DAYS 1-5 (JANUARY 1-5)
Happy 2026! The first day of the year will start with some additional snowflakes in the area, the first batch having moved in last night and dropped a coating to a couple inches (least to the north, most to the south). Other than Cape Cod, that’s mostly off to the east now at dawn, but a band of snow showers, some moderate to heavy, is moving eastward through the region, and while it’s fairly narrow, it can reduce visibility significantly for anybody traveling early to mid morning from west to east across the region. This will be followed by a slow clearing trend and falling temperatures from west to east today. Cold and dry weather with a west to northwest air flow will then dominate our weather Friday into the weekend. On Sunday, low pressure will pass well south of our region, and a smaller disturbance moving along to its north can bring our region a few snow flurries. Another northern stream disturbance will approach our area later Monday with clouds moving in and the potential for some light snow later on.
TODAY (NEW YEAR’S DAY): Cloudy start with light snow exiting southeastern MA early, and a band of snow showers, some moderate to heavy, moving west to east across the region early to mid morning with additional accumulation of up to but mostly under 1/2 inch. Clearing / increasing sun west to east after. Highs 25-32 morning, falling slowly afternoon. Wind W to NW increasing to 10-20 MPH, gusty late-day.
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 11-18. Wind NW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.
FRIDAY: Partly cloudy. Highs 22-29. Wind NW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.
FRIDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 11-18. Wind W 5-15 MPH.
SATURDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 25-32. Wind W 5-15 MPH.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 11-18. Wind NW up to 10 MPH.
SUNDAY: Sun / cloud mix. Chance of a snow flurry. Highs 24-31. Wind W up to 10 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Clearing. Lows 12-29. Wind NW up to 10 MPH.
MONDAY: Increasing clouds. Chance of light snow late. Highs 26-33. Wind W 5-15 MPH.
DAYS 6-10 (JANUARY 6-10)
Unsettled weather potentials January 6, 7, and late January 9-10. Light mix / snow favored for first episodes and mix / rain favored later in the period. No major storminess indicated. Temperatures somewhat variable but mostly near normal.
DAYS 11-15 (JANUARY 11-15)
Variable temperatures averaging around normal. While the pattern looks a little more active for precipitation, there are still no strong indications of major storminess.
Thanks TK. Happy New Year All! Getting ready for the snow squall arrival shortly.
Thank you!!
Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year! 🙂
And thanks tk
Good morning and thank you TK.
Happy New Year!
Snow just beginning here again.
Up to this point, perhaps 1/2 inch or so.
Radar
https://radar.weather.gov/station/KBOX/standard
Northern part of squall line seems wider. How much more snow?
Thanks TK.
Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year!
I’m starting the Wordle Year by running on the track trying to grab onto the railing at the back of the caboose after failing. 🙂
Sorry to hear. I’LL throw you a line as I am close to the caboose.
31 here after low of 25.
Ocean; 43
Did someone say Ocean would not be below 47 by New Years?
Wordle: 5. Made mistake. Should have been 4.
Waiting on a bunch of 3s today.
SNOWING pretty good here, BUT NOTHING worthy of the snow squall WARNING notification on my phone thatcwoke me up!! Also, Barely any wind, NONE of the 35 mph from the warning.
YET, anyway
It’s not going to be every piece of real estate, but they need to warn.
Just talked to someone south of you with a whiteout.
Thanks TK !
Happy New Year everyone !
I didn’t want to set the bar too high for myself in this new year, Wordle: 6
https://www.goes.noaa.gov/sector_band.php?sat=G19§or=ne&band=09&length=24
No wonder that’s a pretty intense squall for eastern New England.
IMPRESSIVE!!!
I mean the satellite loop.
🙂
Looks like worst of the snow is passing Just South of my area.
Figures.
https://weather.us/radar-us/massachusetts/reflectivity/KBOX.html#play-0-7-5
Credit: weather.us radar
I can hardly see the house behind me right now. This is an intense squall.
Lucky you. Not so here. Just happy it’s snowing again.
No change here. Robust light snow at times bordering on moderate. No
Heavy snow. NO wind.
But, additional accumulation.
It’s puking snow as you like to say!
That’s a Hadi saying
Maybe a holy crap Batman.
Yes, that one would be mine. 🙂
Thank you, TK.
Happy New Year to all at WHW!
It’s a beautiful snow squall in downtown Boston right now. While it isn’t heavy snow per se it’s as heavy I’ve seen the snow fall in quite some time.
I do want to add that TK was telling us several days ago about these snow squalls that would arrive this morning. One of many reasons for me to rely on TK’s forecasting (and explanations) rather than so many others.
Happy New Year
Wordle yet to bed determined. I have 3 letters after four guesses. Two in correct place. And absolutely no clue. I may set the lowest bar.
Thank you TK. 23 up from 20. Just called in our total so far. 3.5 on the dot in SE Sutton
Wow!!! Now that is impressive!!!
NOW IT is Heavy snow with plenty of wind!! Yay!!!!
Nice! Looks like we may get another thinner band shortly.
Yes, Just saw that on radar. Heading this way. I’ll wait before I clean up the snow. Broom Fest!
Thanks, TK. And a Happy New Year to you and everyone!
So far we have had only light snow, maybe an inch or so, but no wind or heavy snow – yet.
Finally got Wordle. I was determined not to start the year with a fail. JPD may I join you with a 5 please
Of course. I can’t believe that 5 is the engineer so far.
I am certain someone will get it in THREE!!!
Drove to Good Harbor Beach for my walk and watched the usual crowd of people who jump into the ocean on New Year’s Day including a person who thought the skinny dipping approach was okay.
Dogs jumping around up and down the beach. Everyone seemed happy! Had to walk ankle deep in the water to get over to the bridge to get back to my car.
Very light snow here.
Nice !
Was that the high tide you had to walk through?
Very correct!
I’d say we got about 1/2 an inch overnight and there’s a steady snow falling now.
No wind, yet.
And the SNOW begins yet again. 🙂
Thanks TK
Happy New Year everyone! I look forward to talking weather with all of you for another year. I woke up just in time for the snow squall to come around my area around 6am. It came down at a good clip for close to half an hour. Once the snow squall past the wind picked up and the temperature is falling.
Wind has arrived and the visibility crashed.
About a half mile, maybe even a bit less.
Thick, but very fine snow.
Kind of like this weather for a New Year’s Day! Fun to watch.
Here are my weather predictions for 2026! TK I look forward to reading yours as well as anyone else who make predictions. Will see on December 31st if any predictions were right.
Boston 6-inch snow drought will end between January 15th-25th with a 6–10-inch snowfall for SNE
Between February 1st – 10th there will be another 6–10-inch snowfall for SNE
After that winter goes on hiatus for the rest of the month
Winter returns in early March and between the 3rd -10th there will be a moderate snowfall of 4-8 inches
One more moderate snowfall of 4-8 inches will happen a few days prior to spring
Spring will go back and forth between cold days and mild days until early May. Patriots Day will have highs in the 60s and sunny skies which will be great for the runners
Between the 10th -20th of May will see the first 90 degree temperatures show up. Memorial Day will have temperatures in the upper 70s low 80s.
First heat wave of the season shows up in June just prior to summer. The heat wave will be broken by a widespread severe weather outbreak which will include 1-2 weak tornadoes
4th of July will be hot with low to mid 90s
For the summer 4-5 heat waves and 20-25 90 degree or higher days
Hurricane drought will continue
September will start off with a heat wave
Fall starts out warm and it won’t be until the middle of October when SNE starts to get into a stretch of cool crisp days
First flakes of the season around Thanksgiving
Will be dreaming of a White Christmas
First widespread snowfall happens in the closing days of 2026
I hope it all verifies.
Nice, good luck !
Thanks, TK!
Happy 2026 to all!
A pretty impressive squall has been passing through for the last 20 minutes or so.
Thanks Longshot and Tom. I will be happy if one prediction is right. I look forward to reading yours.
I have a feeling TK will get a couple of his predictions right for the year
I’ll post those later today. I’m working until 2:30. 🙂
2026 Predictions
Weak as it is, La Niña has been stubborn, actually returning in the autumn and currently ongoing. It’s forecast to go to neutral and then become a weak El Niño by summer.
I wonder if we are nearing the end years of the Tonga Volcano water vapor enhancement ??
With the exception of a break around Jan 7-Jan 15th, I think January will also have below average temps. February and March too. (Alaska and Canada are very very cold and it seems the cold is actually on our side of the hemisphere this year)
Later spring finally produces an average month of temps.
Summer will have avg temps with 12 (90F days) at Logan and 15-20 days inland. We’ll be on the periphery of a Midwest 500 mb ridge, so, we’ll have a derecho or 2 strike across the region, moving from NW to SE
We’re going to have a pattern change in late summer, early autumn, where the Bermuda high is dominant and we break the hurricane drought with not 1, but with 2 hurricanes, one into western New England and the other passing btwn Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
Chilly autumn leads to a very cold start to meteorological winter.
Overall, below avg temps for 2026 by 0.5-1F
Below avg precip by 1-3 inches for the year.
We’re in it now.
We’ve probably added close to an inch overall, if not, this will get us there and we’ll have a decent 1.5 inches on the ground.
Looking forward to it hanging around for 3-4 days.
As long as the roads are good, I like the snowy landscape of winter.
Thank you TK! Happy New Year to the WHW clan!
Wordle: 3
Nice Sue !!
And there it is!!!! Nice job!!!
Awesome Sue.
NY recorded 0.5 inches. What did BOS record?
NY now up to 7.7
BOS 4.3 before this system
Don’t have the number, but I am guessing 1.0,1.1,1.2,1.25,1.3
something like that. We shall see how close I am. 🙂
Happy New Year everyone!
TK thank you very much for another year of providing us with this excellent source of weather information, and a place where weather fanatics can all put their two cents in, whether wrong or right.
I was really impressed at the intensity of the squall that came through here around 7:00, that helped contribute to the solid 5” we received here in Sturbridge.
Happy New Year, Neighbor!!!
The Sturbridge snowfall amount made the news.
Just came in from cleaning up.
Did not even bother to measure, but sticking my hand into the snow, I would say 1 inch to 1 1/4 inch at best. That is all.
“About” 6 inches on the season here so far.
Do you see winds over 30 mph in metro west this afternoon? So far, it is easy to clean up.
Thanks.
The last part really fluffed up to 2-2.25 inches for the entire event.
Snow shut right off and it’s brightening quickly.
Thanks Tk & Happy New Year to everyone here ! Best guess is maybe 2 inches here
Maybe a bit more as Tom said above
About the same here in Taunton, SSK.
The second squall dropped about 1″ in about 20 minutes.
Prayers and best wishes to your wife, SSK, for a speedy recovery!
Thanks it’s going to be an extremely tough month coming up .
Did not see that Longshot thanks, I have not seen that intensity in quite a while, so much fun to watch, for a minute I thought I was in Buffalo. I’m surprised there was no lightning with that line.
26F
I see Boston got 0.7 from this system. NY got 0.5
Snowfall standings
NY 7.7
BOS 5.0
Thanks Jimmy. Hopefully Boston eventually surpasses NYC and then catch up to Worcester, at least enough to make them squirm. 🙂
JPD mentioned that a big squall was just south of him. Here in Quincy was the best squall I’ve seen in quite a while so maybe that was the one that hit here. Thanks JPD! ❄️ Sorry you didn’t get it.