Hi, everyone. I'm meteorologist Hayley Lapointe. Here's an update on your work
week forecast, which does include *** major northeaster set to impact us late
tomorrow night and continue all the way through Tuesday and even into early on
Wednesday before things finally slow down, we're looking at significant
heavy wet snow, especially to the north and to the west of Manchester where it
likely stays all snow and the consistency of the snow will be that
wet pasty snow. So it's going to be For shoveling and may also mean that we
could see some power outages, not only because of the heavy wet snow but also
wind being *** component with this storm system. Some strong gusts
possible up to 40, even 45 mph as the storm system actually intensifies. On
top of us, the results will be difficult and messy travel likely,
especially through the day on Tuesday, which of course is town meeting day. So
there will be some big impacts on that on. Tuesday. There is *** winter storm
watch that's posted for pretty much everywhere in the state. The only
exception county simply because there will just be less of an impact there.
And so likely it's just light snow and much less in the way of even wind there
too. The storm center will be down just off the coast of southern New England.
So the closer you are to that, meaning in southern New Hampshire, probably the
worst conditions will likely be. We're starting to see clouds increase. It was
*** beautiful Sunday with bluebird skies and even some mild temperatures
in the forties, close to 50 in some spots. But the storm system, it hasn't
even totally formed yet, but the energy is out there over the Great Lakes down
through the southeastern US and eventually that will come together and
form this northeaster just off of the Cape Cod and the Islands as we go
through the next 24 to 48 hours. So here's future cast, you can see what's
going to happen here overnight. The clouds are increasing but it's dry
tomorrow morning and through much of the first half of the day on Monday,
then in the afternoon, we're going to start to see some of these spotty
showers or even some snow showers up north. Really. This is just the
beginning of the storm system. It's not even really ramping up that comes after
dark. Look at this *** plume of some heavy snow in the Menno region but then
rain at Manchester South and east and this is how it will linger through ***
lot of the overnight on Monday, But that's why we will likely have some of
the heaviest amounts of snow in the Manna knock region where it stays snow
the entire time and where it snows the longest. Notice this seven AM on
Tuesday, it may not even have snowed yet through central and northern New
Hampshire, but watch this as the storm kind of blossoms and intensifies. Look
at this heavy plume of moisture and snow moving across the state right off
of the ocean. Really you can see that these darker shades of blue indicating
very heavy snowfall around noon time in southern and central areas of the state
and that does lift northwards. So, yes, you'll get light snow in the northern
part of the state in Coos County, but just not nearly as much as what we
likely will see in the jackpot zone in the knock region. It slowly dwindles as
we go overnight into early on Wednesday. Here's our latest snowfall map. We made
one small change with the new data that came in this afternoon. And this
evening, I'm thinking this 4 to 8 inch area likely will extend just into
Concord. But then about 8 to 12 inches when you get through, say the white
mountains down through Laconia, Rochester, even Manchester in this. And
then the heaviest amounts of snow will be in that light pink area, which is
essentially Jaffrey up into Peterborough and right in the southern
edge of the sun area 12 to 18 inches. lesser amounts where we mix with rain
Portsmouth and the southeastern part of the state and also lesser amounts to
the north and to the west where you're just further away from the storm center.
The travel impacts of course will be high on Tuesday because of just this
heavy wet snow coming through. And in terms of the winds look at that up near
45 MPH and maybe even some places gusting to close to 50 out at the coast
late on Tuesday as the storm system actually exits and moves away. So we've
got the impact and alert weather through the storm system early on
Wednesday, we clear out it will be breezy and then it's quieter as we get
into the latter half of the week with temperatures back in the 40s