More Snow?

Yes, we'll be Spring-ing the clocks ahead this weekend by one hour, but winter will still be in the air as we move into mid-March.

Due to a Greenland block, we are expected to see cooler temperatures and normal precipitation amounts for the next several weeks. In the short term, this means we have two chances for snow--one minor and one major--in the next six days.

Over the weekend a minor system will approach from our west and give us a few flakes. The bulk of the snow will fall our southeast, but the northern edge of the storm could push into the Berkshires on Saturday. Southern Berkshire could see a few inches with lower amounts to the north.

The bigger storm could impact the length of the school day on Tuesday. Right now the Europeon model is a showing a whopper of a nor'easter with the potential for over a foot of snow. The North American model, though, takes the storm farther to the south and is only showing the chance for a few inches. Unfortunately, the European model has been over-dramatizing storms for the last month (although it did do better this past Saturday), and because the models are in such disagreement right now, we would encourage everyone to curb their excitement until we can gather more information.

The European model is suggesting a major nor'easter will hit us Monday night into Tuesday.

But...should the Euro model prove to be right, the timing and amount of precipitation looks excellent and would lead to widespread snow days throughout the Berkshires and southern and eastern New England. 

Much more to follow later this week.