Snow is in the forecast for Sunday. Here’s how much to expect in RI
PROVIDENCE – Up to six inches of snow could fall in Southern New England Sunday afternoon and Sunday night, according to the National Weather Service.
There’s “increasing confidence in an accumulating/plowable snow” event, although “there is still considerable spread amongst the guidance and this forecast is not set in stone,” the weather service says in its Friday forecast discussion.
Whether the precipitation falls as snow or rain depends on the positioning of low pressure moving into the region Sunday, according to the weather service.
Brown graduate student May Sugano plays with her dog Bruno on the snow-covered Brown University green on Dec. 21. Southern New England hasn’t gotten much snow this season but could get up to six inches Sunday afternoon and Sunday night.
Some computer models have it going further west, some further east. In its forecast discussion, the weather service says it favors “a middle ground.” It says, “This solution would bring a period of accumulating/plowable snowfall which may start as a brief period of rain.”
The National Weather Service is predicting 2 to 6 inches.
“The good news is that the steady snow will pretty much be over by daybreak” Monday, the weather service says.
For Friday, expect a lot of sunshine, and a high of about 36 degrees in the Providence area. Saturday looks warmer with a high of 46, but rain showers should move in Saturday afternoon into the evening. Sunday should start mild and dry before it cools and the precipitation starts.
On Monday, an “arctic outbreak” will bring the coldest temperatures of the season, with low temperatures falling into the single digits Monday and Tuesday nights and highs in the middle teens to lower 20s on Tuesday and Wednesday, the weather service says.
This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: RI weather: Six inches of snow possible Sunday
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