We’re looking at a messy travel day on Sunday as people head home after the Thanksgiving holiday, and another, messier storm system is headed our way later in the week.
Here’s what to expect:
Thanksgiving travel impacts
Early snow showers continue to move across high elevations of the Berkshires, southern Vermont, and central New Hampshire, creating slick roads. Scattered rain showers spread into Boston around noon time. The rain will be off and on through early evening as more showers push through. Our wind is more from the south so we manage to reach the 40s in southeastern New England before the cold front moves through after sunset. The showers taper off west to east between 5-9 p.m. after getting around a tenth to 0.25 inches of rainfall. Sunday night into Monday we clear out, and highs Monday return to around 40 with a gusty west wind.
Tuesday First Alert
A wintry mess will create hazardous travel across the northeast for Tuesday, Tuesday night, and lingering into Wednesday morning. Our forecast models are still showing different tracks for our storm and a timing difference of a few hours. It’s still a general Tuesday morning, midday and night storm. With the forecast models shifting a bit more south as of the 00z runs Sunday morning.
The GFS (American model) has the storm over Nantucket. This would bring in more rain and warmer temps, less snow but still a mix to a few inches of accumulation in the Worcester Hills and mountains.
The other possibility is that the storm center is far southeast and offshore (EURO) for Tuesday. This would bring more snow and higher totals of plowable accumulation around 495, higher elevations, a mix to rain at the coast. However, the swath of 3-6 inches of snow may need to be moved from the Worcester Hills, to instead across interior Plymouth County, Bristol County, and into northern Rhode Island to northern Connecticut. Stay tuned as our early snow map will likely need to be changed or adjusted.
Any track still looks like mainly rain at the coast and in Boston due to a more northeasterly wind off a very warm ocean. The only chance for snow in Boston may be a quick dusting as the storm pulls away on Wednesday morning and as colder air rushes in for predawn. Stay tuned for more details on this storm for Tuesday.
