RI Weather Today – Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020

by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist

We start the day in a frigid way, morning lows around 20 with dew points in the single digits…but it’s a dry cold. Afternoon highs will only barely crack 30 as cloud cover will be increasing in density and eventually onloading on us from early evening on into the night as a nor’easter lights it up. Models are converging on an intense period of moderate to heavy snow from midnight until 3am for the bulk of the accumulation, which by Thursday afternoon should top off between 8-12 inches generally, of course more in the northwestern snow belt of Burrillville and Foster-Glocester…Salty Brine, anyone? I think school’s already been called for most areas for Thursday,