Good morning folks, we have some very dynamic winter weather changes on the way starting this afternoon and tonight and lasting through to Monday morning with snow, wind, and Arctic cold set to sweep the greater WMass region so let’s dive in.

For today, we have a mostly calm day with any early partial sunshine giving way to increasingly cloudy conditions as an onshore flow sets up and develops flurries and scattered snow showers across eastern MA at first.

These will continue to slowly develop and by mid to late morning should be entering Worcester County MA and Windham County CT as that flow slowly strengthens.

Highs will make it into the mid to upper 20s, and scattered snow showers will continue to push west and into north-central CT, areas of WMass east of the Berkshires and possibly SWNH.

At the same time, our Clipper system will be diving southeast toward our region with its own snow shield, and so these two areas of developing snow will converge over the greater WMass region generally between 8pm and midnight when snow should become steadier region-wide.

It will snow light to moderately overnight, and there may be some heavier bursts of snow in parts of CMass and northeast CT as well as the Berkshires, western hilltowns, northwest CT and SVT leading into and through Saturday morning with lows in the mid teens.

I think most of us see 1-3” by Saturday noon, but I do think there will be areas like the CMass/Northeast CT zone, and the Berkshire-adjacent high terrain zone that could see 3-6” where heavier snow bands set up.

This is the type of setup that can overperform beyond expectations, folks, I’m just letting you know that. We’ll have three different types of atmospheric boundaries colliding in ways and in parts of our region that very hard to predict. In other words, a few localized areas could even see over 6”, and while I think it’s a very low chance, I would not be surprised if we end up with a more widespread 2-6” type snowfall by Saturday afternoon.

As the Arctic front comes through Saturday toward mid day, our snow could end with a heavier burst or even a gusty snow squall or two, as northwest winds pick up behind the front and empty a big chunk of very cold Arctic air into our region.

Gusts will reach speeds of 25-45mph at times Saturday night into Sunday morning, and low temps will drop to -5 to -15, with wind chills of -20 to -35, so be sure to gear up for one of the coldest nights and mornings of our Winter by Sunday morning.

Sunday looks breezy and very cold with highs in the single digits, wind chills below zero, and then low temps below zero once again by Sunday night.

Monday and Tuesday should feature fair and sunny weather with recovering high temps into the 20s to low 30s by Tuesday and Wednesday, but another bout of snow may be just around the corner for Wednesday into Thursday.

I will keep you updated on all of it! Have a great day!

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