Deep freeze this weekend, with warmer weather on the way
Central Massachusetts missed the snow that fell Friday on the Cape, but you'll have to bundle up this weekend. It’s going to be frigid.
Temperatures are expected to fall to 11 degrees overnight Friday into Saturday morning, minus 5 with wind chill factored in. It’s going to be cold again overnight Saturday into Sunday, when the wind chill could hit minus 10 degrees. The expected low is 12 degrees.
“Thankfully, it’s short-lived,” meteorologist Frank Nocera at the National Weather Service in Norton said Friday of the stretch of bitter cold.
Relief is around the corner, as a warming trend hits the area next week due to a shift in the jet stream. Temperatures are expected to climb to 35 degrees on Monday and as high as 45 on Thursday.
The normal temperature in the Worcester area this time of year is around 35 degrees, so while 45 will seem tropical compared to what we’ve experienced recently, Nocera said, the higher temperatures won’t come close to setting daily records.
For perspective, the all-time high on Jan. 24, which is next Wednesday, is 59 degrees, set in 1999. The record for any Jan. 25 is 56 degrees, set in 1938.
While the Cape and Plymouth County got 2 to 3 inches of snow Friday, Worcester didn’t get a flake. At the same time, heavier snow accumulation punched Philadelphia and New York with 3 to 5 inches of the white stuff.
Contact Henry Schwan at henry.schwan@telegram.com. Follow him on X: @henrytelegram.
Final snowfall forecast for today. Overall a very minor/limited impact event. Accumulations are forecast to take place during the evening commute which may introduce some minor travel impacts, especially along routes 3 and 6 in MA. pic.twitter.com/3GiShFkMKe
— NWS Boston (@NWSBoston) January 19, 2024
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