In order to break into one of the top 10 snowfall slots, Boston needed to receive 20 inches of snow or more this weekend.Īs dawn broke Saturday morning, Boston had already received 3-5 inches of snow with visibility down to one-quarter of a mile as the flakes came down at a rapid pace. "A lot of times you have to pack a bag just in case you get stuck in with heavy, heavy snow and difficult road conditions." The Boston NWS office is actually located in Norton, Massachusetts, a suburb that's about a one-hour drive south of the city. "You could be there for 12 hours plus," Andrew Loconto, Lead Meteorologist at the NWS Boston office, told AccuWeather in an interview. Forecasters at the National Weather Service (NWS) in Boston had already started to prepare for the winter storm by changing meteorologists' typical nine-hour shifts to 12-hour shifts. Near where the storm was expected to be fiercest, similar attention was being paid to the developing weather patterns. Early on, forecasters saw the potential for a "huge snowstorm" to hit New England and, with the heavy snow that spread across the region on Saturday, that's precisely the fate the Boston metro area faced. A major nor'easter is walloping New England and the latest forecast remains on track for this storm to pack a big enough punch to make its way into Boston's top snowstorms on record.ĪccuWeather forecasters have spent all week tracking the developing weather pattern that allowed for a huge storm to begin taking shape.
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