Cold Monday, Wintry Storm Tuesday

Monday will be a bright sunny, but colder day with highs in the low 40s! In fact, most of the week ahead will be cold and the weather looks to remain rather active. This sets us up for a wintry mix across southern New England Tuesday and Tuesday night.

This looks to be a relatively quick moving event about 12-15 hours as there will not be any blocking set ups in the North Atlantic to slow it down and lock in the cold air for southernmost New England. What is still be worked out is how close this will track to southern New England and a shift of just 50 miles will result in a huge precipitation difference across RI. As we start to see more and more higher resolution model guidance into tomorrow we’ll be able to pin down the expected storm track better. As of right now (Sunday evening), it looks like the southern half of RI will stay all rain. Some wet snow will likely mix with the rain along the I-95 corridor to start Tuesday morning and then become mainly all rain midday & afternoon and then finally end as snow or snow/rain mix again as it ends Tuesday evening. So slippery conditions will likely result. A minor accumulation of up to 2 inches looks to develop in the NW corner of the state and the further you go up into Worcester county of MA the more likely it’ll be for plowable snowfall amounts (3-6 inches) to occur.

The sun will return Wednesday afternoon and last through Friday, but it will remain cold. Another storm looks to move in Friday night and Saturday bringing a threat of rain and snow once again!

ABC6 Meteorologist Bill Gile