If you've been dreaming of a white Christmas lately, you may be in luck. We have two shots at getting snow this week, one minor and one decidedly more significant.
The first opportunity for snow is throughout the day on Monday. A storm to the south will push into our area and lead to steady light snow throughout the day. Folks on southern Berkshire County stand to get more of the snow--possibly 2"--while those in central and northern parts of the county will only see an inch.
Then, all attention moves to a bigger coastal storm late Wednesday night. Right now travel on Wednesday should not be an issue. Accuweather is predicting the snow to start around midnight for the Berkshires, and it should come down--possibly heavy at times--through noon on Thursday. Travel on Thursday morning could be difficult.
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| The darker green is the forecast for heavy snow on Wednesday night and Thursday. The lighter green is for heavy precipitation. |
Let's talk about best and worst case scenarios. (We'll let you decide which is the worst and which is the best.) One scenario is that the storm doesn't quite push far enough north and drifts underneath us out to see. In that situation, we could see 3-6" in South County and 1-3" for the rest of us. The other scenario is that the storm "bombs out" on the coast and pushes heavy frozen precipitation well into Western Mass and southern Vermont and New Hampshire. If that were to happen, South County is looking at 10-16" and 4-8" in North County.
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| Accuweather meteorologists are fully on board for a big storm. |
Most of the weather experts we consult are very confident that it's going to snow hard. The exact track is still to be determined, but we the whole county should wake up to a winter wonderland on Thursday.
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