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Good morning folks, we’re starting off mild this morning, with temps in the mid/upper 30s to low 40s and west winds are already coming up over 30mph.
Part of what helps wind mix down to the surface where we experience it has to do with thermal lapse rates. When either the temps aloft cool down while surface temps stay the same or rise, that creates a gradient of warm below and cold above, which transfers the wind down to your yards, trees, fields, and roads.
This will occur today, and you will notice the wind will pick up as we warm up with time this morning and afternoon.
West winds should be strongest over the northern two-thirds of Worcester County up into southwest NH and points east, but this should also include the eastern Franklin County hilltowns, as well as the Pelham Hills.
In those areas winds should gust 35-50mph or so, whereas the rest of us gust 30-45mph.
Isolated outages are possible today, as are a valley sprinkle or hilltown flurry early. Highs will mainly be in the 40s today, but a few spots will crest 50 degrees, especially in the lower valley and northern CT.
A weak wave tracks over southeast New England bringing partly to mostly cloudy skies with a sprinkle of flurry possible and lows in the upper 20s to low 30s with west winds gusting over 20mph at times.
For Thursday, high pressure slides into the region, and brings mostly sunny skies with it and highs in the 40s to near 50 degrees with lows near the freezing mark.
On Friday, we will be watching our coastal system slide south and mostly away from the region, which is too bad for snow-lovers, because enough cold would have been available to be tapped for a snowstorm, but no such luck this year. I feel your pain, my friends!
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Still, the northern stream component will be sliding east through the Great Lakes and into New England with clouds increasing Friday morning and mixed rain and snow showers arriving Friday afternoon. Highs will be in the mid to upper 30s in the high terrain, and upper 30s to low 40s in the valley.
Any mixed showers will turn to a period of light snow Friday night, I believe, and a coating to an inch of snow is possible before it slides east and away from our region. Lows will drop into the low 20s.
We have a gorgeous weekend ahead! Mostly sunny skies the whole way, with a seasonably cold day Saturday with highs in the 30s, lows in the 20s, and the highs well into the 40s by Sunday as high pressure slides east and returns a southerly flow into the region, once again.
We soar into the 50s early next week with rain showers by next Tuesday or so, the way it looks now.
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