Lots Of Sunshine Wednesday With Rain Expected On Thursday Night Across Western & Central Mass (Posted Late Tuesday Afternoon 3/24/2026)

For Tonight & Wednesday: Clear to partly cloudy skies are expected throughout tonight. Low temperatures will be near 25 Degrees. Winds will be West at 10 to 15 mph.

Wednesday will start out with partly sunny skies during the morning. An increase in clouds can be expected during the afternoon. High temperatures will be between 50 and 55 Degrees. Winds will be West at around 10 mph in the morning and Southwest at around 10 mph in the afternoon.

Wednesday Night: A weak frontal system is expected to lift northward across the region during Wednesday night.

Cloudy skies are expected throughout Wednesday night. In addition, some scattered showers can be expected during the after midnight hours. Low temperatures will be between 35 and 40 Degrees. Winds will be Southwest at 10 to 20 mph.

Thursday & Thursday Night: A mixture of some sunshine and lots of clouds can be expected throughout the day on Thursday. High temperatures will be near 60 Degrees. Winds will be Southwest at 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 30-35 mph.

A strong cold front is expected to move through the area during Thursday night. Rain is expected throughout the night on Thursday night. Rainfall totals Thursday night look to average between one quarter (0.25”) and one half (0.50”) of an inch. Low temperatures will be near 40 Degrees. Winds will be Southwest at 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph before midnight and West to Northwest at 10 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph.

Friday: Any leftover showers will come to an end during Friday morning. Skies will then remain cloudy during Friday afternoon. High temperatures will be between 45 and 50 Degrees.

This Weekend: Partly sunny skies are expected on Saturday with high temperatures between 40 and 45 Degrees.

Sunday looks sunny with high temperatures near 45 Degrees.

Scattered Snow Showers Expected The Rest Of This Afternoon & This Evening Across Western & Central Mass; Sunshine Returns On Tuesday

A trough of low pressure is expected to swing through the area during the rest of this afternoon.

Scattered snow showers can be expected across the entire area throughout the rest of this afternoon. This scattered snow shower activity is expected to persist into early this evening before it ends by around midnight or so tonight.

All in all, the snow shower activity should produce localized dustings of snow across the entire area with most of this occurring on grassy and other non pavement surfaces. Roads are expected to just be wet throughout the rest of this afternoon and this evening.

Once the snow showers end around midnight, skies are expected to become partly cloudy by well after midnight leading to temperatures to fall into the mid and upper 20s by very late tonight. This means that black ice could be an issue from the predawn hours of Tuesday morning right through just after sunrise Tuesday morning. So, be careful on area roads during the Tuesday morning commute & watch that first step going outside as decks, stairs, sidewalks and parking lots could be icy first thing Tuesday morning.

Temperatures will then rise in the middle 40s by Tuesday afternoon under partly sunny skies all day Tuesday.

10:30 pm Sunday Evening Weather Update For Western & Central Mass

Monday is looking like a pretty disgusting day in terms of weather across the entire area. This is due to snow during the morning & scattered snow showers during the afternoon.

Rain is expected to continue for the next few hours before it changes to snow by between 4 am and 6 am Monday morning. The snow is then expected to continue for a while during Monday morning, especially across areas around the Mass Pike and as far north as the Worcester Metro. The snow is expected to come an end by about 9-10 am or so Monday morning.

It should be noted that areas around the northern Worcester Hills and the Route 2 corridor may only see a brief period of snow between 4 am and 7 am Monday morning before it ends.

Snow amounts during Monday morning look to average from a dusting across the northern Worcester Hills to around 1 to perhaps as much as 2 inches of snow accumulation for areas from the Worcester Metro southward to across areas around the Mass Pike. A majority of this snow is likely to accumulate on grassy and other non-pavement surfaces. I do think that roads and other paved surfaces should be mainly wet. That being said, some slushy conditions are possible between about 4 am and 7 am when the snow might come down at a fairly moderate intensity.

As we get into Monday afternoon, it appears that scattered snow showers will occur across the entire area as a trough of low pressure swings through. Snow amounts of up to one inch is a possibility in areas that do see snow shower activity during Monday afternoon.

Temperatures during the day on Monday will only be in the low to middle 30s. Winds will be North at 7 to 14 mph.