The warmup ahead and the midweek changes. Youre watching wcvb, bostons news leader. Good morning this is newscenter 5s eyeopener. Antoinette warmup indeed. Were excited about that. Good morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. 6 00. Im Antoinette Antonio. Doug and im doug meehan. It is saturday, january 30. Although if you look at danielles map coming up in a bit you would think it was more like march. Danielle thats right. As the temperatures warm up in the 40s today and 50s by sunday. Yes, you can can you believe it . We are warming things up quite a bit. 32 right now this morning in boston. But its still in the 20s in worcester and in orange and in keene. Be aware of that. There is wind out there this morning as well. You can see winds sustained in worcester at 22 miles an hour, in boston at 13 miles an hour. That is creating a bit of a wind chill so it still feels like the teens in worcester. At least this morning. So make sure if youre headed out the door, you bundle up. Goi
Danielle antoinette and doug, yes. This storm number one is coming together now. We do have a winter storm watch now issued not only for southeastern mass but were also talking about the north shore into metro west and even into southern Worcester County. Again this whole area in blue expected to get some snow beginning tomorrow morning and also into tuesday morning. Its coming from storm number one which is down to the south here. Its gathering a lot of moisture. Two. That will follow close behind it for tuesday afternoon into wednesday. Closer to home right now, youre looking at pretty much clear skies to start out your sunday. Temperaturewise, were starting mass. 27 in worcester. 31 degrees in boston. 22 degrees in plymouth. Now high temperatures today are going to warm up into the low to even mid 40s. Well see a lot of sunshine and then those clouds increase from our approaching system. Thats what were looking for on by 5 00 here come the clouds overnight into first thing tomorrow
Winter storm watch now in effect not only for southeastern mass. It does include the city of boston, worcester and up threup parts of the north shore. And metro west. Tuesday morning. Its coming from storm system number one and then its two. Though. So all eyes turn our attention to number one. Right now were talking about clear skies and again were going to see a lot of sunshine through the day today. Start inning the teens out through central mass. 25 worcester. 32 degrees in boston. And for today, we warm up into the low to mid 40s with lots of sunshine. Now here comes the clouds on the future cast. By 5 00 p. M. , they are here out ahead of our next system. Snow starts flying at about 5 00 a. M. May start as a rainsnow mix turning to real snow. By 8 00 moving into boston and worcester. Well go hour by hour for you for your monday and also talk about how much to expect where you live. Antoinette danielle, thank you. Right now one local town reeling from tragedy. Heavy snow weighing
Delay today. In west virginia, Jefferson County schools will open two hours late. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein tracking the storm. Tom. It is going to be maybe an historic storm for boston. This is what it looked like in the blizzard of 78 paralyzing new england. This is route 28 like the beltway around boston. This is what it looked like. Paralyzed thousands of cars. It took a week to get things cleared out. They had massive Power Outages as well. Both of the storms will be combining to form this giant storm forming off of long island. Blizzard warnings from long island to boston. Right now, here its all rain except the areas in white. Now lingering lighter snows along the blue ridge, warren, clark, frederick counties in virginia. Loudoun county in virginia. Frederick county, maryland getting a little bit of that wet snow. Most melting on roadways. Closer to washington, in the mid30s. Around the beltway. Just outside the beltway, some locations there are near the freezing ma
Significant amount of snow thats expected to fall in areas of eastern new england, around boston, massachusetts and connecticut and high winds as well so theyve got the blizzard warning thats been posted areas of eastern massachusetts and connecticut. Newark almost an inch. Caldwell in new jersey, 3 inches of snowfall in yonkers just over 2 as well. In that pocket of boston and through areas of connecticut even, a blizzard warning where they could see a foot to upward of 2 feet of snow. Heres what theyre expecting up through here. Again, the higher snowfall amounts, the bullseye right there had. Well be on the tail end of it all. Still again, its wind for us and the storm system, again, ramping up. Look at radar right now. Theres the area of low pressure moving up the coast and that other little piece sweeping in to meet up with it. An area of low pressure that will really allow this system to intensify. On our radar now, were getting light showers coming through the area that will be