Friday, January 15, 2021

Winter Weather Advisory For Late Friday Night

The higher up you live in the Berkshires, the better chance you have of seeing measurable snow this evening and Saturday. The National Weather Service over in Albany announced a Winter Weather Advisory early this afternoon with the potential for 2-5 inches of snow by 10 AM. 

The precipitation will stream in from south late tonight. It will probably start as rain for most in the county before changing over to mixed precipitation and then a period of snow. How long the precipitation comes down as snow will largely be determined by the elevation of your town. It's hard to say for sure, but 1200 feet seems to be a dividing line. Below 1200 feet, don't expect much. Above 1200', you could see up to 5 inches. 

Whether you see snow or not, tomorrow morning is going to be wet, slushy and windy. We could see gusts approaching 40 mph as we near daybreak.

Looking ahead, it will finally feel like January by Wednesday. Temps will eventually settle into a pattern of highs in the low 20s and lows in the low teens by next weekend. As for snow, we are watching a possible plowable event at the end of next week. For now we'll circle Thursday as the possible day, but that circle is only in very light pencil.

We would love more certainty about upcoming storms at this stage of the winter, but our chances for winter mayhem will increase markedly once the cold air gets entrenched in our region. Good things are yet to come. 

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