After Massachusetts gets some snow, could there be a White Christmas?
Are you dreaming of a White Christmas?
You could be in luck if you live in certain spots of the Bay State.
A few rounds of snow showers in the days leading up to Dec. 25 means there’s a “decent chance” for a White Christmas in parts of Massachusetts, according to the National Weather Service’s Boston office.
The first round of snow is expected to come late Friday night into Saturday from an offshore coastal storm. Meteorologists are forecasting about 1 to 3 inches of snow, with the highest amounts across interior eastern Massachusetts.
“… Not expecting much in the way of impacts from this wintry system, more of a festive pre-Christmas snowfall that will drop anywhere from a coating to an inch or two from Friday into Saturday afternoon,” reads the National Weather Service’s forecast discussion.
Following the snow, get ready to bundle up. It will get downright frigid over the weekend.
“It will be one of the coldest air masses we’ve seen so far in the early portion of these winter months,” Andrew Loconto,a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Boston office, told the Herald.
High temps on Saturday will be around freezing, and then the coldest air will be on Sunday when high temps will be in the low 20s — with wind chills around 10 to 15. The wind chills Sunday night could drop to five below zero.
Temps Monday should rebound into the upper 20s before ticking up for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
But as far as precipitation goes for Christmas Eve and Day, there could be rain or snow depending on where you live. It’s looking more likely for rain in southeastern Massachusetts, and snowfall across the interior.
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A White Christmas is defined as one inch of snow depth measured on Christmas morning.
“The areas with the best shot for an inch of snow is probably interior New England,” Loconto said. “There’s a decent chance (for a White Christmas) for those interior areas, and for northeastern Massachusetts.”