Light to Moderate Winter Weather Impacts Anticipated Tonight Major Winter Storm Potential for Late Sunday Night/Monday – Especially for the Southeast Half of Southern New England The forecast for the storm now underway as this is being written has not changed much.  The potential coastal storm for late Sunday night and Monday has been on… Read More »

A Tale of Two Storms Whether the weather actually turns out interesting or not, forecasting the next two events looks to be interesting and challenging.  There is moderate to high confidence of a somewhat impactful winter storm for a sizable portion of southern New England Friday afternoon and night.  This is a complicated situation, however,… Read More »

Updated Significant Weather Outlook Forecasting continues to be challenging this week into early next week.  The rationale for this morning’s update is what looks to be less snow tonight based on model trends overnight (including the higher resolution regional models).  The second system late Friday afternoon and night could be potentially significant, but there are… Read More »

Updated Significant Weather Outlook Will probably provide daily updated weather message blogs for at least a time this week due to a fairly active, albeit very low confidence, weather pattern.  As noted in yesterday’s outlook, this is certainly an interesting and challenging week from a forecast perspective.  It remains to be seen just how interesting… Read More »

Significant Weather Weekly Outlook  This looks to be an interesting and challenging week from a forecast perspective and may or may not result in interesting weather for southern New England.  Taking a look at the larger (i.e., synoptic) picture at the mid tropospheric level (500 mb pressure level), a series of short wavelength troughs flow… Read More »

Significant Weather Weekly Outlook Weather highlights this week are anticipated to include snow Tuesday evening, moderating temperatures, and possibly a significant rain or snow storm late this coming weekend into early next week. From a significant weather perspective, snow Tuesday evening is expected to be generally light but still with the potential for several inches… Read More »

Significant Snow and Cold this Weekend  Update The factors noted below on yesterday’s message appear to be in play and have increased confidence of a general 4 to 6-inch snowfall (of the fluffy variety) across RI as well as east central and eastern MA.  Within this area expect a few areas of still higher amounts… Read More »

Significant Snow and Cold this Weekend The extreme cold remains on track for late Saturday through Sunday as long advertised.  An Extreme Cold Warning is now in effect for western and central portions of southern New England and Cold Weather Advisories elsewhere.  In addition, several factors appear to be coming together for a more significant… Read More »