2 more snow events coming this week

The blustery winds from earlier today are settling down tonight under a mainly clear sky and lows dropping to the low 20s. A ridge of high pressure will furnish a good deal of sunshine for Monday, but it will be a colder day with a high only in the low 30s.

Our eyes will then be on an area of low pressure forming along the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday. This system looks to remain a fairly weak system and well out at sea, but it will be close enough to spread light snow across the region Tuesday morning and continue through the afternoon before tapering off during the evening hours. Areas closer to the south coast and southeastern Massachusetts may see some rain mixing in as temperatures during the afternoon in those regions look to climb into the mid 30s while further away from the coast highs only reach 32°.

Right now I’d have to say that most of the Ocean state will see 2-3 inches and where some mixing occurs it would be more like 1 to 2 inches. If you are up in the northwest corner of the state or in Worcester county some towns could reach a 4th inch, but overall the snow accumulation pace across all of Southern New England will be a slow process and easy enough for road crews to treat.

Then some modified Arctic air works into the region for midweek with morning lows in the teens and afternoon highs struggling to reach 30° despite a good deal of sunshine. By Friday there’s winter storm brewing of the coast that will bring additional snowfall. This doesn’t look to be an intense storm, but it could bring a few more inches of snow than Tuesday’s storm. Once that storm departs some bitter Arctic air slides in for the weekend with morning lows in the single digits and highs only reaching the mid 20s!