Another messy storm coming...

Another slow moving low pressure system will affect New England for an extended period of time over the next few days.

Today:  Increasing clouds, cooler than yesterday, highs in the mid and upper 30s south, low 30s north.

Tonight:  Snow develops in Western Northern New England, slight chance of snow in Southern New England, otherwise cloudy, lows upper 20s to near 30 south, teens and low 20s north.  2-4 inches possible in North Central VT.

Tomorrow:  Chance of a rain/snow mix in Southern New England, snow possible in Central and Northern New England.  Accumulations of 4-8 inches in VT and Northern NH.  Highs low 40s south, 30s north.

Tomorrow night:  Steadier precipitation develops, rain south, staying snow north of Laconia, NH, lows in the mid and upper 30s south, upper 20s to low 30s north.  Additional light accumulations possible.

Friday:  Rain, heavy at times, places that were snow should change over to rain.  Highs 50s south, 40s north.

Discussion:

Clouds are already making their way into New England today ahead of a low pressure system that will affect our weather for Thursday through Friday night.  This center of the low pressure system will dive down to West Virginia tomorrow morning and then start moving into the Eastern Great Lakes.  This motion will keep the majority of the preciptation away from New England until Thursday night.  However, the leading edge of the rain and snow will begin to affect Western New England, particularly VT starting tonight and continuing tomorrow.  Eastern New England won't really see much precipitation until Thursday night as the system won't be making an eastward push until then.

There will be some significant snow occurring in parts of the region, I've tried to highlight this in the forecast periods above.  Accumulating snow will be restricted to VT and Northern New Hampshire for the most part.  As the storm gets closer on Thursday night, warmer air will begin to over run the region and by Friday mid-morning, all locations should change over to rain.  Flooding will once again be a concern as the rain is expected to be heavy at times.  Still some question as to where the most rain will fall, should have more info on this tomorrow.  Regardless, adding another inch or so of rain to already swollen rivers and additional melting, rivers will rise again.

The low pressure system will move to the northeast on Saturday and we should see clearing skies and slightly cooler temperatures.  I don't expect they will drop off too far, but highs will be back to the 30s and 40s through the weekend and into early next week.  Late next week looks like it could be absolutely wonderful.  High pressure builds in and we'll have a few days of southwesterly winds, 70 degrees may be a distinct possibility, time will tell.

Thanks for reading!

-Jon K.