1 am Saturday Night Update On Sunday & Sunday Evenings Snow Across Western & Central Mass

More and more it’s looking like widespread snow amounts of 3 to 5 inches will occur across all of Western and Central Mass during Sunday and Sunday evening. Most of this snow looks to accumulate between 5 pm and 11 pm Sunday evening.

Snow will overspread the entire area just after sunrise Sunday morning. The snow looks to last until about early afternoon when it’ll stop for a while during the early and mid afternoon hours.

A second round of snow will develop across all of Western and Central Mass by late Sunday afternoon. Snow, which will be moderate to heavy in intensity at times, is expected throughout all of Sunday evening. Light snow will then persist through the after midnight hours of Sunday night before it ends just before sunrise Monday morning.

Snow totals of 3 to 5 inches is expected across all of Western and Central Mass. As I already mentioned, a majority of this snow looks to accumulate between about 5 pm and 11 pm Sunday evening.

Even More Snow Is Expected Across Western & Central Mass During Sunday & Sunday Evening

Snow Is Expected During Sunday & Sunday Evening: The forecast for Sunday and Sunday evening continues to be a real challenge as there continues to be some uncertainty as to how close a low pressure system will get to our area. That said, that amount of uncertainty in Sunday’s forecast is much less than what it was at this time yesterday.

An area of low pressure is expected to move off of the North Carolina and Virginia coasts during Sunday morning and then head northeastward passing to the east of Nantucket by Sunday evening. Even though this storm system will be a bit too far offshore to give us a major winter storm, it’ll still be close enough to bring accumulating snow during Sunday and Sunday evening across all of Western and Central Mass. The highest snow totals look to be across southern and especially southeastern Worcester County where up to 3 to 5 inches of snow looks likely.

I do think that there will be two parts to Sunday’s storm:

The first part of this storm looks to occur during Sunday morning into early Sunday afternoon. Snow will begin across the entire area around sunrise Sunday morning and then continue throughout Sunday morning before it temporarily comes to an end during early Sunday afternoon. While some light accumulations will occur with the first part of this system, I think that most of the snow accumulations with this storm will occur from late Sunday afternoon through Sunday evening.

The second part of this storm looks to occur from late Sunday afternoon through Sunday evening. The snow may actually stop for a while during the early afternoon before it begins again during the late afternoon and early evening hours. It also looks likely that there will be a period of moderate snow during Sunday evening with snowfall rates of up to one inch per hour across Central Mass.

The snow is expected to come to an end by midnight Sunday night across Western Mass and between about midnight and 3 am Sunday night across Central Mass.

My forecast snowfall map for Sunday and Sunday evening is attached to this post. I do think that most of the snow accumulations will occur between about 5 pm and 11 pm Sunday.

Update On This Afternoon's Additional Snowfall Across Western & Central Mass (Issued: Midday Saturday 1/17/2026)

I will have a full update (including a forecast snowfall map) on the expected second storm that'll bring even more snow to the entire area during Sunday and Sunday evening by about 3-4 pm or so this afternoon.

Until then, I wanted to give you a quick update on the ongoing snow that's occurring, especially from Western Mass through the western and northern Worcester Hills.

For Western Mass: Snow is expected to continue throughout this afternoon before it comes to an end early this evening. Additional snow amounts will range from 1 to 2 inches in the lower Pioneer Valley, including the Springfield Metro to 2 to 3 more inches across the middle and upper Pioneer Valley and across the Berkshires.

For The Western & Northern Worcester Hills: Snow is expected throughout this afternoon. The snow is expected to come to an end during early this evening. Additional snow amounts will range from 1 to 2 inches across the I-84 corridor to around 2 inches across areas of the western Worcester Hills north of Route 9. 2 to 3 more inches of snow is expected across the northern Worcester Hills.

For Central & Southern Worcester County, Including The Worcester Metro, I-395 & Route 146: Snow has just begun again in the Worcester Metro & it is expected to continue throughout this afternoon. For areas closer to I-395 and Route 146, precipitation in the form of rain or a rain-snow mix will develop within the next hour or so. The rain-snow mix will change to all snow by about sunset.

The snow is expected to end across all of central and southern Worcester County by early this evening.

Additional snow amounts will range from a slushy dusting across far southern and southeastern parts of Worcester County, including I-395 and Route 146 to around one inch of additional snowfall across central parts of Worcester County, including the Worcester Metro.