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Snow Expected to Start Saturday Evening in Worcester

By TWIW Staff | January 17, 2020
Last Updated: February 3, 2021

WORCESTER – An area of low pressure is expected to move into the eastern Great Lakes by Saturday afternoon. Meanwhile, a second low pressure will take shape near the Cape on Saturday night and move into the Gulf of Maine and towards Nova Scotia on Sunday.

The atmosphere on Saturday afternoon and Saturday night is expected to be more than cold enough to support all-snow across Central Mass, especially at the beginning of the storm.

Snow will overspread Central Mass between about 3 PM and 5 PM Saturday.

A majority of the accumulating snow with this storm is expected to occur between 6 PM and midnight Saturday evening with heavy snowfall rates of 1 inch per hour possible at times during this time period (6 PM to midnight Saturday evening).

After midnight Saturday night, the snow will lighten up considerably in intensity with periods of light snow expected. In fact, some freezing drizzle is also expected at times after midnight Saturday night.

The storm will come to an end just before sunrise Sunday morning.

It should be emphasized that given the cold temperatures and the expected moderate to heavy snowfall rates, the snow will have little difficulty sticking and accumulating on roads. This means that roads will very quickly become slippery once the snow begins during the mid and late afternoon hours of Saturday.

In addition, poor travel conditions are expected between 6 pm and midnight Saturday evening due to heavy snowfall rates causing poor visibility and very slippery road conditions.

My forecast snowfall amounts can be found with the map below.

 

January 17, 2020 rob lightbown
Forecast of Weekend Snow Accumulations in Central Mass./Route20Weather.com

 

For more details on this forecast, please visit Route20Weather.com.


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