Wintry Mix to Last Through Evening for East, Northern Region
By Matt Noyes ••
Wednesday: Rain and snow showers. Highs around 40. Overnight Wednesday: Flurries end. Patchy black ice. Lows around 30. Thursday: Sun returns. Highs in the 40s.
We’ll have one more day of gray skies and drab weather for most of New England before sunshine returns.
Wednesday morning dawned with drizzle, clouds, areas of fog and mountain bursts of snow, except morning sunshine over a foot-deep snowpack in northern Maine.
A snowy northern Maine should be among the only New England recipients of sunshine Wednesday, as abundant atmospheric energy aloft teams with heaps of moist air already in place to create clusters of rain and snow showers and bursts off and on through the day.
For most, temperatures safely above freezing means the snow is little more than a touch of wintry ambiance, save for some accumulations of a coating on the grass, or an inch or two on the old snow in northern and western New England.
With a combination of rain and snow showers converging to a shield of steady light rain and snow during the afternoon, it will last into the evening for most of eastern and northern New England. This will leave roads wet overnight.
Skies are expected to clear and temperatures are expected to fall after midnight, leading to pockets of black ice by early Thursday morning. Otherwise, the clearing trend will be much appreciated by sun-starved New Englanders who find a return to a blue sky Thursday. Temperatures will respond to the increased sun by rising to near 50 degrees!
In this active weather pattern, we don’t get much of a break between systems. Friday will bring our next disturbance, but an increasing southwest wind ahead of the system will allow temperatures to bump well into the 50s, 40s north, even with lots of clouds and a few showers from time to time.
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Cars and trucks are seen stopped traffic on Interstate 5 near Dunsmuir, California, in this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019, provided by Caltrans. A "bomb cyclone," which triggers a rapid drop in air pressure, brought snow to the mountains and wind and rain along the California and Oregon coasts. Drivers on Interstate 5 near the Oregon-California border spent 17 hours or more in stopped traffic as blizzard conditions whirled outside. Some slept in their vehicles.
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A man walks through the flooded feeder roads off of highway 69 North on Sept. 19, 2019, in Houston, Texas. Imelda dumped over 40 inches of rain in southeast Texas over the week.
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A man tries to direct a school bus on the Imelda-flooded Hopper Road on Sept. 19, 2019, in Houston, Texas.
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Angel Marshman wades through floodwaters from Tropical Depression Imelda after trying to start his flooded car, Sept. 18, 2019, in Galveston, Texas.
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Storm damaged homes remain on May 28, 2019, after tornadoes passed through Indiana and Ohio on Memorial Day evening in Brookville, Ohio.
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Mount Etna spews lava during an eruption on May 30, 2019. Sicily's Mount Etna has roared back into spectacular volcanic action from Thursday morning, sending up plumes of ash and spewing lava.
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Mozambique's Macomia district is badly damaged, with some houses totally collapsed, in the aftermath of Cyclone Kenneth on April 27, 2019. Approximately 160,000 people in Mozambique were at risk from Cyclone Kenneth, which swept the area six weeks after Cyclone Idai killed 600 people in central Mozambique.
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Floodwater drench the port city of Beira, Mozambique, on March 18, 2019. The Red Cross says that as much as 90 percent of Mozambique's central port city of Beira has been damaged or destroyed by Cyclone Idai. Mozambique's President, Filipe Nyusi, say more than 1,000 people may be dead.
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Photos shared by Nebraska Sen. Sasse and Gov. Ricketts show the devastation being left by severe flooding, which includes massive ice chunks.
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Canada geese battle choppy water as a late winter storm packing hurricane-force winds and snow sweeps on March 13, 2019, in Denver. A bomb cyclone slammed into the Midwest on Wednesday, cutting power lines, grounding flights and stranding motorists on the road.
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People play in the snow in Las Vegas, Feb. 21, 2019, during a rare winter snowstorm. The rare event dumped up to eight inches of snow in some parts of the city.
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Commuters wait for a train as snow falls on Jan. 28, 2019, in Chicago. "Possibly life threatening" wind chills could dip to negative 55 degrees in northern Illinois throughout the week - low temperatures not seen in the last quarter century. Cities in the northeast are seeing temperatures dip from a mid-week blast of cold Arctic air moving south. Some southern states like Mississippi and Alabama are even expected to see snow.
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Extreme temperatures froze parts of the Niagara Falls at the Canada-U.S. border, as seen in this photo taken on Jan. 22, 2019.
A cold front attendant to the passing storm system will knock temperatures back down Saturday, but dry air will mean sunshine and the pick of the weekend.
Sunday looks unsettled. We’re unsure of the exact storm track, so precise rain/snow line details and timing are to be determined, but chances are good that it will be the worse of the two weekend days.
Farther out in the exclusive First Alert 10-Day Forecast, we’ve already declared a First Alert for the Wednesday before Thanksgiving due to expected rain and possible wind on a busy travel day/evening. We’ll keep you posted as we draw closer.
