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.

Two Rounds Of Snow Are Expected This Weekend Across Western & Central Mass – One From Late Tonight Into Saturday & The Second Round Late Sunday Afternoon & Sunday Evening

Some Snow Is Expected From Very Late Tonight Into Saturday: A couple of low pressure systems are expected to push across New England during tonight and Saturday. These storm systems will bring snow to the entire area during late tonight and during the day on Saturday.

Snow is expected to develop across the entire area during the predawn hours of Saturday morning. The snow is then expected to continue until mid-morning on Saturday across Central Mass. A break in the snow is expected across Central Mass from mid-morning until early afternoon. Meanwhile, snow looks to continue throughout all of Saturday morning across Western Mass as well as across the far northern Worcester Hills.

During Saturday afternoon, snow is expected to begin again across Central Mass during the early afternoon hours and then continue through the late afternoon hours. Across Western Mass, snow is expected throughout all of Saturday afternoon & it may be moderate in intensity at times.

The snow is expected to come to an end across the entire area by early Saturday evening.

My forecast snowfall total map for late tonight & Saturday is attached to this post. As you can see, the highest snow totals look to be across the northern Worcester Hills as well as across Western Mass where it’ll likely snow all day on Saturday.

Low temperatures tonight will be between 15 and 20 Degrees. High temperatures Saturday will be in the mid to upper 30s.

Winds tonight will be Southwest at around 10 mph. Winds on Saturday will be Southwest at 10 to 20 mph.

Maybe Some More Snow Late Sunday Afternoon & Sunday Evening, Especially Across Parts Of Central Mass: The forecast for late this weekend continues to be a very tough one as there is a considerable amount of uncertainty as to how far west the accumulating snow with an offshore low pressure system will get into our area.

Some of the weather forecast guidance such as the European model shows a far enough offshore track so that any snow will be limited to far southern and southeastern parts of Worcester County.

Other weather forecast guidance such as the Canadian model is showing a closer approach of that low pressure system. Because of this, it leads to snow to occur across the entire area during Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening. In this scenario, snow amounts of 2 to 4 inches would occur across the entire area. It should be noted that the Canadian model has been extremely consistent in this type of a forecast while other models such as the GFS and European models have been all over the place in their forecasts of the late weekend storm.

Here Are My Thoughts: I still think that there are higher odds for a nothing burger with the late weekend storm rather than something that gives widespread accumulating snow across the entire area.

That being said, it’s quite possible that this storm system could come close enough to give some snow to the area from later Sunday afternoon through Sunday evening. Should this occur, it could lead to snow accumulations to range from a dusting across Western Mass to something like 1 to 3 inches or so across Central Mass.

Even though the late weekend system looks to be a minor one in terms of snowfall, I’m still going to be keeping a very close eye on it in case it trends towards something bigger.