Good afternoon everybody, as I mentioned in this morning’s report, our storm phased with its associated upper low pressure system a bit too late and a bit too far east to get it to track north enough towards Nantucket to produce widespread major snowfall across the greater WMass region.

We did have some heavier snow bands come through over the morning, so some areas picked up additional snow, and I’d love to hear what you ended up with. The bottom line is that the widespread 6-12” is unlikely to verify but the 10-16” in southern CMass and northern CT should mostly verify, though some areas in the CT River Valley will probably have sub-10” amounts.

Power outages have climb ed over 300,000 in EMass and RI, as it is complete mess back that way with over 30” of wet snow in some places. If you have any reports from friends or family, please post them in the comments, it’s dangerous in the east! Many reports of houses shaking have come in as well. Luckily in northeast CT, Hampden County and southern CMass we had only about 3500 outages at the peak this morning.

Wind gusts have maxed out into the 50-60mph range in CMass, and in the 30-50mph range in WMass and northern CT, and while the brunt of the storm is pulling away, wind gusts will continue through the afternoon, and although less intense, even into tonight as temps drop into the upper single digits to upper teens for lows. With the wind, wind chill will be a factor, with wind chills down near 0º at times.

As for snow, we still do have a band that is fairly stationary and self-sustaining for now over southeast VT, the Berkshires, the far northwest WMass hilltowns (west county and south into Plainfield, Cummington, Worthington, Middlefield) and down into far northwest CT.

This will wind down eventually, but additional accumulations are possible with this band while it persists.

Once we get to tomorrow, sunshine should be widespread with highs reaching the upper 20s to mid 30s as wind continues to slacken. Lows will drop into the single digits to low teens as clouds increase due to an incoming Alberta Clipper system.

This should produce light accumulating snow in our region on the order of a coating to an inch or so into Wednesday morning, but I will update on that either tonight and no later than tomorrow morning’s report.

Highs on Wednesday will climb into the low to mid 30s with lows in the low 20s as a few more snow showers are possible with a frontal boundary swinging into the region.

Thursday should feature higher pressure and partly sunny skies with highs in the 30s, but another system ejecting east out of the Ohio Valley may bring more accumulating snow to the region by Thursday night into early Friday, especially south of the Pike.

By the time we get to Friday mid-day, I think we’re entering a period of milder temperatures and increasing sunshine through the weekend with highs in the mid 30s to low 40s so we’ll be melting some of this snow!

Beyond that, there is one more winter storm signal I am watching for early next week, and beyond THAT we may be finally exiting this winter season with some more vigor, but I don’t want to get ahead of myself! Stay warm, Dave.

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YOUR NUTSHELL:
–Snow continues in a stationary band over Windham County VT, the Berkshires, far western Franklin/Hampshire Counties, and far northwest Litchfield County CT
–Snow continues in the main storm band in CMass, northeast CT, flirting with WMass towns that border with Worcester County
–The SVT/Berkshire band will collapse south through the valley with one more round of light to moderate snow
–Snow will then wind down with time this afternoon, with drying in the Pioneer Valley becoming more pronounced under subsidence
–Wind continues to gust 30-45 mph at times through the afternoon, causing blowing and drifting of snow
–Wind should slacken later this evening, but still be busy out of the northwest 20-35mph after snow quits
–Lows will drop to the upper single digits to upper teens with wind chills down near 0º at times
–Tuesday looks cold but sunny, highs upper teens to upper 20s, breezy early
–Lows dive into the single digits under radiational cooling early, then clouds build at night
–By early Wednesday morning, more light to perhaps moderate snow expected with a Clipper system tracking in from the Great Lakes
–Snow should wind down by mid-day, with highs in the upper 20s to mid 30s
–A frontal boundary may swing some more snow showers through Wednesday night, with lows in the upper teens to low 20s
–Partial sunshine for Thursday with highs in the 30s, with clouds increasing late
–Another flat-tracking system may bring more snow Thursday night into Friday morning
–The weekend looks seasonably cold and partly to mostly sunny as we get a break in the action before another winter storm is possible for next Monday night into Tuesday
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YOUR DAILY CELESTIALS
STAR:
–OUR STAR ROSE AT: 6:34am this morning
–OUR STAR SETS AT: 5:33pm this evening
–TOTAL DAYLIGHT TIME: 10 hours and 59 minutes

MOON:
–OUR MOON ROSE AT: 9:21am this morning
–MOON RISE DIRECTION: East-Northeast
–OUR MOON SETS AT: 1:11am tomorrow morning
–MOON SET DIRECTION: Northwest
–MOON PHASE: Waxing Crescent (41.3%)