Snow fell in the pre-dawn hours of Xmas Eve but will appear to an conclusion before noon as the sky clears and the sunlight returns. When all is reported and accomplished, a dusting to probably an inch of snow will be on the floor, more than enough to enable you know it is winter season but not adequate to result in any vacation difficulties. Temperatures this Friday afternoon will be in the 30s.
The temperature pattern ideal now is active but the activity is not automatically massive. Nonetheless, it doesn’t just take considerably in the way of frozen precipitation to cause problems on the roadways, and an instance of this is likely Xmas morning.
In my opinion, freezing rain is the worst kind of precipitation for traveling. Even a smaller glaze on the roadways gets rid of a lot of the friction essential to prevent your auto or be equipped to stroll easily.
I assume to see rain and freezing rain break out in the pre-dawn hours Saturday to the southwest of Boston and overspread the region about dawn, give or get an hour or two. As lengthy as roadways are dealt with we shouldn’t have too substantially of a issue on the principal highways, but secondary streets, driveways, walkways and the like have the opportunity to become very icy for a couple hrs. The risk of icing will conclude speedily at the shoreline, but will linger earlier 9 or 10 a.m. inland.
The motive why we won’t see any snow on Christmas Day is that the air above us will be much too heat. Any snowflakes that tumble out of the clouds will soften and then freeze upon call with the chilly surfaces down below.
By mid-morning Saturday, readings will be above freezing and the risk of icing will have subsided. There could be some residual pockets of freezing rain north and west of Interstate 495 and the Mass. Pike.
There might be a rain or snow shower early Sunday, if not…