40/70 Benchmark

I could def. see 4-8"...agree my map is conservative, but I just don't trust the higher QPF output yet....maybe tomorrow night I patch 4-8" over the 3-6".

12"? No. Maybe like 4-8"....

Rough Commute On Tap Friday AM Delays & Cancellations Likely What was expected to be an inch or so of snowfall on Tuesday afternoon ended up being several inches in some cases, which made for an absolutely dreadful afternoon commute. Hopefully better insight with respect to a potentially similar evolution overnight Thursday into Friday morning will afford commuters the luxury of planning ahead so that a similar fate will not be endured on Friday morning. Cancellations are advised, and at the very least delays on Friday AM for districts north and west of Boston. Synoptic Evolution The region enjoyed a pleasant day in the 50s today as a byproduct of the polar jet finally having retreated to the north. However, in its' wake is a fairy zonal flow from the west-southwest that is sending the next wave of low pressure rapidly careening across the country and towards the region. A most interesting trait of winter 2025-2026 has been for it to manufacture cold at least excuse imaginable, as if part of a concerted effort on the part of mother nature to atone for sins in the eyes of local winter enthusiasts over the past several years, when the opposite was the case. Early Friday is poised to be no different. While the general pattern is one of moderation given the aforementioned retreat of the polar jet, an appendage of polar high pressure if forecast to knife into the region at the most inopportune time late Thursday night and early Friday morning, as precipitation traverses the area during the build up to the Friday morning commute. The most laymen of weather followers can write the rest of the script at this point of the season. Expected Forecast Evolution Light rain is forecast to overspread the southwestern third of Connecticut on Thursday morning. The showers may begin to mix with sleet over the Berkshires and Worcester hills as they extend north of the Mass pike during Thursday afternoon. Thursday evening precipitation moving northeast begins to interact with the cold backing southwest from Maine in earnest, producing an area snowfall to the north of the Mass pike. Precipitation may briefly mix with, or even change to sleet and snow down to the I 84 corridor of Connecticut towards midnight late Thursday evening, but precipitation should remain primarily rain and freezing rain in these areas with some significant icing possible, especially across higher terrain. Snowfall will continue moderate to even briefly heavy at times points north and east. Precipitation will begin gradually tapering off to the east during the morning commute and end later in the morning, but not before significant delays and cancellations are necessitated on Friday morning, especially to the north of Boston. First & Final Call: Beyond the spring preview next week, the forecast split of the vortex is finally taking place and may have important ramifications for the second half of the month. Better late than never-

https://easternmassweather.blogspot.com/2026/03/rough-commute-on-tap-friday-am.html First & Final Call:

If it's on a weekend, great.....but I'm taking Friday off...fu(k this shit. I work on the only major hill in Chelsea and it's awful in the wintry weather.

Just did.

Yea...the commute sucked immensely...I guess I didn't follow your post.

He'd probably be all for it, but you'd probably have to lure Hunchie to participate with at least a ski pass or something... Damage in certain parts of the anatomy, too...

Yea, I skipped out on the last one thinking it was like an inch..I just have one foot out the door and am tired of blogging for 3"ers. Just doing one-and-done on this.

That event sucked rigor motis ridden ass.

Huh?

Nah, this one wouldn't elicit that much emotion from me...not high enough stakes.

I would 100% take that over the blizzard a couple of weeks ago....100%.

Yea, this event is trying to pull a blizzard on me and slide southward.

These are undoubtedly tethered together.