11:00pm

Hi all!

This blog will be short, because I don’t need to go over the technical aspects of the upcoming storm. My reasoning has not changed, so it would just be a re-run. 😉

I’ll just get to the time frame and the snow amounts, and here it is…

Snow starts in Boston between 6pm & 9pm, a bit earlier to the south, later to the north. The reason for the 3  hour window of start time is that the air above us will be very dry and it will take some time for the snow, which will be falling above us for several hours, to stop evaporating into the dry air and start reaching the ground. The heaviest snow will occur sometime between midnight & 6am Thursday. After this we should see a rapid ending to the snow from southwest to northeast during the morning commute Thursday.

Snow amounts should be 2-5 inches from southern NH southward to the northern part of the 128 belt (just north of Boston), and 5-9 inches from Boston southward into Plymouth County. I still think that amounts of 8 or 9 inches will not be that common, but are certainly possible, in those areas. Further south, except 4-7 inches near the Cape Cod Canal and dropping off to 2-4 inches over the Cape except 1-3 inches on the outer Cape, which will mix with and probably change to rain for a time for the first half of the precipitation event.

Another blog will be posted in a while with an outlook for the last 5 days of January. This includes a snow threat Saturday and a potentially very cold Monday.