Snow Has Arrived (Evening Report)

The forecast is still essentially the same for this moderate Winter Storm, and we're still on track for half a foot in the Berkshires. Moderate snow has overspread the area (as of 6 PM). Unfortunately, the storm is expected to come to a close around 2 or 3 AM. Unless we get some very heavy bands of snow--the 1- to 2-inch per hour bands--we'll stay on the low end of the predicted snowfall total and end up with 6-7 inches.

Image courtesy of NWS Albany.

We know you want a snow day tomorrow--and it will be snowing hard when you go to bed tonight--but road crews are going to have time to get on the roads hours before the morning commute. However, a complicating factor for tomorrow are snow squalls, which will form as the storm departs our region, But we probably won't see those squalls until later in the morning. Alas, travel from 7 AM to 9 AM will be slow but the roads will be passable.

So, we think about 40% of students will get to enjoy a late start tomorrow. Likely candidates: North County schools along the Vermont border, Central Berkshire, and Farmington River. Schools in higher elevation towns and those in the eastern part of the Berkshires should see more snow, thus they will have a better chance at a delay. We also can not rule out 1 or 2 full snow days due to extenuating circumstances. And many schools in Southern Vermont will have full snow days.

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We'll have our list running early tomorrow. Tonight the Staff's computers will be shutdown for a few hours for regularly schedule maintenance--access to GSD will not be affected--and then we'll be back up and running again by about 10 PM should there be any breaking weather news.