Excessive potential for impactful nor’easter Sunday night time, Monday – Boston Information, Climate, Sports activities
Completely happy Friday! We’ve bought a wintry mess on the market that may proceed in a single day, nevertheless we’re monitoring our most impactful snowstorm Sunday night time into Monday.
Most of tonight’s snow/sleet accumulation will finish by Saturday morning. Nonetheless, we now have possibilities for extra spotty mild snow accumulation all through the day on Saturday.
Saturday, extra snow showers with highs within the low 30s and lows within the higher 20s.
Sunday might be quiet in the course of the daytime hours. Cloudy skies with a chilly morning within the teenagers and highs into the mid 30s.
It’s late Sunday night time into Monday morning that we’ll see our nor’easter. There’s quite a bit to unpack right here to let’s start with the snow. First, this whole occasion might be solely snow, not a mixture for some like we noticed in the present day.
Snow possibilities start late Sunday night time and linger a lot of the day on Monday, all the way in which into the early night hours. Meaning each of the commutes on Monday might be considerably impacted by snow falling and on the bottom. Tuesday morning’s commute might be powerful on unplowed secondary roads.
Since it is a coastal storm, the nearer you’re to the middle of the storm, the upper your totals, so southeastern Massachusetts and the Cape/islands will see probably the most snow from this. That’s the place we now have the best probability of seeing a foot of snow by Monday night. The remainder of us will see much less snowfall, however nonetheless impactful and plowable.
There’s additionally a wind part with this storm.
Inland, winds on Monday will gust to 30-40 mph, however on the Cape and islands winds may gust as excessive as 60 mph.
Since that is an onshore wind, that additionally brings some considerations for coastal flooding. The Nationwide Climate Service in Boston has already issued a coastal flood look ahead to the Monday and Tuesday early morning excessive tides. That’s for minor to average coastal flooding as deep as 1 to three toes.
Monday morning’s early excessive tide for Boston, Scituate and Sandwich is round 3 a.m.
For Barnstable, Chatham and Nantucket it’s between 3 and 4 a.m.
The storm will wind down by Monday night time. Tuesday might be snow clean-up day with partly sunny skies and highs within the low 30s. We’ve got extra possibilities for a wintry combine Wednesday via Friday. Keep tuned!
