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DAYS 1-5 (JANUARY 22-26)
A cold front drops through southern New England from north to south this morning and brings a northeast wind flow from the Maritimes of Canada. This will turn the air chilly and damp and may result in spotty drizzle and even a few snow flakes. Not expecting all that much precipitation through the early hours of Monday, however. It will take until the middle of the day Monday for precipitation from a broad and fairly strong storm system moving to the Mid Atlantic Coast via the Tennessee Valley to reach southern New England. It will do so in the form of snow/sleet in parts of northern and central MA as well as southern NH with rain/sleet elsewhere. Eventually, rain will overtake the entire region through there may be some icing in areas of north central MA and southwestern NH where colder air is trapped at the surface. Not expecting this to be a widespread problem, however. The heaviest push of precipitation will be rain throughout the region Monday evening, but other waves of rain will occur into Tuesday as the low pressure center wobbles its way just south of New England. Finally, it’ll have pulled away Wednesday with dry weather, and a much weaker low pressure area will pass north of the region Thursday bringing no more than a few rain showers.
TODAY: Cloudy. Areas of fog especially CT, RI, and southern MA. Areas of drizzle and a few snow flurries mainly northern MA and southern NH. Highs 40-48 in the morning, cooling slowly in the afternoon. Wind light variable shifting to NE 5-15 MPH.
TONIGHT: Cloudy. Areas of drizzle and patchy fog. Some freezing drizzle possible north central MA and southwestern NH. Lows 31-39. Wind NE to N 5-15 MPH.
MONDAY: Overcast. Rain mixed with sleet at times developing south to north mainly afternoon but some snow/sleet north central MA and southern NH to start with minor accumulation, then rain most areas afternoon except possible freezing rain in a few pockets north central MA and southwestern NH for a while before plain rain. Highs 35-43. Wind NE to E increasing to 15-25 MPH, gusts 35-50 MPH by late in the day especially coastal MA/RI.
MONDAY NIGHT: Overcast. Rain, heavy at times. Temperatures steady 35-43. Wind NE 15-35 MPH, gusts 45-60 MPH, strongest along the coast.
TUESDAY: Overcast. Rain likely, becoming more intermittent but with drizzle continuing later in the day. Patchy fog. Highs 39-47. Wind NE to N 15-25 MPH with higher gusts.
WEDNESDAY: Partly cloudy. Lows 32-40. Highs 40-48.
THURSDAY: Variably cloudy. Chance of rain showers. Lows 35-42. Highs 45-52.
DAYS 6-10 (JANUARY 27-31)
Fair, colder January 27. Risk of snow/mix at some point over the weekend of January 28-29. Mainly fair January 30-31.
DAYS 11-15 (FEBRUARY 1-5)
Rain/mix possible early period then mainly dry weather. Temperatures return to a more seasonable cold.