It's Winter -- Cold & Snow on the Way

Good, old fashioned winter will return to the Berkshires this week in a classical fashion. When you're talking about the weather this week, you will not hear Grandpa start any sentences with "Back in my day..."

The deep freeze that we've been talking about for weeks will finally arrive later tonight. The winds ushering in this cold front will be strong, and we have a Wind Advisory until 4 PM today.

We may an Alberta Clipper give us 1-3" for Monday night into Tuesday. This snow will be of the light and dusty variety, so we do not foresee a delay on Tuesday morning. We're monitoring it, but the 3" portion of the snow forecast is likely to fall well to our south.

Starting tonight, the cold comes in with extreme prejudice. We'll see 20s on MLK Jr. Day, but after that it's going to be mid- and upper teens for the daily highs all the way through Saturday. The only exception is Friday when the temps should breach the 20 degree mark. The reason we'll see the slight warm-up is a storm is in the forecast. We have very little certainty with this storm, but the computer models have produced it. If the storm does come through, it will definitely affect the length of the school day on Friday.

The weather pattern will be active for the next few weeks.

With one eye on our Monday-Tuesday Clipper, a second eye on the deep cold (possible freeze delays), and third eye on Friday's potential big storm, the staffers at GSD will be working overtime this week.