY TO HELP SUSTAIN IT TOMORROW AND THROUGH 2022, AS WE TEND TO THE PLANTS WE WANT TO GROW…
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TODAY’S DATE: Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Good morning folks, we’ve got patches of black ice out there on side roads this morning due to rain and snow that fell last night and froze in spots. Otherwise, we’ve got more light snow on the way tonight with more storminess expected by late in the weekend extending into early next week, but before we dive into today’s weather 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: 6:23am this morning
–OUR STAR WILL SET AT: 5:41pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 11 hours and 18 minutes
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–OUR MOON ROSE AT: 6:46am this morning
–OUR MOON WILL SET AT: 5:41pm this afternoon
–MOON PHASE: New Moon
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DAILY TERRESTRIAL (ZoneCast)
ZONE 1 (Northern Region)
Southern VT, Southwest NH, N. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Low to Mid 30s
–Low Temps: Upper Teens to Low 20s
–Wind: Northwesterly winds gusting 10-20mph
–Skies: Mostly sunny
–Precipitation: Dry today and this evening, snow showers arrive toward midnight, a coating to 2″ possible by dawn
ZONE 2 (Central Region)
WMass, N. CMass, N. Litchfield County, C./S. Taconics NY
–High Temps: Mid 30s to Low 40s
–Low Temps: Mid to Upper 20s
–Wind: Northwesterly winds gusting 10-20mph
–Skies: Mostly sunny
–Precipitation: Dry today and this evening, snow showers arrive toward midnight, a coating to 1″ possible by dawn, some southern parts of this zone may see no accumulation
ZONE 3 (Southern Region)
S. CMass, S. Litchfield County, NC.CT, & NE.CT
–High Temps: Low 40s
–Low Temps: Upper 20s to Low 30s
–Wind: Northwesterly winds gusting 10-20mph
–Skies: Mostly sunny
–Precipitation: Dry today and this evening, snow showers arrive toward midnight, may be mixed with rain in the CT River Valley, some scattered coatings possible by dawn
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DISCUSSION:
Good morning everybody, we’re still here, we’re still up and taking nourishment as my Dad is famous for saying, so let’s make the best we can of the day, and as Kurt Vonnegut would approve, try to be kind to others and yourself.
As for our weather, folks in the Berkshires, western hilltowns and SVT saw a coating to an inch or so last night while the Pioneer Valley saw mostly rain showers as we were too warm to snow in the WMass Snow Lovers Triangle of Disappointment.
Man, to be a snow lover in the valley during this winter has surely been EXTRA disappointing!
For today, a beautiful day looks to unfold with mostly sunny skies expected, with a few high clouds building late ahead of our next Clipper system that pushes snow showers into the region around or just before midnight.
Highs today will be in the low 30s in parts of southern VT up to the low 40s in northern CT with mid to upper 30s in much of WMass, cresting 40º in a few spots.
Winds will generally be lighter with gusts up to 20mph possible out of the northwest.
Clouds will build in tonight with lows into the 20s mostly (a few upper teens in SVT, and some low 30s in northern CT).
Our Clipper will pass to our north, and will spread in a batch of snow showers that will mainly swing through between say 11pm-5am the way it looks now.
This should lay down fresh coatings in many parts of the WMass region, with 1-2″ possible along and north of the Rt. 2 corridor in MA, VT and NH, as well as the Berkshires and western hilltowns, and some 1″ amounts possible in northern Worcester County.
These aforementioned Clipper activities shall sweep to the east and out of here by tomorrow morning, and in its wake, a blustery northwest flow will set up with gusts of 20-30mph from fresh cold air advection out of Canada.
Highs under mostly sunny skies will only reach the upper 20s to low 30s on both Thursday and Friday with very cold lows in the single digits Thursday night. We’ll drop into the teens on Friday night, with a very dry end to the work week.
For the weekend, Saturday is most definitely the weekend’s pick, with a partly sunny day expected with highs in the 35-40º range.
Clouds will increase at night, as yet another low is expected to pass to our north, and its arrival overnight may allow for a period of snow or sleet to form late.
Any wintry precip would change to rain by Sunday morning, with showers expected during Sunday and highs climbing into the low to mid 50s as milder air surges into the region behind a warm front.
Early next week looks unsettled as well, with another storm developing along a stalled frontal boundary for Tuesday, and while it most likely means more rain, if the front settles south, we could get on the cold side of the system for some wintry precipitation, but I will refine that as we get closer.
Overall, next week looks milder, so we’re slowly making our way toward the Vernal Equinox!
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