1 To 3 Inches Of Snow Is Expected From Late Tuesday Afternoon Through Tuesday Evening Across Western & Central Mass

For The Rest Of This Afternoon & Tonight: Lots of sunshine can be expected throughout the rest of this afternoon. Temperatures will be around 25 Degrees. Winds will be Northwest at 15 to 20 mph.

Skies will start out clear this evening, however, varying amounts of cloud cover can then be expected during the after midnight hours. Low temperatures will be between 10 and 15 Degrees. Winds will be West to Northwest at 7 to 14 mph.

1 To 3 Inches Of Snow Is Expected From Late Tuesday Afternoon Through Tuesday Evening: An area of low pressure is expected to track across central and northern New England during Tuesday night. While a majority of the snow with this system will fall across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, it does appears that some snow will occur across Western and Central Mass during late Tuesday afternoon and Tuesday evening.

Light snow looks to overspread the entire area during late Tuesday afternoon. The snow is then expected to continue through Tuesday evening before it comes to an end around midnight on Tuesday night.

Snow accumulations of 1 to 3 inches or so can be expected across the entire area. These amounts look to be closer to 1 to 2 inches for areas near and south of the Mass Pike & closer to 2 to 3 inches of snow accumulation for areas well north of the Mass Pike, especially in the northern Worcester Hills.

High temperatures Tuesday will be around 30 Degrees. Low temperatures Tuesday night will be near 25 Degrees.

Winds on Tuesday will be West to Northwest at 5 to 10 mph in the morning and Southwest at 6 to 12 mph in the afternoon. Winds on Tuesday night will be Southwest at 10 to 15 mph before midnight and West at 10 to 20 mph after midnight.

Wednesday Through Friday: Varying amounts of cloud cover can be expected throughout the day on Wednesday. High temperatures will be around 35 Degrees. Winds will be West at 15 to 20 mph.

Thursday is expected to be partly sunny with high temperatures between 30 and 35 Degrees.

Friday looks sunny to partly sunny with high temperatures near 30 Degrees.

Some Sort Of A Storm Is Possible During Presidents Day Weekend: The weather during the upcoming Presidents’ Day weekend is going to hinge on what happens with a low pressure system that is expected to track northeastward from the southern and southeastern United States. Right now, there is a high amount of uncertainty as to where this storm will track in relation to our area. This means that the forecast for the weekend has a high degree of uncertainty & could be everything from dry weather with no precipitation at all to a messy mixture of snow, ice and rain to perhaps another snowstorm for the entire area. Any storm that may impact us would occur beginning Sunday afternoon and lasting through Sunday night and Presidents Day.

Looking at the latest weather forecast guidance, as typical for a 5 to 6 day forecast, they show some very different scenarios.

For instance, some of the weather forecast guidance such as the GFS model and the Canadian model show a storm track that takes this low pressure system well south of the area leading to no impacts at all on our area.

Some of the other weather forecast guidance have shown a more inland storm track which would lead to a messy mix of snow, ice and rain from Sunday afternoon through next Monday.

And yet other weather forecast guidance such as the European model are forecasting a low pressure system that tracks along the south coast of New England to near Nantucket. This type of track would lead to a classic heavy snowstorm from Sunday afternoon through next Monday.

Given how uncertain the forecast is for late this coming weekend, there isn’t much more to say except that I urge you to be at least aware that a storm system may affect the weather from Sunday afternoon through Sunday night and next Monday with either all snow or a messy mixture of snow, ice and rain. That said, there is also a very real chance that this storm may just miss us leading us with no precipitation at all.

No matter what happens with this possible storm for Presidents’ Day weekend, I will be keeping close tabs on it.