Good morning folks, we’ve entered a wintry pattern that will feature some reinforcing cold shots set within a more-or-less zonal track (i.e. more west to east then south to north). This generally means that we can expect moisture-starved, land-based, weaker storm systems zipping through every couple-three days.

These systems are expected to be mostly light snow producers, except when a storm tracks north of us, in which case we’d get some valley rain or mix in here as well. This is the pattern I see until we reach the last week in December when it might change up, but there are no big storms in sight for now.

For this morning, very light snow brought coatings to the area, and this activity continues in central and eastern CT, as well as central MA, all tracking northeast and toward the coastline, with a few flurries left over in western areas of CT and MA.

We’ll be drying out as the day goes along into the night with highs under mostly cloudy to partly sunny skies reaching the low to mid 30s, with lows in the upper teens to low 20s under mostly cloudy skies, especially earlier.

For Sunday, a partly sunny day with highs in the low to mid 30s will end our weekend, though clouds will be building later in the day as another Arctic front sweeps through overnight.

The storm responsible for delivering the front will track north of us, and drag some snow showers through the region, most numerous along and north of the Rt. 2 corridor. A coating to an inch of so looks probable in WMass, CMass and SVT/SWNH with little in northern CT. Lows will be near 20º, and northwest winds will gust 20-35mph at times during the pre-dawn hours and into Monday morning as colder air works into the region.

Monday looks sunny but quite cold and breezy with highs only in the upper teens to mid 20s, and as winds slacken later in the day, radiational cooling will set up at night helping to drop temps down to either side of 0 degrees!

Tuesday will start off frigid and wind up in the mid to upper 20s for highs, which is still well below seasonable for this time of year.

By Tuesday night and again Wednesday night into Thursday a couple of Clipper-type systems may bring more light snow accumulations, with a chance for a change to rain on Thursday in the valley points south and east.

We’ll see milder highs in the 35-40º range Wednesday and Thursday with lows in the 20s, and then colder air will work back into the region by Friday.

As I had mentioned, we’re in this zonal pattern so additional light wintry events are possible by late week and/or over the weekend into the following week and we’ll take them one by one as they develop.

Have a great day!

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