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Originally Posted by AC2717
Hi R2B and CLA.
I am getting conflicting information for NOAA and from all the stations down here in Boston, can you tell me the honest forecast for the boston area within 128 belt below the MA Pike? You guys have been right more than then and I trust your outlooks. I do not think this storm has a chance to move up given the cold air pushing back down and if it hits the ocean much like the one in December the weekend of the 19th, that never really stopped until the end of the Sunday
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I see the radar showing ocean-influence moving westward but having some trouble getting inland from the immediate shore. It's all mix and rain off the MA coast now, with rain on Cape Cod and sleet in RI. Given this scenario I don't think it will be long before Boston changes over to sleet. However, there is a very sharp cutoff between the ocean influence and the cold air inland. For example Portsmouth is 29 right now and Manchester is 19, as is Rochester.
I think Boston area inside of Rt 128 from the MA pike southward will probably get more of a messy 6 inches out of this today, and then a change back to snow tonight with another inch or two. That will happen very quickly as the storm passes and winds shift from east into the NW.
For the Lakes Region I'll go for an average of 18 inches with the most snow falling on the east-facing slopes of hills as well as near them... but the lake's effect of "runway from the ocean" as I mentioned in last post concerns me with this one. There is a chance the sleet could make it farther inland along the Rt 11 corridor where landforms help channel the inland-bound air.
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