Breaking Weather News: WWA

Despite many signs (see previous post) that the storm is not going to be "that big of a deal," the National Weather Service has upped the ante and awarded us a Winter Weather Advisory for the region starting at 3 am and ending at 7 pm Wednesday night.

The weather model watchers--the professional meteorologists--are now saying we could see up to 6", which is over the 4" threshold that triggers the WWA. South County will still be the beneficiaries of the raised snow totals, but we won't be surprised to see 4 or 5" in Pittsfield.

So...what does this mean for your school district tomorrow? This one will be very hard to predict as it will mostly be in the hands of town road crew managers and their ability to clean the roads in an efficacious manner. We think that South County schools have a much higher chance of a snow day because the snow will likely start there sooner (50%). Your chances of a snow day will decrease as you move northward up Route 7. It will not be surprising at all to see Southern Berkshire and Lee with no school and a full day of school in North Adams tomorrow.

We're definitely on high alert and will give an update somewhere between 9 and 10. We're definitely more encouraged now than we were in our last post, but we're still cautiously pessimistic.