Wednesday January 20 2021 Forecast (7:32AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (JANUARY 20-24)

A disturbance moves through the region today with lots of clouds and some snow showers as the air continues to trend colder. The best chance of snow showers will be south and west of Boston where a small accumulation may occur. This energy will ignite an ocean storm south and east of New England which will pull even colder air in tonight. A broad low pressure area will track north of the region Thursday and Friday pushing a warm front through the region Thursday followed by a cold front on Friday. A tiny bit of light snow may occur with the warn front but most of the energy and moisture for that will pass to our north, and then the cold front may be good for a rain or snow shower Friday as it turns briefly milder between the two fronts. Once the cold front is through, it’s dry and windy for the coming weekend along with the coldest air we’ve had for quite some time.

TODAY: Mostly cloudy. Snow showers, favoring areas south and west of Boston where a coating to 1/2 inch may accumulate. Highs 33-40. Wind W 5-15 MPH shifting to NW 10-20 MPH and gusty.

TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 18-25. Wind NW 10-20 MPH evening, diminishing overnight.

THURSDAY: Mostly cloudy morning with brief very light snow possible northern MA and southern NH. Partly sunny afternoon. Highs 33-40. Wind SW 5-15 MPH, gusts 20-25 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 25-32. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.

FRIDAY: Partly sunny. A passing rain or snow shower possible, mainly afternoon and west and north of Boston. Highs 37-44. Wind SW 10-20 MPH and gusty, shifting to NW late in the day.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy with a chance of a snow shower evening. Clearing overnight. Lows 18-25. Wind NW 10-20 MPH with higher gusts.

SATURDAY: Sun and passing clouds. Highs 27-34. Wind NNW 10-20 MPH with higher gusts.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Clear. Lows 10-17. Wind N 5-15 MPH.

SUNDAY: Sunny. Highs 25-32. Wind N 10-20 MPH with higher gusts.

DAYS 6-10 (JANUARY 25-29)

While there is some uncertainty remaining regarding the passage of a storm system in the late January 25 to early January 27 time frame, odds favor this system passing far enough south for little or even no impact, with generally cold and dry weather being dominant throughout this period.

DAYS 11-15 (JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 3)

The pattern seems stubborn to watch to change much, and while there is another “window-of-opportunity” around January 30-31 where we need to watch for a possible storm system, again odds favor more dry weather to dominate as we go from January to early February, perhaps with a temperature moderation getting underway.

38 thoughts on “Wednesday January 20 2021 Forecast (7:32AM)”

  1. Good morning and thank you TK.
    Snow prospects looking pretty dim.
    Oh, well not much we can do about it.

    1. Where? ha ha ha

      Even at Fairbanks, AK 64.8378° N
      Forecast high for tomorrow is 20.

      so where the bleep is this -45???

      Verkhoyansk (Siberia in case you didn’t know)

      Verkhoyansk, Sakha Republic, Russia
      Thursday 12:00 AM
      Cloudy
      -36

      Thu
      Cloudy
      -35°-37°
      Fri
      Partly cloudy
      -32°-50°
      Sat
      Partly cloudy
      -46°-47°
      Sun
      Partly cloudy
      -44°-46°
      Mon
      Mostly cloudy
      -42°-47°
      Tue
      Partly cloudy
      -44°-50°
      Wed
      Partly cloudy
      -47°-49°
      Thu
      Partly cloudy
      -45°-48°

  9. Thanks, TK…

    Snowing at a nice clip here in Middleborough.
    Just starting to stick in a few places.

    1. It’s onto the Euro! Care to guess which way it will go?

      2 out of 3 say some snow. 🙂

      Will is be a split ticket? or 3 out of 4??

  16. Mother Nature providing some confetti at the inauguration with snow flakes prior to President Biden being sworn in.

  18. Thanks TK. It was nice to wake up to a white landscape this AM.

    We are heading up to Jay Peak tomorrow for a long weekend where they have now received THREE FEET of snow in the last five days. Its snowing again there today and they are expecting another 6″+ by Saturday AM. To say I am excited is an understatement! Just hoping the winds don’t kick up too badly there on Sat and Sun. It’s looking blustery and Jay is notorious for wind holds on their chairlifts. Friday at least should be an epic powder day and not too chilly.

  19. As I have been noting, it’s pure, deep winter up in NNE right now. This has been the best snow week of the winter up there following the storm Saturday and nearly constant upslope snow since. Pretty much every ski area in the Greens has received 2-3 feet of snow since Sat AM.

    Here are a couple pictures courtesy of some posters on the AmericanWx blog….

    Bretton Woods, NH 3 hours ago:

    https://www.americanwx.com/bb/uploads/monthly_2021_01/0A330EBB-F31E-4904-9B56-84B6009FEC97.jpeg.8193aad684c3a4501d0cf979a94d2787.jpeg

    Near Hermit Lake shelters at the base of Tuckermans:

    https://www.americanwx.com/bb/uploads/monthly_2021_01/hermit_2.jpg.28cb61ded827ee6d97aa255ff5523be7.jpg

    Skiing the woods near Stowe:

    https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/140565294_10104429584059900_2184312507295608334_o.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=2&_nc_sid=b9115d&_nc_ohc=Ni_teAfjESkAX_luZ8i&_nc_oc=AQmryTlmIbKgbPvWsAtm3-5Cny8eOGpriO_-81p0MFJPf0XdSwgXu_A6fUTtOHtdsCw&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=6070c20b383abc19db342683005aa22c&oe=602E469D

    Ski trail at Bretton Woods with the Presidentials in the background:

    https://www.americanwx.com/bb/uploads/monthly_2021_01/IMG_9406.jpeg.3fb53b4a44da5cd090bdb65f337cbe77.jpeg

    We can live vicariously through them!

  20. A little flaky here in Woburn at the moment. Popcorn snow showers all over the place. Some of them are heavier. A couple friends report squalls down near the South Coast. Instability was greatest to the south today anyway – so that makes sense. 🙂

    2. He actually backed off today, not discounting it, but indicating that the leaning was for it to be more of a miss.

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