Rain Is Expected From Thursday Through Friday Across Western & Central Mass With Some Wet Snow Expected In The Worcester Hills & Berkshires During Late Thursday Night & Friday

For The Rest Of This Afternoon & Tonight: Lots of sunshine can be expected throughout the rest of this afternoon. Temperatures will be in the middle 50s. Winds will be West to Northwest at around 10 mph.

Skies are expected to start out clear to partly cloudy this evening, but will quickly become cloudy during the overnight hours of tonight. Low temperatures will be around 35 Degrees. Winds will be North to Northwest at around 5 mph before midnight and Northeast at 5 to 10 mph after midnight.

Thursday Through Saturday: An area of low pressure is expected to push off of the Mid Atlantic coastline during the day Thursday & then pass just south of New England during Thursday night and Friday. This low pressure system is then expected to track into the Gulf of Maine by Friday night. This low pressure system is expected to bring a mainly cold rain across the entire area from Thursday through Friday with some showers persisting into Saturday. It is possible that some wet snow could occur on Thursday night into Friday across the Worcester Hills and the Berkshires, but any snow accumulation will be extremely minimal.

Rain looks to overspread all of Western and Central Mass by about the mid and late morning hours of Thursday. The rain is then expected to continue through all of Thursday afternoon & the rain intensity looks to be generally light to moderate. High temperatures Thursday will be between 45 and 50 Degrees. Winds will be Northeast at 7 to 15 mph.

Rain is expected to continue through all of Thursday night. It is expected that the rain could either mix with or change to some wet snow during the after midnight hours of Thursday night across the Worcester Hills, the hilltowns of Western Mass and across the Berkshires. Lower elevation and especially valley locations will remain as all rain throughout Thursday night. Low temperatures Thursday night will be around 35 Degrees. Winds will be North to Northeast at 10 to 20 mph.

Friday is looking like a downright cold and miserable day across all of Western and Central Mass. A cold rain is expected throughout the day on Friday across the lower elevation and valley locations of Western and Central Mass. Meanwhile, a mixture of rain or snow or even some wet snow at times can be expected throughout the day on Friday across the Worcester Hills, the Hilltowns of Western Mass and the Berkshires. High temperatures Friday will be in the upper 30s to low 40s. Winds will be North at 10 to 20 mph.

Even though wet snow is expected during the late night hours of Thursday night and during the day on Friday across the Worcester Hills, the Hilltowns of Western Mass and the Berkshires, snow accumulations will be minimal. It’s possible that up to one inch or so of sloppy, slushy snow is possible on non-pavement and grassy surfaces & roads and other paved surfaces will stay wet.

That low pressure system is expected to begin to pull away from the Gulf of Maine during Saturday. Because of this, I think that we will see cloudy skies throughout the day on Saturday. In addition, I do think that we will see some on and off scattered rain and snow showers throughout the day. No snow accumulation is anticipated from any of the snow shower activity. High temperatures will be near 40 Degrees.

Sunday & Monday: An area of high pressure is expected to build into the region during Sunday and Monday.

Sunday looks partly sunny with high temperatures near 45 Degrees.

Monday is expected to be sunny to partly sunny with high temperatures between 45 and 50 Degrees.