Boston was blanketed in the season’s biggest snowstorm Sunday night into Monday morning, with frigid air on the way and potential for more unsettled weather in the days to come.
“For the most part, the Boston area received between four and six inches of snow over the last 24 hours,” said NWS meteorologist Torry Dooley as of Monday evening. “There were some slightly higher snow totals down south of the city, down towards the Taunton area, where six to seven inches of snow accumulated. … Now we’re left with a nice, fresh blanket of snow, and it’s not going to go anywhere anytime soon.”
Boston saw a total of 5.3 inches of snow at Logan airport after the snowfall Sunday night and Monday morning, NWS recorded, which adds up to almost half of the snow measured all winter. The last recorded time the airport received over five inches of snow appeared to be in December 2024, Dooley said.
Some areas further south in the New England region saw up to 7.7 inches of snow, NWS stated following the storm.
Forecasts expected “quick bursts of arctic air” through Monday night, making Tuesday morning “quite chilly,” Dooley said.
“We’ll have wind chills (Tuesday) morning in the single digits across most of the area for Boston,” said Dooley, noting the chills could be as low as 5 degrees around 6 a.m. … “So fairly cold weather. This arctic air will be brief, only with us for about a day.”
The region is forecast to warm up to near seasonal temperatures Wednesday and Thursday, with highs around the upper 30s to low 40s, according to the weather service. Wednesday night may also see some “light shower activity” but not really any impact, as a weak clipper system passes through, Dooley said.
Then temperatures are expected to drop again quickly in the late week.
“We’ll have more persistent cold air arriving late Friday night into this upcoming weekend,” said Dooley. “And we really want to highlight the potential for some dangerous windchills, especially Friday night to Saturday morning and Saturday night into Sunday morning, where windchills could be about 10-below zero.”
The cold pattern of well below normal temperatures are expected to last into early next week, the meteorologist added.
There are rumblings of another storm by the end of the next weekend, Dooley said, and while long-term guidance shows something brewing late in the weekend, it’s “too early to say whether or not that would bring impacts to southern New England.”
Right now, he added, the primary weather impact for next weekend is expected to be the very cold bout of weather.
Dooley reminded residents to keep an eye out for ice and safety hazards with the snowfall and low temperatures.
“When it’s really cold, we recommend those folks who do work outside take frequent breaks inside to warm on up,” said Dooley. “Another thing is to really leave no skin exposed, especially when we have wind chills well below zero. Prolonged skin exposure to the elements could lead to frostbite. And especially with it being below freezing, just keep a mindful eye on any slick surfaces that might be outside, your driveway, your walkway, any untreated surfaces.”
