Sunday February 6 2022 Forecast (8:35AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (FEBRUARY 6-10)

Our regional frozen tundra impression continues with a very cold morning under a mostly clear sky (except a few areas). Saturday’s gusty breeze has settled to a lighter breeze overnight, which allowed some decent radiation of whatever “heat” we had right out into space, and this morning’s 8 a.m. temperatures are just starting to recover from slightly colder lows but still sit in the single digits to lower teens above zero, a bit milder over the immediate South Shore of MA, Cape Cod, and even the tip of Cape Ann as a batch of ocean clouds and even some light snow showers have been over those areas. These clouds and snow showers will eventually push offshore today as the wind shifts more to the west, but remains fairly light, so we’ll have another cold but more tranquil day today. We’ll see some patchy clouds mainly through midday moving across northern MA and southern NH in response to a weak disturbance passing north of the region, as high pressure controls but with its center well to our south. This high pressure area will shift eastward off of the Middle Atlantic Coast tonight and early Monday, and we’ll immediately begin to feel the impact from approaching low pressure from the southwest. While this low center seems destined to take most of its impact (heaviest precipitation and strongest wind) to the south and east of New England, an inverted trough of low pressure to its north will allow precipitation to work into our region during Monday and Monday night, probably in the form of rain for many areas as the air will have warmed both at the surface and aloft, but it should be cold enough to support at least some snow with possible accumulation in the higher elevations of north central MA and southwestern NH. As the low pressure area starts to move away from the region Tuesday, colder air coming in may try to turn any rain to a mix or even brief snow before it ends, but by then the system will be pretty much a done deal so I’m not expecting much wintry precipitation impact closer to the coastline. High pressure builds in with fair and seasonably chilly weather Wednesday. Low pressure passing north of our region across eastern Canada on Thursday will send a trough and cold front through the region from west to east with some clouds and perhaps a few showers of snow and/or mixed precipitation.

TODAY: Morning clouds and a few light snow showers Cape Ann, South Shore of MA, and Cape Cod, and a few additional clouds moving across northern MA and southern NH, then generally sunny from midday on. Highs 23-30. Wind N up to 10 MPH shifting to W.

TONIGHT: Clear early, then clouding up. Lows 12-19. Wind S up to 10 MPH.

MONDAY: Mainly cloudy. Periods of rain/mix/snow arriving, mostly snow higher elevations of north central MA and southwestern NH and may start as snow/mix other areas before going to rain. Highs 33-40. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.

MONDAY NIGHT: Cloudy with periods of rain except snow/mix higher elevations of southwestern NH and north central MA. Snow accumulation of up to 1/2 inch in the I-95 belt from the MA/NH border to near I-90, out to near I-495, and 1/2 to 2 inches northwest of I-495 and north of I-84 / I-90 with highest amounts for highest elevations. Lows 30-37. Wind N 5-15 MPH.

TUESDAY: Mostly cloudy morning with snow/mix ending early interior higher elevations and rain possibly ending as mix by late morning coast. Variably cloudy midday-afternoon. Highs 35-42 Wind NW 5-15 MPH, gusty.

TUESDAY NIGHT: Clearing. Lows 18-25. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.

WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 35-42. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 22-29. Wind W 5-15 MPH.

THURSDAY: Variably cloudy. Chance of a few snow/mix showers. Highs 33-40. Wind W 10-20 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (FEBRUARY 11-15)

February 12 and February 14 are the days to watch for unsettled weather. Overall pattern is on the quiet side with variable temperatures.

DAYS 11-15 (FEBRUARY 16-20)

Seasonable to slightly milder than normal temperatures with a fairly quiet weather pattern expected.

49 thoughts on “Sunday February 6 2022 Forecast (8:35AM)”

  4. A batch of light snow is lurking just off shore and appears to be moving due West. shows up nicely on radar

  5. Ocean temps still around 42 degrees. Ocean temps will probably go down a few more degrees. Not as cold as 2015 though.

    1. I’m certainly not TK, but at this point I doubt the temps go much under 40. Our ocean doesn’t cool down as low as in the past anymore. It’s not called “climate change” for nothing.

  6. Thanks TK.

    On February 14 I have a medical appointment right after work. Hope it won’t get cancelled if frozen precip will be falling.

  8. That westerly air flow is beginning to overtake things and will push that little marine cloud & snow shower batch off to the east now, or basically just cut into it from west to east.

    Anyone in the Boston area notice that the Everett Power Plant Cloud was pretty dramatic this morning? 🙂

  9. Thank you, TK.

    Man, this was an absolute gem of a winter weekend. Gloriously crisp, the ground frozen, the dormancy of plant and animal life as it should be.

    By the way, there was more snow on the ground in the Attleboro MA and Providence RI area, evidently from snow that fell Friday night. They also had this rather incredible phenomenon in which ice drops formed `lights’ in many trees. It’s hard to describe this spectacle. I didn’t see as much of it in the Boston area.

    What has made the recent period more remarkable is that everyone one in New England has gotten a piece of the winter action, even the normally temperate Cape Cod and the Islands. In fact, it’s been snowing off off and on on the Cape. Didn’t get to see it in person, but have been seeing some beautiful pictures from Cape Cod posted on Twitter and elsewhere. What a winter season the Cape has had.

    As a Dutch friend of mine said over the phone when I described our weather – I’m translating from Dutch – “real winter, unlike the gray nothingness and constant wind we have here.” Turns out they had yet another wind storm (with some light rain). The Dutch then do some odd things like have an “against the wind” bike race. And, we’re talking biking into moderate to severe gale force winds at the coast at times.

    1. I love this kind of weather too. I have a sled hill I visit and the conditions are perfect. Hard packed, frozen snow/sleet layer.

      I made a couple videos yesterday that are getting a lot of FB views. I’m going back to make a couple more today. 😉

        1. I was hauling….. Down a double hill that covers about 50 yards out to a flat that’s about 75 more yards and I made it all the way across and actually had to spin my sled to avoid going into the woods. And I got it on video … once from the top of the hill and once from on board the sled. 😉

  10. Just got 5.9 inches of rain here on St. Thomas last night. Temperatures in the mid-70s been cloudy the last two days.

  12. Thanks, TK

    Remembering the Blizzard of 1978.

    Flipping through my photos and newspaper articles.
    Enjoyed your photos that you shared, TK

    The Blizzard remains, not only my number one all-time weather event, but one of my top life events.

  13. Walked Good Harbor beach early this AM. I think the temp was about 8-9 F. Four layers, a hoodie, hat, mask, and gloves … still too cold!! But it seems as if it could hit 40 everyday this week.

  15. Do you still think most of the storm tomorrow misses us? How much rain do you see in metro west? Looked like radar had heaviest stuff on cape. Thanks.

  16. Thanks TK.

    We made the trip to Killington yesterday and it was a great day. Busy as expected but the conditions were great with 17″ of fresh snow. I took a few pictures:

    From the Catwalk trail near the summit (looking at Pico Mountain):
    https://imgur.com/zCgO0PG

    Devil’s Fiddle trail at Bear Mountain:
    https://imgur.com/WauNl15

    From the top of Double Dipper in the Canyon area:
    https://imgur.com/SgnfBph

    From Royal Flush (looking back at Double Dipper and the Canyon where the last picture was taken…that trail is STEEP!)
    https://imgur.com/P40OnsF

    Nice to see conditions finally improving up there!

    1. I should add that there was MAJOR icing that we passed through in southern VT on the way there. Lots of trees hunched over on the side of I-91 and some branches snapped. The southern VT ski areas, unlike Killington and points north, got screwed with a major icing event. Mount Snow, Stratton and Bromley were still deicing and trying to get lifts open today. Bromley instagram said the ice accumulated on the lifts was several inches thick.

      2. My brother in Bow NH was not able to visit the hospital for a second day in a week. I know it sounds odd, but I believe he needed a couple of days to just relax.

  18. This “frozen tundra” effect doesn’t happen often here in SNE. I imagine the upper Midwest and Great Plains this occurs every winter almost daily regardless of the overall pattern.

    My mind always goes to the Green Bay Packers on days like this. Would not want to see a football game in this weather for sure, not even the Patriots.

    1. Thanks for sharing Joshua. I assumed that Japan only had snow in their mountainous areas. I do wish that more of the world would get away from the metric system. Just from observation, I will approximate 2-3+feet snow depth?

  21. Philip, the world outside the U.S. embraces the metric system – as does the scientific community – because of its simplicity and logic. I do understand that for us the metric system – or even Celsius – is foreign-sounding. Believe me, you do have to get used to it. For example, hearing the weather person in Holland in July say “it’s going to be a hot one, it’ll get to 32 degrees tomorrow” took some getting used to, however logical the Celsius system is. But once you’re familiar with it and know that easy to remember numbers on the scale, like 0 and 100, actually have important meaning, you begin to like it. I especially like the metric system. You’ll notice that if you try and explain inches, feet, yards, miles, ounces, pints, and quart, to a foreigner it’s harder than having the metric system explained to an American.

    1. I participate in an online woodworking forum. Whenever someone brings up metric measurements, I know that I am in for a fun time!

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