Winter storm warning timeline

Good morning everyone. I'm storm team meteorologist Alexa Bianco. So looking at the winter weather alerts, we are in a winter storm warning for our area. The eastern side of the states actually in a blizzard warning and other parts along the southern south southern part of New England here. But we're not a blizzard warning, but areas will have some blizzard like conditions from part of this storm forecast focus early light snow today and then we have the heavy snow coming in later on. That heavy snow does continue into monday starts to clear up between six and seven o'clock tomorrow night and we do see some more chances of rain and snow midweek and also the back and half of the week clouds and radar. You can see that system making its way towards us soon. We will see some lingering snow showers for the first half of the day, some appetizers of snow before the real stuff starts to come through and we'll come through a little bit later on. So you can see here some snow showers the first half of the day, pretty scattered, nothing crazy lights, flurries, light snow. But then by 78 o'clock, this is when we start to see the snow pretty much come through widespread between nine and 10 o'clock already and pretty heavy by two a.m. So this is where we're going to see the heaviest amount of snowfall about 1 to 2 inches per hour for snowfall rates. That's significant. That's coming down pretty good and this does continue till about the heaviest going to stay for the morning, especially six a.m. For that morning commute, you really don't want to be on the roads between two a.m. And especially 10 a.m. In the morning, that's gonna be the heaviest and that's gonna be the most dangerous because the visibility will be low as well from the strong wind gusts. We're gonna see peak hour till about one o'clock because we're still seeing some snow showers, still seeing some snow Easter going 91 here, but pretty much we're starting to see this clear out of the valley for the most part by one o'clock and by 767 o'clock we're drying up here in the valley. The eastern side of the stage is still dealing with that snow continuing a bit for some snow showers. Then by 12 a.m. We're drying up. Some of those clouds are starting to dissipate. We're drying up for Tuesday and seeing some sunshine. But as far as the forecast goes for accumulation, we've had to adjust this a few times because this one's a little bit trickier, especially with the temperature, the snow tolerant ratio and it's it's it's it's wobbled a little bit. So 3 to 6 more north, especially in the northern part of the Berkshires, very, very northern part of Berkshires around North Adams. For the most part, everyone's seeing a good amount of snow. So 6 to 10 for more of the central part of the valley and even the Berkshires 10 to 18 for everybody else. So everyone's gonna get a big amount of snow. Um, regardless, it's gonna be plowable. Regardless, it's gonna be heavy to lift you because it's not gonna be, um, what? It's not gonna be wet, but it's not gonna be fluffy either. It's gonna be more sticky. It's gonna be more dense. So that's really want to watch out for two is make sure not to lift with your back when lifting this snow either when shoveling. So when Gus are gonna pick up in speed by 12 by tonight into the rest of the overnight hours, especially up to 50 mile per hour when Gus through the overnight hours into Monday morning and even the early half of afternoon, it's going to decrease visibility quite a bit. I can't emphasize that enough. So you really want to be careful and power outages are expected from this as well. And these windier conditions do continue even into Monday evening. Even after the storm is pushed out, we're still gonna be having those gusty air conditions heading into Tuesday. But as far as what to expect from this snow from the snow storm, snow starts eight o'clock. Widespread gonna be gusty Monday, heaviest two a.m. to about one o'clock in the afternoon, 1 to 2 inches per hour for snow rates and then low visibility. Power outages gonna stick to power lines. Trees want to watch out for falling trees. Just have everything you need now and get it done this morning to be prepared for what we're gonna be expecting 10 to 18 for some parts and then also 6 to 10 for others and then the 3 to 6 for the more normal north you go. But as far as today goes, 32 36 is your range of highs, light snow early, heavy snow later, gusty tonight, heavy snow, windy 2020 26 is your range of lows. And here's the 20 storm team seven day forecast. So mid thirties today, heavy snow later on that snow continues into Monday, persisting with the wind and then also a dip in temperature by Tuesday, a bit into upper twenties, partly sunny and a chance of some snow and rain mixed by Wednesday. Temperatures finally get more mild into the lower forties, especially for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Snow mix on Thursday evening into Friday potentially, and we finally see some sunshine by Saturday with temperatures in the mid forties.