WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES HAVE BEEN HOISTED FOR WORCESTER COUNTY AND NW MIDDLESEX COUNTY FOR ACCUMULATING WET SNOW TOMORROW MORNING… WIND ADVISORIES HAVE BEEN HOISTED FOR ALL OF WMASS, CMASS, THE TACONICS, SVT AND SWNH FOR TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND NIGHT… A WINTRY REMINDER OF OUR PASSING SEASON… (5:05pm Tues)

Good evening everybody, we’ve got a dynamic period of early April weather on our geographic doorstep, and some very isolated power outages are possible due to heavy wet snow in CMass, the eastern tip of Hampden County and northeast CT tomorrow morning, with high terrain isolated outages region-wide due to strong winds tomorrow afternoon and night into early Thursday morning.

Think of details and double-dashes as fluffy pillows of toasty-colored leaves, with a light wafting of earthy olfactory hues, finished off with just the right amount of crunch for auditory satiation.

In other words, let’s jump into the details (ba-doom crash!, I’ll be here all hour, I mean week):

SUMMARY
–High clouds continue to build tonight
–Lows will drop into the low to mid 30s, with some upper 20s in the high terrain possible, as well as in SVT
–Our coastal low will strengthen rapidly, and because of this, will expand its cloud and precip shield fairly far away from its center, expected to track 75-100 miles south of Nantucket island

SNOW IMPACTS
–Rain will break out across the region after midnight, but should quickly flip to snow in many spots, especially the high terrain above 1000 feet
–While anywhere east of the Berkshires could see a coating of snow tomorrow morning, the best chance for a coating to 2″ is east of I-91
–These accumulations should be mainly on grassy surfaces, but if it snows hard enough for a few hours, some road ways may become slippery in easternmost sections of WMass, and CMass down into northeast CT
–There is a chance that 2-4″ could fall in the high terrain of northeast CT, easternmost Hampden County (Monson, Wales, Holland, Brimfield), southeastern Cheshire County NH, the eastern tip of Franklin County, and Worcester County
–Again, those kinds of accumulations would be relegated to elevations above 800 or 1000 feet
–You can see in the attached graphics that the temps a mile up look to be below freezing, and surface temps near freezing
–This is a snow signal. If this combines with a bit of a northwestward nudge of storm track, we cannot rule out some folks in Worcester County seeing half a foot of wet snow with some isolated power outages given northeast wind gusts of 30mph
–It all quits between 7-9am moving west to east through the region
–Not only that, but sunshine will break out and highs will reach the low to mid 50s

WIND IMPACTS
–Then as the storm pulls away, winds will flip from northeast to west, and gust 35-50mph at times tomorrow afternoon and night
–There are some indications that even strong gusts are possible, so some hilltown areas may need High Wind Warnings posted, and could see some outages from wind damage
–This will last Wednesday night into early Thursday morning before relaxing

FIRE SPREAD POTENTIAL
–For the areas that do not get into the precipitation from tomorrow morning’s storm, very dry conditions and high winds could cause fire spread
–If you live in the Berkshires and western hilltowns especially, be careful

Ok folks, that does it for now, I will be up early tomorrow morning with a report, and if things change tonight, I will post by 10-11pm.

Have a great evening!
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LIGHT ACCUMULATING SNOW STILL EXPECTED FOR SOME IN THE HIGH TERRAIN OF WORCESTER COUNTY, EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY, EASTERNMOST HAMPDEN/HAMPSHIRE COUNTIES, THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTHWEST NH AND NORTHEAST CT BETWEEN 1AM-9AM TOMORROW MORNING… MORE RAIN FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT COULD MIX WITH SNOW OVER THE BERKSHIRES… WEEKEND LOOKS DECENT… (6:35am Tuesday)

Good morning everybody, let’s do it again, shall we?

SUMMARY
–A gorgeous day is upcoming with high pressure and subsidence (i.e. sinking/drying air) overhead
–Expect sunshine with highs in the upper 40s to low 50s and light south wind
–High clouds will build into the region later today, so we’ll see those working into the region
–Meanwhile, low pressure will track east-northeast along the Deep South, pick up some Gulf moisture, hit the Carolina coast tonight and be directed up towards The Benchmark by tomorrow morning
–The Benchmark is the 40 degrees N / 70 degrees W latitude/longitude point on the globe, that’s also located 75 miles due south of Nantucket
–This will bring snow and rain to southern New England tomorrow morning, clearing out by late morning to noon
–A coating to 2″ is possible if we can get it to precipitate hard enough, during the coldest part of the morning, between 4-8am
–The storm will be off the coast, so it’s the high terrain areas east of I-91 that I mentioned in the headline that have the best chance to see the white stuff on the ground
–Areas west of I-91 should see a mix of rain and snow in the morning
–It all gets out of here by 9 or 10am, and we get a nice sunny day with highs either side of 50 degrees afterwards! Hooray for us!
–Strong west winds gusts of 30-40mph will be pulled in through our region, racing to catch up with the departing storm
–Lows will drop into the low 30s
–Thursday will be cool and sunny with highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s as high pressure builds into the region for a day
–Friday starts off partly sunny with highs in the 40s, but yet another storm system will track into the region, bringing rain showers Friday late afternoon into the night, with some wet snow possibly mixed in over the high terrain
–The weekend looks pretty good, with a few more morning Saturday showers and more clouds than sun, with more sun for Sunday
–Highs will reach well into the 50s both days with lows in the 30s

Have a great day, and I will update you this evening about tomorrow morning’s potential accumulating late-season snow…