For Tonight: The cloud cover and occasional snow flurries that we’re seeing this afternoon will give way to partly cloudy skies by this evening. Partly cloudy skies are then expected throughout the overnight hours of tonight.
Low temperatures will be around 20 Degrees. Winds will be West at around 10 mph.
Sunday: Sunny to partly sunny skies are expected throughout the day on Sunday. High temperatures will be around 35 Degrees. Winds will be North to Northwest at around 10 mph in the morning and South to Southeast at around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Some Light Snow May Occur During Late Sunday Night Into Monday Morning: While a significant snowstorm is not expected across the area, it appears that a storm system tracking to the south of New England may come close enough to give us some light snow late Sunday night into Monday morning.
It is expected that an area of low pressure will track off of the North Carolina coast by Sunday evening. This low pressure system will head towards the northeast as it’s guided by the southern branch of the jet stream.
What has changed over the past 12-24 hours or so is that even though the northern and southern branches of the jet stream probably will not fully phase, they have trended towards a scenario where the northern branch of the jet stream may be dynamic enough & dig far enough south to at least partially pull that low pressure system far enough north so that at least some light snow will occur across Western and Central Mass during late Sunday night and Monday morning.
Because of these changes in the track of this low pressure system, we are now going to have to keep a close eye on the possibility of the shield of steady snow pushing further north than what is currently forecast. At this time, it appears that the steady accumulating snow may push as far north as areas from southern Connecticut & far southern Rhode Island southward through New York City, Long Island, eastern Pennsylvania and much of New Jersey.
For our area to see enough snow accumulation to plow, we are going to have to see both the northern and southern branches of jet stream to fully phase causing that low pressure system to track much closer to Southern New England. At this point, I don’t see this happening, but it’s something that I will be keeping an eye on, just in case.
My Thinking Is That we’ll see intermittent very light snow across areas north of the Mass Pike late Sunday night into Monday morning with a dusting at most in terms of snow accumulation. For areas near and south of the Mass Pike, periods of light snow look possible late Sunday night into Monday morning that could lead to a dusting to perhaps up to one inch of snow accumulation.
Even though I’m not expecting really anything here across the area, I am still going to keep very close tabs on this storm, just in case we do see any more shifts northward in the track of the storm.
