Say it ain’t snow.
Just as the calendar flips to April after a snowless March, there’s a chance for some snow. That’s New England for you.
The National Weather Service’s Boston office is tracking the potential for a coastal storm next week, which could drop some snow across parts of Massachusetts.
The forecast is still very uncertain for next Tuesday through Thursday, but it appears that another strong low-pressure system will likely bring a multi-day precipitation event to the region.
“There’s the potential for a coastal storm with rain and wet snow,” Hayden Frank, meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Boston office, told the Herald on Friday.
“It looks like it will be chilly with rain and/or wet snow at times,” Frank added. “A lot of the details are uncertain at this point.”
April snow storms are definitely not unheard of for Massachusetts.
Back in 1997 on April Fools’ Day, a blizzard buried the region with more than two feet of snow.
“It doesn’t happen every year, but we’ve had several April snow storms,” Frank said. “April snow isn’t something that’s completely abnormal for us.”
Boston has only recorded a trace of snow throughout all of March, and the city is well below normal for the winter.
The city has received only 9.7 inches of snow since December — breaking down 0.2 inches in December, 9 inches in January, and 0.5 inches in February.
The total of 9.7 inches of snow is 37.5 inches below normal for the last three decades in Boston. The average at this point is 47.2 inches of snow.
Before the possible snow, the weekend looks like it will be mainly dry with some sunshine. High temps should be in the 50s amid some windy conditions.
