{"id":18346,"date":"2024-12-21T05:21:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T10:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodshill.net\/?p=18346"},"modified":"2024-12-21T17:40:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T22:40:13","slug":"saturday-december-21-2024-forecast-521am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodshill.net\/?p=18346","title":{"rendered":"Saturday December 21 2024 Forecast (5:21AM)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DAYS 1-5 (DECEMBER 21-25)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to winter! The solstice occurred at 4:20 a.m. and right on cue much of the region now has a fresh snow cover and this with a very cold air mass inbound. This arrives today behind the departing low pressure area. A disturbance can create a few snow showers in the region today, and some ocean-effect snow showers can visit Cape Cod both today and Sunday, but overall it&#8217;ll be a generally dry weekend with well below normal temperatures. High pressure builds in for a more tranquil but still quite cold day on Monday. A weak low pressure area makes its way through the region early to midday Tuesday with some light snowfall likely. Behind this it remains chilly and a few ocean effect snow showers may be around eastern areas on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TODAY: Variably cloudy. Chance of snow showers. Temperatures fall slowly to 22-29. Wind N increasing to 10-20 MPH, higher gusts this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Additional snow showers possible Cape Cod. Lows 11-18. Wind N 5-15 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SUNDAY: Mostly sunny except partly cloudy with possible snow showers Outer Cape Cod. Highs Highs 22-29. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 10-17. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MONDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 24-31. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MONDAY NIGHT: Clouding up. Lows 15-22. Wind variable under 10 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TUESDAY (CHRISTMAS EVE): Mostly cloudy. Chance of light snow or snow showers. Highs 27-34. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TUESDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 20-27. Wind N 5-15 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WEDNESDAY (CHRISTMAS DAY): Partly sunny. Chance of light snow showers in eastern areas. Highs 30-37. Wind NE 5-15 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DAYS 6-10 (DECEMBER 26-30)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High pressure will become the dominant force in our weather holding off unsettled weather producing systems. The temperature moderation will be held in check &#8211; maybe back to about normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DAYS 11-15 (DECEMBER 31 \u2013 JANUARY 4)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Low pressure may bring some precipitation right around mid period (the first or second day of the new year). No temperatures extremes indicated through mid period. Significant cold may arrive by late in the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAYS 1-5 (DECEMBER 21-25) Welcome to winter! The solstice occurred at 4:20 a.m. and right on cue much of the region now has a fresh snow cover and this with a very cold air mass inbound. This arrives today behind the departing low pressure area. A disturbance can create a few snow showers in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodshill.net\/?p=18346\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday December 21 2024 Forecast (5:21AM)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodshill.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodshill.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodshill.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodshill.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodshill.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodshill.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18348,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodshill.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18346\/revisions\/18348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodshill.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodshill.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodshill.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}