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Everyone, i am julie grauert. We should be used to this by now starting off our day in the teens and 20s. Stormtracker meteorologist shiri spear joins us with the cold spots, and a timeline on todays warmup. Shir. Shirsz shiri kind of small warm shiri kind of small warmup. Teens and 20s. 22 in boston. 20 norwood over to beverly and lawrence. Teens in spots like worcester. Keene at 14. And we have a couple of flurries leaking into the keene area. The spot to really watch is the cape and islands for a couple of those flurries. Through 6 00 this morning, nothing changes. In fact we could go down by 1 or 2 degrees. And the warmup starts by noon and the warmup starts by noontime here. We are crafting 30 degrees in boston. Still a lot of upper 20s on my map. Mostly cloudy in nantucket. Snow showers four of all the spots today. That is the most likely to get the coating of snow. During university noon, we actually end up brightening up. With that said, we can see snow a coating up to possibly
New hampshire and incredibly light and white in reading and flurries and lexington 20 trees natick 21 and cold other big story this morning, boston snowflake free and ocean effect snow now moving across the vineyard and falmouth and mashpee as expected and snow showers in worcester and bedford and nantucket up to the cape and by noon time though, snow is out, clouds begin to break apart, temperatures rising into the upper 20s and we get up to 30 this afternoon so your best bet for and Southern New Hampshire and westwood and that second counting on highs 28 to 34 and more breaks in the clouds this afternoon, next weather maker slated for saturday i got the timeline on rain, snow and wind Julie Grauert with live drive time traffic. Julie, i have a couple things going this morning. And park street off to the righthand side of the road and tow truck on scene getting ready to pull the bus away but slowing things down on 93 as you will see reflected in the drive times shift over to the pike
Cool spots are and a timeline on todays warmup. Shiri todays warmup and flurries in the worcester area, flurries in the worcester area. Southbridge. Another batch over royalston and leominster. Light stuff. Reaching over londonderry and New Hampshire. A potential for a couple of slippery roads this morning. Hopefully all the main roads treated. 22 degrees and now dry in boston. One of the spots that stays dry. Same for the south shore. But as we travel through the morning dont be surprised to see snow showers through the cape and perhaps the islands so far so good and futurecast pumping the snow from Central Massachusetts and southwestern New Hampshire. But this is around the time that i can see couple of ocean effect showers click the cape and island. Upper 20s at noontime, afternoon then brightens up and going to be in the upper 20s to lower 30s. It you can see snow totals fitchburg, keene and orange. Accumulation down to the cape and islands with man in fubingt seeing as much as a h