[STORMIER WINTER WEATHER SIGNALS ARE BEGINNING TO SURFACE FOR LATER JANUARY AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED…WINTER STORM WATCHES HAVE BEEN HOISTED FOR S.VT WEST OF BRATTLEBORO… NW.MA AND S.VT TO SEE SOME ACCUMULATING SNOW VERY LATE TOMORROW NIGHT INTO SAT. MORNING WITH SOME HIGH TERRAIN AREAS IN SVT POSSIBLY GETTING OVER HALF A FOOT… CLIPPER TYPE SYSTEM FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY… NOW MONITORING FOR SNOWSTORM POTENTIAL NEXT FRIDAY… STAY TUNED… 6:50PM THURS]
Good evening everybody, we’re entering a more active pattern after our January doldrum during the first half of the month.
Today we had some coatings of snow and rain showers, and we can expect some fog patches tonight along with a low chance of freezing drizzle overnight due to low level moisture being trapped at the surface by a temperature inversion.
Lows will dip into the mid to upper 20s under mostly cloudy skies, so watch for a few slick spots on side roads, especially if you live at elevation.
For Friday, any morning partly sunny and/or patches will fill in with clouds as a developing storm system tracks northeast through the western half of the eastern Great Lakes and floats a warm front towards our region. Highs will reach the 35-40º range with a light east wind.
As we move into the night, wind will veer and we will develop a southeasterly and southerly flow into the region Friday night as precipitation approaches towards midnight. Lows will drop into the low to mid 30s.
It will be cold enough in the high terrain of northwest MA and southern VT to start off as wet snow into the pre-dawn hours, and accumulations are expected to range widely, from a coating to 2-3″ in the northeast Berkshires and western Franklin/Hampshire counties, up to 4-8″ in the southern Green Mountains in eastern Bennington and western Windham Counties where Winter Storm Watches have been hoisted for tomorrow night into the first half of Saturday.
The rest of us should see mostly rain, and between .75″-1.25″ of rainfall is expected through mid-day Saturday, with highs reaching the low to mid 40s for a day.
As our storm departs east on Saturday, a dry slot punches through and dries us out before or around noon. By evening, lake effect and upslope snow showers are expected with additional light accumulations possible in the Taconics, Berkshires, Litchfields and southern Greens. Lows will be in the upper 20s Saturday night.
After a few Sunday morning snow showers in those same areas, we should develop a blustery day with highs in the 30s and west winds gusting over 30mph at times. Lows will be in the mid to upper 20s as we dry out.
Monday through Thursday looks mostly fair with highs in the low to mid 30s and lows in the 20s, but we’ll have to watch a Clipper-type wave diving southeast out of Canada through New England, which could bring some snow showers.
By late next week, we have to watch a storm now out over the Pacific Ocean which may track into the eastern Great Lakes, and then develop a secondary coastal low that could undergo intense development and produce a snowstorm over the WMass region and parts of southern New England for Friday.
It’s a long way off, but something to watch. Colder air moves in behind that system.
Have a great evening!
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[SNOW AND RAIN SHOWERS AT TIMES TODAY, SOME COATINGS POSSIBLE… CLOUDY TOMORROW WITH MOSTLY RAIN LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING WITH SOME LIGHT WET SNOW ACCUMULATIONS IN NORTHWEST MA AND ESPECIALLY SOUTHERN VT BEFORE OUR STORM SHIPS OUT SATURDAY AFTERNOON… LAKE EFFECT AND UPSLOPE SNOW SHOWERS SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY IN THE BERKSHIRES, TACONICS, AND SOUTHERN GREENS, SPILLING INTO THE WESTERN HILLTOWNS EXPECTED… COLDER NEXT WEEK… 7:35AM THURS]
Good morning everybody, our blah January continues, though we may get some mood snow today in spots, along with a few rain showers in others.
Precip should be scattered and light with highs in the mid to upper 30s with a light southwest wind. A few coatings are possible, but shouldn’t see more than that, if we see any accumulation at all.
For tonight, mostly cloudy skies continue with lows in the mid 50s.
For Friday, the cloud deck thickens as a storm passes well northwest of us and swings its occluded front towards the region, along which will develop a secondary low that rides right through New England.
Highs will reach the mid to upper 30s under mostly cloudy skies, while we remain dry. Lows will drop a bit, bottoming out into the low to mid 30s with rain and snow arriving either side of midnight and continuing during the overnight hours through Saturday morning.
Most of us should see rain or possible a few wet snowflakes mixed in with the rain as milder air surges in, but the northern Berkshires, western Hampshire/Franklin Counties up into southern VT could see a period of wet snow, and a coating to 2″ is possible by Saturday morning, at which time snow should change to rain and a dry slot will be punching northeastward into the region.
Highs on Saturday will reach the low to mid 40s earlier on, and then fall to near freezing at night, when westerly winds will blow behind the departing low, and cause lake effect and upslope snow showers to develop in the Taconics, southern Greens and Berkshires.
These snow showers will continue in the said high terrain on Sunday with winds gusting to 20-30mph, whereas it should be more partly sunny in the valley with highs in the mid to upper 30s. Some light accumulations from the lake effect snow showers are possible. Lows will be in the mid to upper 20s.
Martin Luther King Day into Tuesday look fair with partly to mostly sunny skies and highs in the low to mid 30s with lows in the upper teens to low 20s before some more snow showers are possible by Wednesday.
Have a great day!