Cold & Very Windy Weather Continues Tonight Through All Of Thursday & Thursday Night

For Tonight: Very windy conditions are expected to continue throughout tonight across the entire area. West to Northwest winds of 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 40-50 mph can be expected throughout tonight.

Skies will start out partly cloudy this evening and will become cloudy by after midnight tonight. A piece of upper level energy rotating southward around a big low pressure located over Atlantic Canada will make its way into Western and Central Mass by sunrise Thursday morning. Some scattered snow showers are expected to push southward into mainly Central parts of Mass by about sunrise Thursday morning. Any snow showers around sunrise Thursday morning across Central Mass would easily stick to roads leading to slick conditions in areas that see snow showers. Snow amounts look minimal and should amount to perhaps a dusting or so.

Low temperatures tonight will be between 5 and 10 Degrees. Wind chill temperatures tonight will be near 5 below zero before midnight and between minus 10 and minus 15 after midnight.

Thursday: Scattered snow showers are expected to continue across mostly Central Mass during the morning. Any snow that does fall during Thursday morning will easily stick to roads leading to slick conditions in areas that do see snow showers. Snow amounts during Thursday morning should average about a dusting in areas that see snow shower activity.

More important though will be the very windy conditions that are expected all day on Thursday. West to Northwest winds of 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45-55 mph are expected throughout the day.

High temperatures will be near 25 Degrees. Wind chill temperatures will be between Zero and minus 10 during the morning and near 10 above zero during the afternoon.

Thursday Night: Clear to partly cloudy skies are expected during Thursday night. Low temperatures will be between 15 and 20 Degrees. It will continue to be quite windy with Northwest winds of 20 to 25 mph with gusts to 45 mph. Wind chill temperatures during Thursday night will be around Zero.

Friday: Less wind and milder temperatures are expected on Friday under sunny skies. High temperatures will be near 35 Degrees. Winds will be West to Northwest at 10 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph.

Friday Night & Saturday: An area of low pressure is expected to make its way across the southern United States the next couple of days bringing enough snow and ice to lead to very hazardous conditions to areas from northern Texas and southern Oklahoma through Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, northern Mississippi, northern Alabama and northern Georgia as well as parts of the central and western Carolinas.

It now looks very likely that this storm system will push far enough to our south to not significantly impact our weather this weekend as the southern and northern parts of the jet stream will not phase together. Instead, what looks to occur is that a smaller and much weaker storm system will move along the northern part of the jet stream during Saturday. This smaller storm system will affect our weather during the day on Saturday with some periods of light snow.

Friday night will start out clear to partly cloudy, but skies will become cloudy during the after midnight hours. Low temperatures will be near 20 Degrees. Winds will be West to Northwest at 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday looks cloudy throughout the day. In addition, some periods of light snow looks fairly likely at times during the day. While it probably will not snow all day long, I do think that we’ll probably see at least a couple of periods of light snow during the day. My thinking is that the first round of light snow will occur during the morning and a second round of light snow occurring during the late afternoon and early evening hours.

Snow amounts look pretty light with around one inch or so of snow accumulation for most areas.

High temperatures Saturday will be between 30 and 35 Degrees.

Sunday & Monday: An area of high pressure will cross the region from Sunday through Monday.

Sunday looks partly sunny with high temperatures between 35 and 40 Degrees.

Monday is expected to feature a mixture of some sunshine and lots of clouds with high temperatures near 35 Degrees.

Tuesday & Next Wednesday: A frontal system is expected to cross the region during the day Tuesday. This front will bring with it another shot of colder air behind it.

Tuesday will be cloudy and there will be some scattered snow showers during the late morning into the afternoon hours. High temperatures will be near 35 Degrees.

Next Wednesday looks partly sunny with high temperatures between 25 and 30 Degrees.

Early Tuesday Afternoon Update On This Weekend's Possible Snowfall

Looking at the latest weather guidance and other data, it is beginning to appear that a light snowfall is looking increasingly more likely during Saturday afternoon into part of Saturday night.

The reason for this has to do with the two parts of the jet stream. To get a major blockbuster type snowstorm here, you need to have the northern and southern parts of the jet stream to phase right over the East Coast of the United States. This causes a powerful storm system to form from this which then produces major amounts of snow.

Instead, what looks to potentially happen is that the northern and southern parts of the jet stream will remain separate. This will lead to a storm system over the southern United States to remain south of our area & another weaker storm system to push its way across the region during Saturday and Saturday night.

Given this, I'm thinking that we could see a period of snow during Saturday afternoon and during the first half of Saturday night that leads to something like a 1 to 3 inch or 2 to 4 inch type snowfall.

That said, the uncertainty with this weekend's storm remains fairly high and because of this, the forecast for the weekend can & probably will still change. Some ways it could change include having both storm systems miss the area leaving us with no snow; having both streams of the jet stream to phase which would lead to a big snowstorm Saturday afternoon through Sunday and finally having a partial phase of the two parts of the jet stream which would lead to a moderate sized snowfall Saturday afternoon through Sunday.

More updates on this weekend's weather will be posted as needed.

One thing that is much more certain with the forecast the next few days will be the cold and very windy conditions.

West to Northwest winds of 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph are expected to continue throughout tonight, all of Wednesday, all of Wednesday night and all of Thursday.

These strong winds will combine with low temperatures tonight and Wednesday night of around 10 Degrees to produce wind chill temperatures of around 10 below zero tonight and Wednesday night.

These strong winds will also combine with high temperatures on Wednesday and Thursday of around 25 Degrees to produce wind chill temperatures of Zero to 10 above zero throughout the daytime hours of Wednesday and Thursday.

Cold & Very Windy The Rest Of This Week Across Western & Central Mass; Uncertainty Remains High Concerning How A Storm Might Affect Our Weather This Weekend

For Tonight: The storm system that brought significant snow and ice accumulations to the Mid-Atlantic states will push offshore tonight. As it does this, this storm system is expected to strengthen significantly leading to the pressure gradient over our area to tighten up. This will lead to windy conditions to develop by after midnight tonight.

Cloudy skies are expected this evening with skies becoming partly cloudy after midnight tonight. Low temperatures will be near 10 Degrees. Winds will be Northwest at 10 to 15 mph before midnight and Northwest at 15 to 20 mph with gusts to 30-35 mph after midnight. Wind chill temperatures of 5 to 10 below zero are expected during the after midnight hours of tonight.

Tuesday & Tuesday Night: A cold and windy day is expected across the area on Tuesday under a mixture of sunshine and clouds. High temperatures will be near 25 Degrees. Winds will be West to Northwest at 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph. Wind chill temperatures of around zero are expected in the morning and then between zero and 5 above zero during the afternoon.

Tuesday night looks clear to partly cloudy and windy. Low temperatures will be near 10 Degrees. Winds will be West to Northwest at 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph. Wind chill temperatures will average between zero and 10 below zero throughout the night.

Wednesday Through Friday: The cold and very windy conditions are expected to persist throughout Wednesday and Thursday before the winds slowly abate on Friday.

Wednesday will be sunny to start with, however, skies will become a mixture of sunshine and clouds during the afternoon. High temperatures will be between 20 and 25 Degrees. Winds will be West to Northwest at 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 40-50 mph. Wind chill temperatures on Wednesday will be between zero and 10 above zero.

Wednesday night looks partly cloudy with low temperatures near 10 Degrees. Winds will be West to Northwest at 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 40-50 mph. Wind chill temperatures will be near 10 below zero.

Thursday will feature a mixture of sunshine and clouds. Additionally, there is the possibility of some scattered snow showers during the morning. It will continue to be very windy throughout Thursday. High temperatures will be near 25 Degrees. Winds will be West to Northwest at 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 40-50 mph.

Friday looks sunny to partly sunny with high temperatures between 30 and 35 Degrees. The west to northwest winds are expected to lessen on Friday with speeds of 15 to 20 mph expected.

This Weekend: There continues to be a large amount of uncertainty as to whether a storm system pushing off of the East Coast of the United States will affect our weather or not.

Both the track and strength of this storm system are very uncertain as the weather forecast guidance continue to depict a lot of different scenarios with some guidance flip-flopping from one extreme to another in just one model run. Because of this, you should not believe anyone on YouTube or on social media that are showing the models that are now depicting a big snowstorm for our area as we are far from really knowing how this storm might play out.

That said, all options in terms of how this storm might affect our area are still very much on the table. These scenarios include a complete miss to the south, which would leave us with no snow. The scenarios also include a storm that passes near the Cape, which would lead to a significant snowfall along with very gusty winds for the entire area starting on Saturday afternoon and lasting until late Sunday morning.

I think that we’re still at least a couple of days away from really knowing how this storm might play out and what sort of impacts it might have on our area.

I will be watching this possible storm closely throughout this week and will have many more updates for you as needed.

For now, this is what I’m going with for this weekend:

Saturday will be cloudy and there is the possibility of some snow during the afternoon. High temperatures will be between 30 and 35 Degrees.

Saturday night looks cloudy and there is the possibility of some snow throughout the night. Low temperatures will be between 20 and 25 Degrees.

Sunday will be cloudy with some snow possible in the morning. High temperatures will be near 35 Degrees.