DREARY STAGNANT PATTERN ENDS TODAY… WE MOVE INTO A NEW SEESAW PATTERN OF ALTERNATING WINTER COLD AND MILDER PERIODS STARTING WITH TONIGHT’S COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE AND ARCTIC BLAST…SUNNY BREAKS POSSIBLE TODAY, MONDAY LOOKING MORE PARTLY SUNNY, WITH INCREASING SUN FOR TUESDAY… WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR SVT INTO THIS EVENING… 8:55am Sunday…

Good morning everybody, our pattern is finally changing! The visibilities are generally improving this morning (meaning, they are extending to longer distances as fog dissipates), and so Dense Fog Advisories were cancelled a while ago.

It’s quite mild still in the 40s for many of us, but mid to upper 30s have already creeped into SVT where a Winter Weather Advisory is up for light mixes of freezing rain/drizzle and sleet along with a few light showers in valley areas near Bennington.

Our high temps today are basically being experienced this morning as a cold front works through the region today, and drops temps tonight.

This cold front will set off some more scattered afternoon showers of rain, sleet and snow (the sleet and snow being relegated mainly to northwest MA and SVT/SWNH), and some snow/sleet coatings are possible in those aforementioned areas.

The rest of us should miss out on any frozen precip but northwest winds will pick up later this afternoon and gust as high as 25mph as temps start falling into this evening. Any precip winds down by midnight.

We’ll have a blustery night overnight, so temps won’t crash as far as they could, but we’ll still see lows in the mid teens to low 20s. With the wind gusts, wind chills will be as low as the upper single digits, so bundle up if you’re out late or up early tomorrow morning!

For Monday, we’ll have to watch for cloudier conditions in CMass, eastern Hampden County and northeast CT as a storm off the Carolina coast lifts north enough to bring some light accumulating snow to southern CT, RI, and southeast MA, and might even produce some snow showers in northeast CT.

Highs will reach the mid to upper 20s with north winds gusting to 20mph under partly sunny skies, and lows will dip into the upper singles to mid teens under clear skies – very cold!

Tuesday is a high pressure day, with light winds, mostly sunny skies, and temperate highs in the low to mid 30s with lows in the low to mid 20s.

Clouds increase on Wednesday with a warm front working through the region, which will bring some scattered rain showers and highs cresting into the low to mid 40s for a day. Lows will sit down into the upper 20s to low 30s.

On Thursday, we’ll cool down with a cold front coming through producing highs in the 30s as we then watch for our potential coastal snowstorm on late Thursday night into Friday.

The cold air will be there.

It will all come down to the track, so I will continue to monitor, because if it tracks right, we’ll be blanketed with snow region-wide.

Have a great day!