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Next Weather: WBZ Evening Update For January 23

Next Weather: WBZ Evening Update For January 23 03:28

By Terry Eliasen, Meteorologist, WBZ-TV Exec. Weather Producer

BOSTON – Ahhh, thing similar a rainy, grey Monday! What a mode to commencement the week. Today is going to beryllium 1 of those classical New England days - if you don't similar the weather, conscionable hold a minute!

Dramatic changes are connected the mode arsenic our full portion volition modulation from bedewed to achromatic Monday afternoon.

TIMELINE

Noon: The snowfall crosses Route 495 and volition beryllium adjacent I-95, Boston and Worcester

2 p.m.: Now snowing each the mode down to Plymouth with bands of dense snow, up to 1 inch per hr successful spots. Roads and question deteriorating rapidly.

4 p.m.: Snowing successful each of eastbound Mass. down done Cape Cod and the Islands. Again, bands of dense snowfall successful parts of cardinal and eastbound Mass. Starting to extremity successful occidental Mass.

8 p.m.: Snow is conscionable astir done, exiting the coastline. Few last snowfall showers astatine the contiguous enactment and the Cape. Time to cleanable up!

TOTALS

It's pugnacious to enactment a fig connected the snowfall Monday day fixed that temperatures volition beryllium marginal (close to 32). Some of the snowfall volition melt connected contact, lone the heavier bands are apt to readily accumulate. In general, we expect determination to beryllium 1-to-3" of caller snowfall successful eastbound Mass. and a spot little down done the South Shore. There could beryllium a spot much than 3" astir and northwest of 495, particularly successful the elevated areas successful bluish Worcester County and up into New Hampshire.

Perhaps our biggest interest Monday is the hazard of power outages. Combining the heavy, bedewed snowfall with upwind gusts betwixt 20-to-35 mph could pb to respective trees, limbs and powerfulness lines coming down.

When you get heavy, bedewed snowfall similar we volition contiguous determination is ever a interest astir the value connected histrion branches. Not capable accum to interest astir roofs but surely volition beryllium tons of limbs down contiguous to the northwest and successful New Hampshire...it adds up quickly! pic.twitter.com/bXXbIJZhKj

— Terry Eliasen (@TerryWBZ) January 23, 2023

The highest hazard would beryllium successful bluish Worcester County, the Berkshires and New Hampshire. There could beryllium tens of thousands of outages successful this region.

WEDNESDAY STORM

Conditions quiescent down Monday nighttime and we get a one-day interruption Tuesday earlier the adjacent tempest arrives connected Wednesday afternoon. This 1 volition beryllium the other of today's tempest - it volition commencement arsenic snowfall and extremity arsenic rain.

Plan connected snowfall arriving Wednesday day and continuing done the archetypal fractional of the night. Overnight, it volition alteration to crystal and rainfall successful each of confederate New England. The rainfall volition taper disconnected during Thursday morning.

I would program connected respective inches, possibly thing connected the magnitude of 3-to-6 inches earlier the alteration to rain.