Turners Falls airport is a good spot. Or on the top of Mt Sugarloaf (which you can drive up), except you aren't in position to move easily. Fields between North Amherst and North Hadley too, wide open fields over there.
Called the airport-- apparently the equipment is still there and this relates to a data feed issue at all USAF maintained sites. No estimate on resumption of data but it likely will be resumed.
Seems like KCEF may have been decommissioned... No official word but it's getting the unperson treatment on all official sites... Bummer
From UMass and the surrounding area it's 40-60 mins by car to ORE, ORH, BAF, & BDL
Radar based QPE sucks out here. BTown coop is 84% of normal mtd and very near the 25% of normal contour on this map. Pretty big diff. Amherst coop is 75% of normal mtd.
I used to always buy K Tix but I dunno, $145 doesn't seem like much of a deal at this range. I like the place but jeez. Probably just go to Magic if in the area, or continue north.