Yup... It's Still Winter

Posted by Chris Lambert

Snow flakes fall from the sky today, but they won't collectively amount to a lot  A coating to an inch or two for many spots west of Boston from mid morning on.  That's on top of the 1-2" of snow that fell overnight in parts of Worcester County.   As temps hover in the upper 30s this afternoon, we should have just mainly wet roads as a few raindrops mix in the the snow showers.

Winds turn north tonight and that'll send temps well below freezing.  Roads become slick as light snow has a much easier time sticking.  The trickiest travel will be after midnight as snow increases once again as an ocean storm develops along a front to the east of us.  This ocean storm will be a powerful one by tomorrow, but the track of it is just far enough offshore to allow us a glancing blow and not an all out nor'easter.  With that said, we'll still have to deal with snow and wind.  

The forecasted snow totals are tricky at this point, but the more likely set-up provides Boston with another 3-4" of fluffy snow, 1-3" west of Route 128 and 4-6" across SE Mass, with up to 6-8" across the Cape and Islands.  If the track is a bit closer to the coast, these numbers slide up, if it's farther out to sea, these numbers slide down.  You now how it goes around here, the track is everything.   We'll also deal with a biting north wind tomorrow, gusts past 30mph and highs only in the 20s.

After this storm, the next several days look relatively quiet with temps in the 30s and 40s and just some rain/snow showers late Tuesday/Tuesday night.

Enjoy the weekend and upcoming school vacation!     

Come On Ride The Train

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Heavy rain is on the move! All afternoon long it was stalled over Western Massachusetts and Connecticut. Heavy pulses of rain traveled over the same towns and cities - a process meteorologists call "training" - resulting in flash flooding in some counties to our west.

Unsettling

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

Another day where we have cool, ocean air battling warmer land air leading to a clash of air. That means clouds, drizzle, fog, humidity (frizzy hair) for much of the day. It's not a washout though. The highest chance of rain is this morning--until 9:30am and then later this afternoon (after 3pm). In between, you will see a lot of clouds but also some sunshine at times. Even limited sun will be able to shove temps well into the 70s. This warm & humid air is what will lead to another round of showers & t-storms later today. Some of the storms will be intense. Like the past two days the strongest storms will be in western New England. Only isolated showers/ thunderstorms are expected along the coastline later today. Sox game will have the risk of some showers but they should be able to play that game. Welcome back Tito!

Saved by The Sea Breeze

Posted by Pete Bouchard

Although my forecast was busted today, there was one good thing that came out of it.

Stability.

That gray overcast that hung over the eastern half of the Commonwealth provided a stablizing influence to our atmosphere. The cool air blowing in from the ocean kept the temperatures in the upper 50s and low 60s all the way back to Metrowest. While that makes for lousy short-and-t-shirt weather, it is poison to thunderstorms.

Wild & Wacky

Posted by Jeremy Reiner

Wild temperatures yesterday---from the 80s down into the low 60s in just an hour AND some heavy duty thunderstorms. The reason was a cool front that dropped in from Maine. That front is in western New England this morning and it's a chameleon as it will become a warm front and try to warm things back up during the day.