DAYS 1-5 (JANUARY 6-10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A parade of low pressure systems will impact our weather in the days ahead. One is just departing after having delivered a general coating of light snow last night. The departure of this system reinforces cold air and sets our region up for an inland icing issue for the next system, which arrives later this evening. While it warms aloft so that rain falls – maybe a little sleet\/snow mix to the north at first, the surface will stay cold enough away from the coast so that the rain will freeze on contact with surfaces, creating a hazard for walking or driving on untreated surfaces into Wednesday morning before it finally warms just enough to eliminate the icing. The low responsible for this is not a strong one, and will attempt to pass just to our north only to elongate and redevelop just to our east. This prevents a more significant warm-up, so when colder air comes back in behind it, any untreated surfaces that are wet can ice up again at night as it clears. High pressure builds in with a one-day break for fair weather during Thursday. Friday, the next low pressure system takes a little different track, heading northeastward for the St. Lawrence Valley, passing to our north and pulling milder air into our region. What starts out as a fair weather day (maybe with a nice sunrise) turns cloudy, breezy, and milder with eventual rain showers arriving. As low pressure moves eastward, it will drag a cold front through the region and a bubble of high pressure will move across southeastern Canada. Meanwhile the next storm system, this one a little bit stronger, will move into the Great Lakes by Saturday. The front that went by later Friday will sit to our south as moisture associated with the Great Lakes low moves into our region, likely as a chilly rainfall Saturday afternoon. Currently, while it’s cooler than Friday, I think it will remain sufficiently mild enough to prevent icing on Saturday, but it is something we’ll have to keep an eye on for northern \/ interior areas of the WHW region, as it wouldn’t take much of a slightly colder scenario to result in at least a brief icing issue. Where it’s “day 5”, there isn’t more to say at this point, but just something to monitor as we get closer to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TODAY: Mostly cloudy. Highs 31-38. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TONIGHT: Cloudy. Late evening and overnight light rain and inland (I-95 belt westward) freezing rain likely. Lows 27-34 evening, then a slow overnight rise. Wind variable to S up to 10 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WEDNESDAY: Cloudy morning with occasional rain, which can still be freezing rain early in the day in north central MA and southern NH away from the coast. Clouds break for sun at times afternoon with a passing rain shower possible. Highs 37-44. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Clearing. Watch for icy spots on untreated surfaces. Lows 20-27. Wind W 5-15 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
THURSDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 35-43. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
THURSDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 23-30. Wind variable to S up to 10 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FRIDAY: Increasing clouds. Late-day rain showers. Highs 43-50. Wind S to SW 5-15 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FRIDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Evening rain showers. Patchy fog overnight. Lows 33-40. Wind shifting to N and diminishing to under 10 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SATURDAY: Cloudy. Afternoon rain likely. Highs 40-47. Wind N shifting to E up to 10 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DAYS 6-10 (JANUARY 11-15)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wet weather lingers into early January 11 before low pressure departs and a colder, drier westerly wind arrives. High pressure brings an interlude of dry, colder weather before unsettled weather chances return later in the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DAYS 11-15 (JANUARY 16-20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trend is to have a battle zone between cold to north and milder to south nearby with additional unsettled weather chances, but far too soon to pick out any detail in this potential pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DAYS 1-5 (JANUARY 6-10) A parade of low pressure systems will impact our weather in the days ahead. One is just departing after having delivered a general coating of light snow last night. The departure of this system reinforces cold air and sets our region up for an inland icing issue for the next system, … Continue reading Tuesday January 6 2026 Forecast (7:05AM)<\/span>