BOSTON – There is snow in the weather forecast for Boston and parts of Massachusetts Friday and it could stick around long enough for a white Christmas .
Some would call Friday’s snowfall “perfect timing” as we head into the final weekend before the holiday. Others, who need to hit the roads today, may not feel quite as festive. Either way, it appears as though many of us will have a fresh blanket of white before all is said and done Friday night.
Snow forecast
This storm has been very tricky to forecast. In fact, even now, our confidence is much lower than is typical on the day of the event.
So, what’s going on?
We had a relatively small “Alberta Clipper” system streaking towards us from the Upper Midwest over the last 24 hours. This storm is weakening and essentially disintegrating on its current approach to New England. However, some of its energy is being transferred hundreds of miles away to a developing storm to our south, off the Carolinas. This new and improved storm will travel up towards Nova Scotia in the next 24-to-48 hours, a few hundred miles offshore of Massachusetts.