WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES ARE NOW POSTED FOR ALL OF SVT, ALL OF WMASS, NW.CT, AND NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY… FREEZING DRIZZLE POSSIBLE TOMORROW AM IN NORTHERN CT, WMASS AND CMASS… ANY ICE TRANSITIONS TO STEADY LIGHT SNOW SUNDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY MONDAY MORNING… (5:50pm Sat)

Good evening everybody, we certainly enjoyed a lovely, mild day today with temps well into the 40s, and even a few low 50s in spots. It was really nice!

Clouds will continue to thicken overnight as low pressure begins to approach from our southwest. Expect lows to drop into the 20s as the air in the lower mile down to near the surface dries out. Some lower level moisture may produce a bit of frost overnight where temps cool the most.

For Sunday morning, high pressure will be positioned near Maine, and will help foster colder surface temps in the high elevations above 1000 feet, which includes the usual topographic and orographic suspects (Berkshires, Litchfields, southern Greens, Taconics) as well as eastern Franklin County, northern Cheshire County in SW.NH, and the northern Worcester County highlands.

With drier air at the lower-mid levels, and increasing low level moisture, some freezing drizzle or light freezing rain is possible in SVT, SWNH, WMass, CMass, and even in northern CT.

As the morning passes into the the afternoon, some of us in the lower elevation valley areas will warm above freezing which should produce plain rain showers, with freezing rain and even sleet continuing in the high terrain. Highs will reach the mid 30s tomorrow, but stay near freezing in the high terrain.

As the afternoon wears on and passes into the night, the low pressure to our south will be strengthening and pulling east of our longitude as it develops over the warmer ocean waters. This will cool down the mid levels of the atmosphere and should change any rain or ice north of the Pike over to a steady light snow at all elevations. A snow/ice/rain mix will be more likely both south of the Pike and east of the CT River.

Precipitation will last into early Monday morning before it quits around sunrise.

A total of a coating to as much as 3″ is expected, with coatings in the lower elevations, and 1-3″ in the high terrain.

Travel with care tomorrow, and especially tomorrow night into early Monday morning if you are driving in the hills and mountains.

Have a great night, and I will keep you updated starting tomorrow morning. May your dreams be nice to you…

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A MILD, IMPROVING SATURDAY FOR YOUR OUTDOOR GOTTA-GET-STUFF-DONE ACTIVITIES… FREEZING RAIN, SLEET AND SNOW CAUSES SOME TRAVEL ISSUES BY TOMORROW EVENING AND OVERNIGHT INTO EARLY MORNING MORNING, LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE… (6:55am Sat)

Good morning everybody, our potentially rainy scenario for last night into this morning thankfully was suppressed south of the region, save for some of the southernmost parts of the four northern CT counties. Even there, it wasn’t a washout.

Thanks to incoming high pressure, this trend continues as our mild morning undergoes a transition into a milder afternoon, along with a clearing line that should foster the production of clearing skies from north to south as the day wears on.

So, while skies will be mostly cloudy during the first half of the day, we should see some partly sunny skies before sunset, especially the further north you towards VT and NH. Expect highs well into the 40s.

For tonight, high pressure helps to drain colder air into the region. Lows will drop into the low to mid 20s.

For Sunday, while showers of rain or sleet are possible in the morning, it is the afternoon, evening and overnight hours that hold the potential for the most problematic wintry precip.

To start, we’ll have a decent cold air damming setup in place with high pressure to our north that will help to drain and keep freezing to sub-freezing air draining down at the surface as the day develops.

At first, this will promote sleet and/or freezing rain to fall during the afternoon and early evening.

Secondly, colder air aloft will be advecting east into the region as we get into Sunday night, and this in conjunction with a developing and strengthening storm system south of Cape Cod will help to flip us over to all snow, especially north of the Rt. 9 corridor, the way it looks now.

This snow would then last into early Monday morning and could cause a coating to as much as 3″ to fall by that time. This in combination with any ice that may accrete to surfaces may cause Winter Weather Advisories to be hoisted in some spots. At the very least, it will cause some slick travel.

Highs on Sunday will be in the 30s with lows in the 20s.

For Monday, after early morning snow or ice, we should transition into a mostly cloudy day by the afternoon, and see highs rise to near 40 degrees.

Colder air moves in Monday night through Wednesday, with brisk northwest gusts to 25mph Monday night into Tuesday, and highs on Tuesday only in the 20s.

Have a great day today, and I will update you this evening regarding tomorrow’s anticipated winter weather event, so stay tuned!

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