April Fool — Springtime Temperatures Will Give Way to Cold, Snow

Staff Reports02:00PM / Wednesday, March 31, 2021Print Story | Email Story

Here is the Late night Weather Brief on the detailed breakdown of the potential snowfall Thursday...esp well north and west.

as of 11pm. pic.twitter.com/9iM0G12WCd
— Steve Caporizzo (@SteveCaporizzo) March 31, 2021

It's not over yet.

Berkshire County residents can expect some snow Thursday, according to AccuWeather.

In North Adams, snow is expected to start falling around 2 p.m. and continue until about 8 p.m. Temperatures will hover around 40 degrees and drop throughout the day, hitting the low 20s overnight.

Total accumulation should be around an "inch or two."

It is a different story in Central County. According to Accuweather, Pittsfield residents can expect a coating to an inch of snow Wednesday night through Thursday morning and the same thing Thursday evening from 5 to 7 p.m.

South County is getting away with little to no accumulation with Accuweather predicting some light snowfall on Thursday from 2 until 5 p.m.

The National Weather Service currently has a hazardous weather outlook for the region with warnings and advisories to the west and north. NWS is forecasting rain mixed with snow across the region with possible light snowfall amounts. "There remains some uncertainty regarding the storm track and snowfall amounts," according to the agency.

WTEN Meteorologist Steve Caporizzo said folks can expect some "heavy and wet snow in some areas." He did not anticipate a "real big impact" in and around the Capital Region but said:

"If you are going north and west the snow picks up. The farther northwest, the higher elevation, the more snow you will get."

But rest assured, Berkshire County residents should not expect more than 1 to 2 inches (knock on wood).

Too soon to park the snowblower? That is not a question iBerkshires.com can answer.

Rain will change to snow late tonight into Thursday morning. Moderate/heavy snow is expected across the SW Adirondacks/western Mohawk Valley, with lighter amounts elsewhere. However, a slight shift in the storm track could bring greater amounts farther south and east. pic.twitter.com/LcHfg5GNmx
— NWS Albany (@NWSAlbany) March 31, 2021

Early call on potential snowfall locally from late Wed. night through Thur. There is uncertainty in how fast a switch from rain to snow will occur, as well as precip. rates during the day Thur. both of which can impact amounts. https://t.co/SrboJXIGQw pic.twitter.com/3kxUOwSMYB
— Steve LaPointe (@CBS6Steve) March 30, 2021

It may look like a late April Fool's prank, but we assure you the chilly temps in Friday's forecast are no joke. Daily records over the eastern US may be broken as lows dip 10 to 15 degrees below normal into the 20s and 30s while parts of the South could experience a late freeze. pic.twitter.com/tGCK8qCA1M
— NWS Weather Prediction Center (@NWSWPC) March 30, 2021

Meteorologists say it is possible for a few snowflakes to fall in the northern and western suburbs of Philadelphia and New York City at the tail end of the storm Thursday: https://t.co/5CyS3SQR1i pic.twitter.com/NnTuHKxTxL
— AccuWeather (@breakingweather) March 31, 2021

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North Adams School Project Awards $51M Bid

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
05:10AM / Friday, February 13, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The School Building Committee has awarded the Greylock School project to Fontaine Bros. Inc. of Springfield.

Mayor Jennifer Macksey said she could "breathe a little better" with a bid contract that comes in nearly $2 million under budget.

The committee approved a bid of $50,498,544 on Thursday night that includes two alternates — the rebuild of the Appalachian Trail kiosk and the relocation and reconstruction of the baseball field.

"I will say, all in all, for us to have overall the number of bidders that we had interested in our project, and especially to receive the GC bids that we did, the team Colliers and TSKP certainly did a good job attracting people to us," she said. "But this project ... really shows the testament of the good work that Colliers and TSKP and all of you have been doing throughout this process."

Fontaine had the low bid between Brait Builders of Marshfield and J&J Contractors Inc. of North Billerica.

The project had been bid out at $52,250,000 with three alternates: moving the ballfield, the kiosk and vertical geothermal wells.

Committee members asked Timothy Alix of Collier's International, the owner's project manager, about his impressions of the bidders. He was most familiar with Fontaine, having worked with the company on a half-dozen school projects and noted it was the contractor on the Mountain View Elementary School in Easthampton that the Massachusetts School Building Authority has held up as an example school. He also had some of his colleagues call on projects that he had not personally worked on.

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