It's beginning to look and feel like winter.
Snow flurries greeted the GSD Staff on the morning commute to the Home Office in Williamstown this morning, putting a bounce in the step of your fulltime winter weather brokers.
Good news...we have several chances for measurable snow over the next ten days or so. We'll see a few more flurries today, and then on Sunday we may see longer periods of snow showers that could bring a dusting to the Berkshires.
But the more delicious development is the potential for a coastal storm on Tuesday, perhaps extending into the wheelhouse hours of the morning commute on Wednesday. This storm has the chance to impact the length of the school day on Wednesday. Unfortunately, this is no blockbuster storm. If this storm were to arrive at the end of winter, we wouldn't be worked up about it at all. But because it could possibly be the first plowable snowstorm of the season, there's reason to get a just a smidge tingly all over because of it.
The most optimistic models indicate the potential for 6 inches. The least cooperative models don't quite bring the two energy systems together and we end up with snow showers and perhaps a dusting. It's always good to split the middle this far out in front of a storm, so the GSD Staff is going to (rather cautiously) forecast 3 inches of snow over the course of the day Tuesday, with the snow ending just after midnight. Alas, should this not-so-bold prediction come true, we will not have delays on Wednesday for Berkshire County schools. A near miss.
But we expect a lot more information on this storm, and we'll see what future runs of the storm models bring us in the next 72 hours.
Until then, think very snowy thoughts.
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