Good morning folks, thanks for all of your reports yesterday regarding our overall light snowfall event, even though it got burst-y there for a while with periods of moderate to heavy snow. All in all, it didn’t amount to more than a light accumulation, but it sure prettied up the place, as I like to say! Going forward, we’ve got more winter weather to deal with tonight, which includes icing.

For this morning, watch out for early slick spots with snow on top of black ice, though no active snow will be falling. Instead, we’ll be dealing with a light north wind and highs climbing into the low to mid 30s as clouds increase during the day.

Between 6pm-9pm tonight, mixed showers of snow, sleet and freezing rain will develop across the greater WMass region, with snow mostly being relegated to along and north of the Rt. 2 corridor in MA, VT and NH, probably mixed with sleet, though anyone could see an early snow shower before the warm nose of air works in aloft tonight.

South of Rt. 2 in WMass, CMass and northern CT should become mostly sleet and especially freezing rain as the night wears on, producing ice glazes and accretions of up to a tenth to two tenths of an inch by Wednesday mid morning.

The bottom line is that we’ve got kitchen sink precip on the way tonight, and areas along and south of the Pike will probably change to plain rain by early Wednesday morning as milder air pushes temps into he mid 30s in northern CT and far southern MA, but exact precip types and times will not be possible to ascertain.

The whole event winds down by mid to late morning Wednesday as our storm drags a warm front through the reigon as it travels towards the Gulf of Maine, passing just north of us.

This will help drive high temps into the upper 30s to low 40s by early Wednesday afternoon as we dry out, with lows in the upper 20s.

Thursday will definitely be the pick of the week with mostly sunny skies expected as high pressure works into the region with highs in the low 40s, and lows near freezing.

Friday may start dry early, but we should quickly see showers develop ahead of a frontal boundary with highs well into the 40s, so there will be no wintry precip to deal with, and snow will start melting later this week. Showers continue into Friday night but we should get a break in the action into Saturday morning.

Then by later Saturday and into Sunday, a potent storm system will be cranking up into the Great Lakes region and sending a plume of moisture our way, with more rainfall expected, especially Saturday night into Sunday morning. Highs will reach the 40s on Saturday, and maybe again early on Sunday before falling back into the 30s behind a cold frontal passage.

Southwest winds may gust 25-40mph ahead of the front, and then flip to the northwest Sunday night as we become blustery and colder with lows in the teens and highs only near freezing by Monday which also looks breezy and fair.

I hope you have a great day!

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