After the Slush: Warmer Weather Arrives
Yuck. After Tuesday's surprise snowstorm (1 to 2 inches??), which sent kids home early and canceled activities, there's another mess headed our way.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for all of Western Massachusetts, Southern Vermont, northern Connecticut and most of Upstate New York and the Capital Region.
The warning runs from 5 p.m. on Thursday to noon Friday, with a forecast of snow and sleet and icy rain.
The region can expect total accumulations of one to 2 inches, with greater expectations of ice totals in the higher elevations.
This will start as rain on Thursday afternoon, before changing over to sleet and freezing rain, and then snow across the northern region. This is expected to taper off on Friday morning.
The evening and morning commutes will be messy with black ice and slippery roads.
Greylock Snow Day's confidence meter is at 45 percent for school delays on Friday morning.
But wait, according to Accuweather, temperatures are going to finally break out of the frozone this weekend and spike across the Midwest and Northeast. We're talking high 40s and maybe even the 50s for New England.
"The pattern from late this week into the weekend will give tens of millions of people in parts of the Midwest and Northeast a serious case of spring fever," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Matt Benz said.
Spring is 17 days away.
A messy storm will begin with plain rain showers this afternoon across southern New England. As cold air bleeds south, a change to ice, sleet and snow will occur from north to south. The storm has trended colder with more sleet potential. #MAwx #CTwx #RIwx #NHwx #MEwx #VTwx
— New England Storm Center (@nestormcenter.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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