Winter Weather Advisory for Saturday

A wide array of types of weather is currently bombarding and will bombard Berkshire County today and tomorrow.

Flash Flood Warnings have been declared for our area due to the heavy rain and melting snow. This Warning will expire at 4:45 this afternoon. Watch for streams and rivers that are close to roads.

A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect starting late tonight and lasting through the day tomorrow. The temperature will sink like a stone and make for a messy period of travel in the morning tomorrow. Roads will ice over, and any lingering rain showers will turn to sleet and snow. You should see this switchover between 5 AM and 10 AM tomorrow. As long as road crews are out ahead of this period of the storm, travel should be slow but fine.

Some of the signs we need to see ahead of a snowstorm are beginning to materialize for a midweek snowstorm. Again, the North American model gives us a stronger storm; the Euro's forecast model is less strong but still calls for widespread snow for our area. Right now the range could be 1-2 at the worst and 6-8 at best. This potential storm is trending in the right direction as of now.

Accuweather thinks we'll see snow next week.

Be careful on the roads tonight and tomorrow morning. And all hands are on deck monitoring the midweek snowstorm potential.

Bye-Bye Snow

Spring-like warmth has returned to Berkshires. We got to 50 degrees at the GSD Home Office today, and with mid-50s readings expected tomorrow--along with over an inch of rain--our cozy foot of snow will be washed out. Alas.

A flood watch is in effect tomorrow into Saturday due to all the rain and melting snow.

The good news is the cold air will not be gone for long. On Sunday morning, you will once again awake to single digits, and the highs on Sunday will struggle to get into the teens. We will see a moderation of the temperatures toward more normal highs and lows as the week progresses, which sets up the conditions for snow.

Speaking of snow, our consultants are suggesting a storm could happen Tuesday night into Wednesday. A classic two-systems-converging storm event might impact the Berkshires. The North American model is stronger on this storm than the European. The North American did pretty well last time around, so this is a good sign.

If all comes to fruition, we could see a 5 to 9-inch blanket on the Berkshires. We will certainly slow our roll on this storm for now, but it has definitely piqued our interest.

The precipitation forecast for Tuesday/Wednesday. Half an inch of precip would yield about half a foot of snow. We like it!

Get out the rain slicker tonight--you're going to need it for the next few days.

Light Snow For Monday

Wow. What a crazy week we just had. Sub-zero temps. Incredibly low wind chills. An overperforming snow storm. Freeze delays, early releases, snow days, freeze days. We had it all in Berkshire County last week.

This week will be active, but we won't be seeing any newsmaking weather events. (That's probably not a good thing, given how much fun the regular news is these days.)

Snow will be in the air tomorrow, with the roads getting a coating at some point midday. The ride home from school might be a little slow, but this minor Alberta clipper is not a big deal.

Later in the week we'll see a big warmup. There's an outside chance we could see 50 in some parts on Friday. We do not like this trend one bit, as it is January in New England, and temps should not leave the 30s.

In terms of plowable/shovelable snow, we're not seeing anything until the middle of next week, and that's a low confidence forecast.

It's looking like a full week of school for everyone until Martin Luther King, Jr. day. We'll check back in if we hear anything you need to be concerned about.