Good morning everybody, we’re starting off with some patchy fog in Pittsfield and Westfield, and a few other places, I’m sure.
This fog will burn off with time this morning and reveal a mostly sunny day with highs in the 75-80º range, with lower humidity through the day as a dry cold front slides on through the region.
For tonight, high pressure builds in, keeps us clear and dry which will maximize radiational cooling and drop lows into the upper 40s to low 50s overnight.
For Saturday, a light west wind develops with high pressure nudging through the region, which will produce mostly sunny skies and highs in the low to mid 70s, and lows again in the upper 40s to 50º.
For Sunday, highs again will be in the low to mid 70s under mostly sunny skies, and as high pressure starts slipping off of the east coast, humidity will slowly build in the region early to mid week. Lows will be in the mid to upper 50s.
For Monday, we start warming a touch, too, with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s with lows near 60º.
Highs Tuesday and Wednesday will reach into the upper 70s to low 80s with humid conditions by mid week.
At that time we’ll be watching a cold front and a disturbance interacting that should bring a period of showers and thunderstorms to our region.
This will also sweep the humidity and warmth away once again, as we cool back down for the following weekend.
Hopefully it’s a big bunch of nothing, but this super calm, temperate, dry pattern places in the back of my mind a concern about possible tropical weather up in New England, sometime during the second half of September.
It’s not just my woo woo feelings about it: there is support from model guidance that is showing a mid level steering pattern by that time with high pressure in the western Atlantic and a trough in the Midwest that could guide a storm up the east coast.
There is also guidance showing multiple tropical systems and waves coming off of west Africa leading up to and during that time as well.
All this to say, it’s something I will be monitoring through the month of September and into October.
If you talk to meteorologists, most will say that we’re either due or overdue for a hurricane up this way. I hope it doesn’t come to pass, but if it does, I’ll be watching and will keep you up to date and in the know.
Have a great day, and enjoy this supremely gorgeous weather over the next number of days!