Another storm system will be entering the region during the overnight tonight and continuing through the day on Christmas Eve. We should see gradual clearing across the entire region throughout the day on Thursday. Some spots in southern New England may even see the sun when they first wake up on Christmas morning. Snow showers will linger across New England for the entire Christmas Day.

The onset of precipitation appears to start off as wintry precipitation but then changing quickly over to rain and/or mixed precipitation. The reasoning is warmer air aloft will change any snow over to liquid and then warmer then average temperatures at the surface will cause further melting of any partially or frozen precipitation. The area of greatest risk from seeing wintry precipitation from this system is northern New England, northwestern New York state as colder temperatures should hang on the longest there. Thinking most areas pick up a couple inches on the front end of the system before changing over. Further down to the south it appears that temperatures will be very mild to only support rain.

Once the frontal boundary moves through the region it should cause a crash in the temperatures across the region. Temperatures should drop region wide from the middle to upper 30s cross New England and middle to upper 40s (some spots 50s) to the 20s in New England and 30s across southern New England.

Stay tuned,

Forecaster: Joe Gullo