New England’s active weather pattern resumes, with the arrival of our subsequent winter storm Friday afternoon bringing chilly and freezing rain, sleet, a wintry combine, and ultimately plain snow to components of New England. The precipitation will intensify through the afternoon and night, making for iffy highway circumstances, earlier than slowly truly fizzling out in a single day.
This spherical of wintry climate has an identical setup to Wednesday, however with way more juice within the environment to supply the carry we want for widespread precipitation. There can be an preliminary heat entrance stretching east throughout the area forward of the storm’s core. Also, there’s an excellent likelihood for a secondary low to type over the ocean that ought to increase precipitation at occasions.
For Southern New England, we are able to anticipate to start with a wintry combine and chilly rain, particularly by the coast, together with Boston, and south of the Mass Pike. Then the rain-snow line will regularly shift southward Friday night and into the evening, and that’s when snow accumulation is feasible. I’ve Boston totaling between 1 and three inches of snow by midday, Saturday, and north of Boston larger.
Folks throughout Northern New England can anticipate snow from the beginning of this storm, with totals seemingly reaching 3 to six inches, with a scattering of 6- to 8-inch totals in components of New Hampshire, Vermont, and Western Maine.
These maps element Friday’s attainable storm impacts on New England:
• 6 to eight inches: Central Vermont and New Hampshire, together with Concord and Plymouth; Rutland, Vt., and Western Maine.
• 3 to six inches: North of Route 2 and north of Boston (north of I-495 and even I-95); northern half of the Berkshires may additionally find yourself on this zone, together with Greenfield and North Adams; Portland, Manchester, Keene, and Bennington, Vt.; and Augusta, Maine space.
• 1 to three inches: Greater Boston, the South Shore to about Scituate, Worcester, Springfield; northern Rhode Island and Connecticut; Bangor, Maine space.
• Coating to 1 inch: South Shore, Providence, Hartford, Outer Cape.
• Rain or wintry combine: Entire southern coast of New England, together with a lot of the Cape and the islands.
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