Thursday, January 25, 2024

Wishful Thinking: Friday Delay and Monday Snow Day

We have two school-shortening weather opportunities in the next few days.

This afternoon, NWS Albany issued a Winter Weather Advisory for early Friday morning due an ice threat. Before you get too excited for a delay, this Advisory is for high elevation towns (1500' and above). This means the hilltown elementary schools, Adams-Cheshire, and Central Berkshire would have the best chance for an ice delay.

NWS Albany ice forecast for Friday morning.

And we are keeping an eye or two on a developing snow situation for Sunday night into Monday. The timing looks really good, but the question is: will cold air move in quickly enough to allow the snow to pile up? Models from earlier today were showing a range of 3 inches (American) to 8 inches (European). The fact that both models are showing snow for Monday is encouraging.

The American model for Monday. If the timing is right, this could be just enough to cause snow days.

There's a lot that could still change with this late weekend storm, but our interest is definitely piqued at the GSD Office.

We'll run a list of delays tomorrow should we see a few.

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