Good morning folks, Winter Weather Advisories continue this morning as more precipitation is moving through the region, with a heavier cluster pushing into the Berkshires at 7am, with more to the west over south-central NY into the Catskills and Hudson Valley. These clusters of showers will have to work east through the greater WMass region into the mid-day period, causing more icing as rain falls onto freezing to sub-freezing surfaces.

I’ve also received reports of over 3” of snow in parts of southern VT, which indicates cold air has held in longer there, and more snow can be expected later this morning for the mountains of western Windham County and eastern Bennington /county where up to 2-5” may result, with icing in the valleys near Bennington and Brattleboro.

For most of the rest of us in the greater WMass region, this is an icing event with some sleet mixing in at times, but has featured and will be mostly feature freezing rain as the main precip type, and aren’t we just so lucky because of it?! #NOT

Given some subtle lower pressures south of the main low that will track east through northern New England, we’ll likely see somewhat colder air be drawn to the south,which will allow for icing to continue this morning for most of us, with pockets of plain rain possible further south in WMass and more so in north-central or northeast CT up into southernmost CMass.

Still, the main news item is freezing rain for most of this morning, so if you aren’t on well-treated roads, you’re going to need to be careful with walking and driving on any untreated surfaces through the morning and into early afternoon when the precip will finally start trucking east of here.

While precip quits by early to mid afternoon, and high reach the mid 30s give or take, our temps are going to sit back down tonight into the upper 20s, and with standing water around and snow melt, we’ll see black ice form in many areas, so you are going to need to remain aware and alert to slippery surfaces through Thursday morning.

By Thursday, a pattern change to milder conditions will commence as we get a sort of old-school January thaw, with high pressure passing to our south and inducing a southerly flow into New England.

This high pressure will produce sunny skies and highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s so by the peak of the day it’ll be great to get outside and allow some sunshine to wrap you in its warm (well, cool yet milder) embrace.

Temps will drop back down into the upper 20s for lows, so again, any snowmelt that occurs will refreeze at night, so watch for black ice.

By Friday, I’m going to be watching a strong storm system gets fired up over the Plains states and head northeast to the Great Lakes.

This will continue to induce a mild southwest flow into our region, and highs are expected to reach the mid to upper 40s with clouds increasing later in the day as a warm front reaches northeast toward us.

This will spread rain showers into our region Friday night, lasting into Saturday morning, but they should be scattered and not overly heavy.

After that first wave of rain moves through, we’ll enjoy another mild Saturday with highs in the mid to upper 40s as snow melt continues, but will be awaiting a more widespread and heavier rain shield that brings fairly substantial rains Saturday night into the first half of Sunday, so prepare for a wet night and morning late Saturday into early Sunday.

While Sunday will feature similar highs, we’ll see a cold front move through the region behind that strong storm as it sweeps east-northeast into southeast Canada, which will pull colder air back into the region Sunday night into Monday along with blustery westerly winds that may gust 25-40mph.

Early next week looks colder and fair, but with seasonable early Winter temperatures in the 30s, and a chance at another mild shot of air into the latter-week period with fair weather through Wednesday.

I hope you have a great day!

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