Winter Storm Warnings are in effect for today

Alan Dunham, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said Worcester and Boston were added to the winter storm watch, which at first predicted snow only for the southeastern part of MA only.

Because the snow squalls were expected to hit and miss, some people might see only flurries while others could see a brief snow burst of a half an inch in 15 minutes, according to the National Weather Service.

Early Saturday, utility Eversource reported about 20,000 outages in Connecticut, National Grid reported about 21,000 customers without electricity in Rhode Island and the two major utilities in MA reported about 80,000 combined. This cold front is then expected to push off the East Coast by Monday night or Tuesday morning. Even some locally higher amounts will be possible for the area, dependent on where some ocean-enhanced snow bands form.

Monday night will fall into the low to upper 20s with snow lingering along the Tennessee border. A storm that far way won’t bring its full impact, however, the western edge of the storm is close enough to provide the region with strong winds and snow.

“We don’t see a large snowstorm coming together, but we are expecting accumulating snow at times this week”, said Patrick Burke of the U.S. Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland. A winter weather advisory is still in affect for the valley regions, which include Bristol, Kingsport, Johnson City, Gate City, Elizabethton, Abingdon and Wise County. Another system off the coast will also butt heads with the winter storm, creating some additional coastal flooding for an already vulnerable DE coastline.

Snow is still on the way for Monday into Tuesday.

Notice the shape/orientation of the snow showers on the Futurecast map below and if you closely at the snowfall total map – they nearly match up. Right now, we don’t think we will receive as much snow as Winter Storm Barbara, and the weight of the snow will be lighter.

South of Boston, where the wind and snow will be more intense, visibility could lower under a quarter mild due to the snow and wind.

Parts of New Jersey saw about 4 inches before the snow tapered off, while rain that turned to snow snarled the morning commute in eastern Pennsylvania and caused some schools to delay opening. This pattern of unsettled weather will continue much of this week along with increasingly colder air by the weekend.