The End of the World?
My wife asked me today if all this snow meant the end of the world was coming...I assured her it wasn't...but after this evening, maybe she was right...AGAIN! What a day, we have literally seen the it all...snow, sleet, rain, freezing rain, graupel, hail and lightning...sounds like the end of the world to me! Clearly I am joking with this the end of the world thing so please don't get the wrong idea...but it is pretty crazy!
In the last hour a thunderstorm developed in the SW suburbs of Boston...Thunder reported in Millis...the cell cut through the south shore dropping convective precip...hail and graupel...don't see that too often. Another convective line of snow showers and squalls are slicing thru Western Mass and visibility went down to a half mile in snow in Pittsfield just a little while ago. These snow showers will continue across the State and another inch of snow is possible later this evening.
Aside from these renegade convective elements the temp drop is the big story. In Natick this afternoon the temp dropped 10 degrees in 20 minutes. This type of flash freeze will occur in all locals if it hasn't already tonight so ice now is a huge concern.
The next couple of days will be quiet with some sun peaking thru tomorrow especially in the afternoon after we get out from under cyclonic flow and Friday will be a Winter gem with sun and highs in the 30s. Of course though we are all looking to Saturday at this point and the next storm.
This one is still a little sketchy...the downstream blocking isn't as fierce so this will be a fast mover and the there won't be a cold high to our north so temps will be marginal. We are probably talking about a heavy wet snow North and west of Boston and maybe in the city too with a rain snow mix south of the city and all rain for the Cape and Islands...worst case (or for snow lovers, best case :-)) scenario would be 8" in an all snow zone local.
