WEATHER UPDATE: Central MA Could See 6-12 Inches of Snow

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

John Ghiorse, GoLocalWorcester Meteorologist

OK, vacation’s over. National Weather Service Winter Strom Watches have been posted. It’s been nearly two weeks since our last threat of heavy snow and nearly a month since the February block-buster. After that lengthy hiatus, it looks like another big storm will be developing along the East Coast during the next 24 hours. It should affect the Washington, D.C./Philadelphia area early Wednesday and then turn its northern fringe on us from later tomorrow into early Friday.

It looks like a typical March mess with some spots getting heavy, wet snow, some seeing snow and rain mixed and others, especially on Cape Cod, heavy wind-driven rain. Everyone should experience strong, gusty winds with attendant power outage potential. Coastal areas should watch out for flooding, heavy surf and, of course, beach erosion.

Details, as usual, are hard to pinpoint right now but heavy, wet snow is likely from the Worcester area south and east toward Boston and Providence. Accumulations could be in the 6”-12” range. Lesser amounts should accumulate over extreme southeastern Massachusetts and Southern Rhode Island as rain and sleet get into the mix. Any shift of the storm track farther south and east would pull the heavy snow line in that direction as well. Likewise a track closer to the coast would push the rain/sleet mix north and west. Northeast winds will howl 25-50mph with higher gusts.

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WEATHER UPDATE: Central MA Could See 6-12 Inches of Snow

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