What Will Tomorrow Bring?

The lull between the two phases of the storm arrived as schedule, and if you could actually make it out of your driveway this morning, roads were in pretty good shape.

But let's cut to the chase and talk about tomorrow morning. The main source of energy is slowly moving toward the coast of southern New England. Once it finally gets there, the precipitation levels will pick up in intensity. The eastern part of the state will get hammered overnight, but us folks out in the boonies should still see moderate snow totals.

What you need to do is think about phase two as a separate storm and move away from the total snowfall for this 36-hour event. Eighteen to 24 inches is much more terrifying than 4-8 inches, which is what we'll see tonight. And it's supposed to end around midnight or shortly after, which means road crews should have time to take care of the roads.

Expected additional snow by daybreak Tuesday.

What's really difficult to predict are those heavy bands of snow that come down at 1-2" per hour. This storm will have that level of energy in it still, and we haven't factored in the upslope snow that typically occurs in the Berkshires and the Greens with these coastal storms.

This is just to say that the snow could easily extend past midnight and bring an addition 4-6" in South County and 6-8" in North County, and higher amounts still (9-12") in high elevations and east-facing slopes in the Berkshires. If the snow persists toward daybreak, delays will be more popular tomorrow than snow days.

So, it may not be snowing now and the temp might have risen about 32 degrees, but we'll see cooling and an increase in precipitation later this afternoon. By dusk it should be snowing again across the Berkshires.

We'll update again later this evening.