A Little Bit Of Light Snow Will Occur Late Tonight Until About Mid-Morning Monday Across Western & Central Mass

For The Rest Of This Afternoon: Lots of sunshine can be expected throughout the rest of this afternoon. Temperatures will be between 35 and 40 Degrees. Winds will be become East at 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight & Monday Morning: We are watching the progress of two low pressure systems that will affect the weather from late tonight into Monday morning.

The first low pressure system is expected to track off of the North Carolina coast late today. This low pressure system will then pass well to the south of Southern New England by Monday morning. This storm system will be way too far to our south to give us any sort of appreciable snowfall.

The second low pressure system is expected to track across central and northern New England during Monday morning.

It appears that a trough of low pressure will set up and connect these two low pressure systems leading to a little bit of light snow to affect the entire area from late tonight until about mid-morning Monday.

Some intermittent light snow looks to begin across Western and Central Mass just after midnight tonight. This intermittent light snow then looks to continue through sunrise Monday morning before coming to an end by mid-morning Monday.

Any snow accumulations from late tonight until mid-morning Monday will be on the order of a dusting to perhaps about one-half of an inch of snow at the very most. This means that very little in the way of impacts are expected across the entire area & any snow accumulations will occur on vehicles and other non-pavement surfaces.

Monday Afternoon Through Tuesday: Cloudy skies are expected during Monday afternoon with high temperatures between 34 and 39 Degrees. Winds will be East at around 5 mph.

A weak weather disturbance looks to cross the region during late Monday night and Tuesday morning. This weather disturbance looks to produce some scattered snow showers across the region from just after midnight Monday night until about mid-morning Tuesday. Any snow accumulations from the snow showers will be between a dusting to perhaps one-half of an inch or so.

Once the snow showers end by mid-morning Tuesday, skies will remain cloudy through Tuesday afternoon.

Low temperatures Monday night will be around 25 Degrees. High temperatures Tuesday will be around 40 Degrees.

Winds on Monday night will be West to Southwest at 5 to 10 mph. Winds on Tuesday will be Southwest at around 10 mph.

Active Weather Pattern Looks To Set Up From Wednesday Through Next Weekend: As I mentioned a couple of days ago it appears that an active weather pattern will set up across our area beginning on Wednesday and continuing through next weekend.

The cause for this active weather pattern will be a sharp temperature boundary that’s expected to set up over Southern New England. To the north of this boundary will be some pretty cold temperatures found across northern New England and southern Canada. To the south of this boundary will be some pretty warm temperatures across the Mid-Atlantic States and the Southeastern US.

Multiple low pressure systems are expected to track along this temperature boundary & the exact timing of the passing of each low pressure system will make for an overall uncertain forecast from Wednesday through next weekend. One thing that seems likely though is that our area will be stuck right in the middle of a battle zone leading to threats for stormy weather during the middle and later parts of this week as well as during next weekend. That said, it should be emphasized that there will not be continuous precipitation from Wednesday through next Sunday & that there will be some periods of dry weather in-between each individual weather system.

The first low pressure system looks to affect the region during the day on Wednesday. The air mass during the day on Wednesday looks to be very borderline & because of this, there are uncertainties as to whether we will see more snow than rain with this first system. I could easily foresee a scenario where more rain than snow will occur during Wednesday across the Pioneer Valley of Western Mass & across areas near and south of the Mass Pike. For areas north of the Mass Pike & especially across the northern Worcester Hills, the precipitation type could end up being mostly all snow. Given the uncertainties with the forecast on Wednesday, I will be watching it extremely closely.

The second low pressure system is currently expected to affect the region from about later Friday afternoon through Saturday. This second storm will also need to be watched very closely as the temperature profile across the region will be very marginal & thus I could foresee a scenario where mostly all snow occurs in the Worcester Hills and the Berkshires & a messy mixture of snow, ice and rain occurs south of the Mass Pike and across the Pioneer Valley of Western Mass.

And there may even be a third storm system to keep an eye on for around next Monday, February 23. This third storm could have a little more cold air available & thus could produce more in the way of a snow threat.