We’ve got another messy night on the way.
Snow, sleet, freezing rain and rain are all in the forecast in the next 12-24 hours.
While we won’t be getting a whole lot of any of the above, it will be just enough to cause some travel headaches early on Thursday.

TIMELINE:
Up first, the snow.
First flakes will arrive between 10pm and midnight.
The snow will struggle to accumulate and make any real impact. For the first few hours it will be light and spotty, leaving just some scattered coatings.

By the time the precipitation gets steadier, warmer air will already be moving in aloft.
The snow will quickly change to a mix of sleet, freezing rain and rain right around dawn.
At the Coastline and across much of eastern MA, the snow will go right over to rain.
There will be some lingering pockets of freezing rain north and west of 495 and up in southern New Hampshire.

Between 7am and noon on Thursday the steady precipitation will end and we will be left with mostly scattered rain showers
Snowfall totals are almost not worth mentioning.
Most folks in southern New England won’t even know that it snowed overnight.
The coatings will quickly be turned to slush and water thanks to the change to rain.
There may be an inch or so of snow on the ground early Thursday morning in parts of southern New Hampshire and northmost Worcester county.

The biggest concern on Thursday morning will be for some light icing, mainly in central and western MA, as well as parts of southern New Hampshire.
In these areas, temperatures will be very slow to warm above freezing and any untreated roadways will be slippery.

The Weekend:
Probably not the news you wanted to hear…it looks like we have another stormy Weekend on the way.
Unlike our last several storms, this one will be loaded with moisture and also will be slow moving.
We will be getting much more model data in the next 24 hours. We anticipate that by Thursday afternoon, we will be able to give a reasonable estimate of timing, impacts and snowfall amounts.
In general, we expect this storm to start as snow, sometime around late Saturday afternoon or Saturday evening.
We don’t expect this to be a major snowstorm, but a plowable snow is a good bet.
We also think it will change to ice and/or rain at some point Saturday night into Sunday morning.
The rain/ice will likely linger for a good portion of the day Sunday.
So, if you want to get out and about this Weekend, the first half of Saturday would be your best bet to stay dry.
We will have much more on this storm in the next 24-48 hours.


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