SNOW CHANCES INCREASING FOR FRIDAY (4:45PM MON)
Good afternoon folks, I’ll post an updated report tonight, but just wanted to let you know that at the moment, odds of accumulating snow are increasing for the WMass/SVT region.
A widespread 80-90% chance for at least an inch of snow is being output by some guidance (attached), and there are other models that pointing to the potential for an impactful snowstorm across parts of our region late Thursday night into the first half of Friday – a day in which some folks may not even see the 40º mark.
Be sure to stay tuned for upcoming reports and information regarding this potentially impactful winter weather event to end the month of October for the WMass region (which includes all counties in CT, NY, VT, NH and MA that are adjacent to Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden Counties, which comprise “WMass”).
While I don’t think it’s possible that this setup will produce another Halloween Nor’easter of the type that barreled through 9 years ago to almost the day, it’s not unreasonable to think the plows may have to come out for some high-elevation road ways in the hilltowns, Berkshires and other mountainous areas.
Stay tuned, peeps…
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[SHOWERS, DRIZZLE, AND RAW, OH MY! THE RAWNESS HAS BEEN FOISTED UPON THE DENIZENS OF WMASS, AND SOUP POTS ACROSS THE LAND INDEED RATTLED… THAT’S THE MONDAY-CAST… A FEW MORE SHOWERS/DRIZZLE TONIGHT, THEN DRIER BUT MOSTLY CLOUDY FOR TUESDAY… A FEW SHOWERS TOMORROW NIGHT THEN SOME PARTIAL SUNSHINE BY WEDNESDAY (OUR PICK OF THE WEEK)… BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT, A RAINSTORM ARRIVES, WITH A SECOND PULSE POSSIBLY TRANSITIONING TO WET SNOWFALL ACROSS THE WESTERN HILLTOWNS, BERKSHIRES, SVT, AND POSSIBLY EVEN IN THE VALLEY WITH A COATING TO 2″ POSSIBLE BY FRIDAY MORNING… COOL THROUGHOUT… NICE WEEKEND AHEAD…2021 WEATHER WALL CALENDAR SALE IS LIVE… 7:30AM MON]Good morning everybody, we had a nice batch of rain showers that moved through overnight, and they are still winding their way through the region early this morning, especially east of the I-91 corridor at the 7am hour.
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For today, highs won’t make it much past the upper 40s to low 50s, and after showers end this morning, we will likely see areas of drizzle/mist and even some patchy fog at times. It’ll be a raw, overcast, wet day with east winds gusting to 20mph at times. Not very pleasant at all.
For tonight, a few more showers are possible with a cold frontal passage. Lows will drop into the low to mid 40s, and some drizzle and/or patchy fog is expected as well.
After the front moves through by Tuesday, we should see a light north wind holding high temps again into the upper 40s to low 50s from high terrain to low, under mostly mostly cloudy skies, with a spot shower possible at night.
Lows Tuesday night will drop into the mid 30s with some breaks in the cloud deck late at night.
This will lead to our pick of the week Wednesday, which should feature a one-day intrusion of high pressure, producing partly sunny skies and highs in the low to mid 50s – balmy! Lows will drop to near 40º.
The Thursday/Friday timeframe holds the potential for a solid rainstorm which could flip to wet snow in northwest/northern MA up into southern VT and southwest NH for Friday morning.
Thursday morning actually looks pretty decent, with partly sunny skies, and highs rising into the low 50s, but clouds will quickly fill in from west to east, as the remnants of Zeta tracks northeast tot the Mid-Atlantic coastline, spreading its northern rain shield up against colder high pressure to the north.
This squeeze play will ring out rain over southern New England starting Thursday mid afternoon or so, and lasting throughout Thursday night, with lows in the low to mid 30s.
Around or after midnight, rain will start changing to snow across the highest elevations WMass and SVT, and the change line will descend in elevation toward the surface as a secondary pulse of low pressure tracks to our south and pulls in colder air positioned to our north and northwest, thanks to cold Canadian high pressure.
By Friday morning, many of us could be snowing, even in valley locations, although any light accumulations of a coating to 2″ should be confined mostly to grassy surfaces in northwest MA (Berkshires, western hilltowns, eastern Franklin County, northern Worcester County) up into SVT and SWNH.
#AndSnowItBegins
Snow/rain ships out by noon on Friday, which is COLD with highs only in the upper 30s to low 40s from high terrain to low. with lows in the mid to upper 20s!
The weekend looks mostly sunny and cool with northwest flow behind the departing storm system, with highs 45-50º on Saturday and 50-55º on Sunday as 2020 careens into November.
May The Force Be With You Always.
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