A Touch of Snow...
The weather office dug up an amazing stat today...Boston has been above freezing since 5AM last Thursday! Incredible when you think about it, but the streak ends tonight...and very shortly I might add. Cold air has been establishing itself on a busy NW wind today, and later tonight all will slip into the 20s. This bout of cold will be short-lived, warm air will once again surge on in but as it does so the two airmasses will clash and produce a round of snow early tomorrow morning. I expect a steady, mostly light area of snow to move in after midnight (2-3AM) and taper off by 9AM tomorrow morning. There will be snowflakes coming down for the morning commute and any untreated roads or sidewalks will get slippery. We won't have much snow...generally a coating to an inch...but from the VT / NH border northward 1-2" can be expected.
For most, I wouldn't bother shoveling this go around...by tomorrow afternoon, the sun will be peaking through softening and compacting the fresh coating and what's left of it Wednesday will take care of anyway. That will be a special day...we will be in the "warm sector" and temps will rocket up into the 50s on WSW winds. The record for Boston on Wednesday February 1st is 66 set back in 1989, I don't quite see that but 60 or slightly higher is certainly possible! In the afternoon, a coldfront will pass through and it may provide us with a brief rain shower. Following the front, a late week cooldown...nothing harsh but highs near or slightly higher than 60. The atmosphere is going to buckle a bit later this week and energy will spin up an area of low pressure on Thursday. Right now that low looks to get organized a little too far south...so for now it is a miss.
The weekend looks colder with highs in the 30s on Saturday and near 40 on Sunday. Models have been hinting at a storm forming and rolling up from the southwest but they are now backtracking on that scenario and delaying its ejection into the Northeast...storm-free for now!
