Boston, put together for snow … and sleet, and freezing rain

Better Boston is trying into a real wintery mixture of climate situations over the weekend.

“There is a storm system coming through this weekend. We’re expecting pretty much every type of winter precip. you can think of,” Kyle Pederson, a Nationwide Climate Service meteorologist on the Norton station, advised the Herald Friday.

That seize bag of winter precipitation is anticipated to start Saturday afternoon with snow as a climate system approaches from the southwest.

Boston and every little thing north of the Massachusetts Turnpike — Interstate 90 — will get as a lot as 3 to six inches of snow from the preliminary dump earlier than that transitions into freezing rain after which common rain that Pederson mentioned he expects will dry out by Sunday night.

Communities south of Boston will get the identical factor, however on a sooner timeline as it’s hit first by the climate system. Pederson predicts 2 to 4 inches of snow within the space.

And due to the contours of that system, which is able to characteristic temperatures proper round freezing that may then shortly heat up, the snow is “going to be that heavy wet stuff that’s tough to shovel,” Pederson mentioned.

“The warmer your temperature is, the more water mixes in with your snow and makes it heavier,” he mentioned.

Because the snow begins to fall Saturday afternoon, temperatures needs to be proper round 30 levels, rising just a little to round 31 levels within the early hours of Sunday morning.

Then temperatures rise extra dramatically: 33 by 8 a.m. Sunday and proceed to steadily rise to as excessive as 42 levels by the night — earlier than crashing dramatically in a single day.

“A close to 20 degree drop in 12 hours,” Pederson mentioned.

Shifting out from Boston, components of New Hampshire may see larger snow in accordance with a NWS station in Maine, with presumably 6 to 10 inches. Central and western Massachusetts and into Connecticut could have a larger probability of heavy freezing rain, which may make roadways extra harmful and will trigger remoted energy outages.

Regardless, the climate will probably be a little bit of a rollercoaster.

“If you’re going to be traveling, especially Sunday evening into Monday morning, be careful,” Pederson mentioned, “it could certainly be slippery travel conditions.”

Initially Printed: February 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM EST