Showers Thursday morning will sink south steadily, clearing even the South Coast by midday with a dry afternoon. By evening, enough cool and dry air will move in for clearing sky in time for midnight on New Year’s Eve, with temperatures running around 30 to 35 degrees in southern New England and 25 to 30 degrees north.
The New Year dawns with sunshine and cool air, staying dry Friday ahead of the next approaching storm, set to march from the Mississippi River Valley to the New England/Canada border.
The front push of moisture ahead of the storm arrives Friday night from southwest to northeast between 8 p.m. and midnight for many (a bit later in Maine), starting as snow for the interior of southern New England but changing to rain fairly quickly. Farther north, particularly from north-central Massachusetts points north, snow will accumulate more readily before any change to rain, and is unlikely to change to rain in northern New England until the event is all but over Satu