On Wednesday at 3:32 p.m. the National Weather Service issued an updated wind advisory in effect until Thursday at 1 a.m. for Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket counties.
The latest Massachusetts snow storm was nothing to write home about, but it did fall in time to make the Wednesday morning commute a bit slower in much of the state. Snow delays were declared for some Massachusetts schools as a result.
By Thursday, Massachusetts residents can expect to feel temperatures in the mid-to-upper 20s in most of the state, with temperatures in the 30s on the coast, and on Cape Cod and the Islands, according to the National Weather Service.
Massachusetts is expected to see several inches of snowfall Wednesday, according to the latest forecast from the National Weather Service's Boston office. A NWS meteorologist said Monday that a weather system known as an Alberta Clipper is expected to pass over the region from Canada Wednesday,
The National Weather Service issued a cold weather advisory for parts of western Massachusetts, which is in effect from midnight to 10 a.m. Wednesday. The following impacted areas could get wind chills as low as negative 15 degrees, with the exception of Northern Berkshire County, which could see wind chills as low as negative 25 degrees:
Meteorologists are predicting “plowable snowfall” across Massachusetts from Sunday night into Monday morning, as a nor’easter is expected to dump 3 to 6 inches of snow.
Snow is expected to begin around midnight tonight and continue into Wednesday morning, according to the NWS. "The highest snow totals will be in northern MA along the Route 2 corridor, where 1-3 inches is likely, with localized 4-5 possible in high terrain," NWS meteorologists wrote in the latest area forecast Tuesday.
A 3.8 magnitude earthquake is on the smaller end of the Richter scale and even for people who may have felt it here in Massachusetts. It’s not likely that there was any damage.
Florida is in the rare position of being able to say they have more snow than Massachusetts. In the recent s nowfall on Sunday into Monday, Boston received 5 inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service. Ashburnham and Holden, both in Central Massachusetts, had reports of 7 inches and 7.5 inches of snow.
Massachusetts could see several inches of snow this weekend from a weather system passing over the region on Sunday night, according to the latest forecast from the National Weather Service's Boston office.
Cape Cod is expected to see at most two inches of snow. The outer cape is expected to see the most snowfall, while Hyannis is forecasted to recieve less than an inch. Most of the state is currently forecast to see one to two inches of snow, while the western part of the state could see higher totals.