Snow For Saturday

The good news is that a nor'easter is heading toward us for Saturday. The bad news is that this medium/biggish storm will just miss us to the south and east. All of Berkshire County should see snow on Saturday with South County likely to get 1-3 inches, and Northern Berkshire only seeing an inch.

Enjoy it while it lasts, Downeast Maine!

The models are in good agreement right now on this low snow total outcome. There is the small possibility that the storm will hug more tightly to the coast and bring the storm more inland, but the GSD Staff does not think too highly of that scenario. If it does, we would see Winter Weather Advisories for Saturday but no Winter Storm Watches or Warnings.

Even though it's a Saturday and we're not going to see much from this storm, at least we're finally talking about snow again.

We also have our eye on a light Alberta Clipper on Monday that could bring 2-3 inches to our area if it develops off the coast.

These storms usher in a deeper winter chill for all of next week. Get out the face covering again.

Winter Doldrums

Hopefully everyone enjoyed a nice three-day weekend and is well rested for a big four-day week. It's twiddling thumbs time these days in the ol' GSD Home Office as we have very little to report by way of storms for the next ten days.

We could see a light dusting Wednesday night into Thursday, and there is some discussion of a short period of snow on Monday afternoon, but that storm is so far off and our forecast so speculative that we aren't even being responsible by mentioning it. But that's how bad things are these days on the winter storm front. Temperatures for the next week will be fairly normal this time of year. The low for the week will be Wednesday morning--single digits--while the high this week will occur on Thursday--mid 30s.

We are due for a change in the weather pattern, at some point. It might not occur for a few weeks, but when things do shift, we'll should see an active period for the first part of February. Nothing brings on February vacation faster than a few well-timed snow days!

Keep the faith; we'll have good news eventually.

Brutal Cold Returns (But Not For Long)

Tomorrow morning could bring us the coldest temperatures since...last Thursday. Last Thursday we saw almost 100% of the schools in the district call in a two-hour delay or complete day off.

Why is there no discussion of a delay tomorrow, then? The main reason is the lack of wind. Last week we had a Wind Chill Warning for our area, which doesn't happen often; tomorrow we will have a wind chill of nil, nada, and zip. Also, temps will warm up fairly rapidly during the day and get all the way into the 20s.

Projected temps for 7 AM Wednesday. That's a -7 over North Adams.

Unfortunately, we see no storms coming in the next week--just a small chance of snow showers Thursday night into Friday. And above average warmth will take over the Northeast for the last two weeks of January. We still could see storms in this period, but we'll be dealing with the snow-sleet-rain regression, which simply isn't fun and usually leads to dashed hopes.

Perhaps you'll win the lottery and your buses won't start tomorrow. Best of luck with that!