Dig Out the Snow Shovels: Storms Could Drop 3-8 Inches

05:30PM / Sunday, November 01, 2020Print Story | Email Story

Mother Nature's dusting of snow and ice over Halloween just wasn't scary enough. Now she's getting more serious with a strong chance of up to 8 inches over the next two days.

The National Weather Service in Albany, N.Y., has issued a winter weather advisory from 7 p.m. on Sunday through Tuesday morning with snow accumulations ranging from 3 to 8 inches in Southern Vermont and the Northern Berkshire.

Reminder: Winter Parking Bans go into effect beginning Sunday for most communities in the Berkshires. That means no overnight parking on the street and no parking on the street during snowstorms so that plows can get through. Violators may find their vehicles ticketed and/or towed.

Accuweather says a "potent cold front" now over the Great Lakes will bring blustery winds and precipitation over the Northeast into Election Day.

"Temperatures can be 10-15 degrees Fahrenheit below normal in the Northeast and northern mid-Atlantic on Monday," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist David Samuhel said.

Strong winds may cause damage with downed trees and wires so there's the potential of power outages in some areas.

There are two systems that will affect weather over New England: the cold front coming from the Great Lakes and a weaker storm moving south from Canada.

But expect the cold to move out pretty quickly as a warming trend begins midweek that will drive temperatures back up in the 60s.

A line of showers, capable of wind gusts in excess of 40 mph and graupel, will affect portions of the western Mohawk Valley and southern Adirondacks over the next hour or so: https://t.co/n3heyX2864 #nywx pic.twitter.com/qqjMPg9t9Q
— NWS Albany (@NWSAlbany) November 1, 2020

Snow in 3 forms, over the next 36 hours in interior Northeast:

* Strong low pressure tonight across northern New England

* "Purely" lake-effect snow event east of Lakes Ontario and Erie.

* Disturbance late Mon-Mon night (upstate NY-New England)

Radar: https://t.co/FH8suCcvlQ pic.twitter.com/I0lJphVJmJ
— Geoff Cornish (@StormOfCorn) November 1, 2020

Wind Advisory Monday Am Through Monday Evening for Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and portions of Connecticut. West Wind will Gust up to 50mph at times. #Boston #weather #NewEngland pic.twitter.com/zcu6Qc0Hq6
— Meteorologist David J Bagley🌎 (@DavidBagleyWX) November 1, 2020

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NBSU Gives Clarksburg Year's Budget Relief

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
05:46AM / Monday, February 23, 2026

FLORIDA, Mass. — The North Berkshire School Union voted to give member town Clarksburg a financial breather — at least for fiscal 2027.

Town and school officials had proposed changes last month as the town's assessment for the union administration climbed to 54 percent.

The "super" School Committee, after more than an hour of debate, voted 7-2 to raise the other four member towns' assessments by 2 percent, thus giving Clarksburg an 8 percent reduction.

Clarksburg officials had initially brought forward a proposal to set a base percentage for all the towns at 10 percent, with 5 percent for tiny Monroe, and then do the balance based on the current enrollment apportionment.

This was rejected by consensus and other proposals were hashed out at a recent subcommittee meeting. The 2 percent change was brought forward to Thursday's joint committee meeting, which is comprised of all the members of the town school committees.

"I do think it's important to come up with some sort of compromise, but I also believe that there's a lot of data that we need to start looking into throughout this one-year agreement that's going to help with a lot of these questions," said Savoy's Arleigh Cooper.

"I know that there's hesitation. We all looked at numbers at 10 percent at 5 percent I think there was maybe a 7.5 percent or maybe that was just my numbers on my own that I was calculating and even giving a small 2.5 percent for just a one year, I think shows Clarksburg, hey, we are willing to help you out. However, there's so much data that needs to be collected, and it's just too short of a window to do a large number."

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