Good morning folks, at the moment with our coastal blizzard trending mostly southeast and away from the greater WMass region, there isn’t a ton to discuss. The reason for that is that after last weekend’s major snowstorm, we’ve landed into a “persistence pattern”, which is when the major atmospheric players sort of lock into a dance with each other that reinforces a flow state characterized by fairly consistent weather conditions for many days in a row (and sometimes weeks in a row) before chaos comes in reshuffles the atmospheric deck.

Of note, and as expected, we do have new Cold Weather Advisories freshly hoisted by the NWS for the entire greater WMass region tonight into Friday morning, which is related to an impending Arctic cold front that will sweep through this evening.

We’ll enjoy mostly sunny skies today, tomorrow, and Saturday as well, with highs in the teens to low 20s today and Saturday.

For tonight, after the front comes through with a few snow showers possible, northwest winds will gust 15-25mph and with lows -15º to 0º in terms of air temps, wind chills will crash into the -30º to -15º range, which can produce frostbite in 30 minutes if skin isn’t covered up, as well as hypothermia.

Friday is super cold with highs only in the single digits to low teens under sunny skies, and lows will crash to -20º to -5º under deep snow pack. Even though wind is less, wind chills may still pin down to -30º at times.

After a cold Saturday in the teens under sunny skies, we cloud up Saturday night into Sunday, or at least see high clouds in some areas west of I-91 under filtered sunshine.

To have even a moderate impact in the greater WMass region, we’d need our coastal storm to be impacted by an unforeseen miracle in terms of a strengthening of the upper ridge (a/k/a “downstream ridge”) east of the low center’s expected position well south of the Benchmark.

If that were to happen due to real-time storm developments, then it could bump the storm west towards Nantucket more, and MAYBE get it to pass over The Benchmark, but that’s unlikely as of now.

Barring that, I think the phasing of the upper low and bombing-out surface low east of the VA/NC coastline will cause the storm to stay mostly out to sea, except for a possible hit on southeast New England, where a blizzard could still manifest.

So Sunday, for now, looks mostly cloudy and cold, with maybe some light snow in northeast CT and southern CMass and dry for the rest of us, with wind picking up Sunday night into Monday and gusts to 40mph producing more below-zero wind chills, with cold and fair weather expected into much of next week.

Have a great day, and stay warm!

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