April Fool’s Day Storm May Mean Snow for Boston, Northeast
March 29, 2011, 1:57 PM EDTBy Brian K. Sullivan
March 29 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Northeast, particularly Boston, may end the week and start the month with snow. It’s too early to determine whether New York City will get more snow from the system, according to the National Weather Service.
The storm would arrive 14 years after another March 31- April 1 system left 25.4 inches (64.5 centimeters) in Boston and 33 inches (84 centimeters) in neighboring Worcester, Massachusetts, according to the weather service.
New York’s snowfall will be “zero to some,” said Lauren Nash, a weather service meteorologist in Upton, New York. “We can’t put an amount on it yet.”
A low-pressure system will strengthen off the Atlantic coast and move up past the U.S. Northeast, said Matt Doody, a weather service meteorologist in Taunton, Massachusetts. The snowfall may be a few flakes or 10 inches, depending on the storm’s track and the amount of cold air that descends over the region, he said.
Doody said the storm will probably start as snow and then change to rain before changing back to snow. How long it rains will also determine how much snow stays on the ground, he said.
Since December, 61.9 inches of snow has fallen in Central Park, making this the third-snowiest year on record, according to the weather service. The top season was 1995-96, when 75.6 inches of snow fell in Central Park.
Boston has had 79.5 inches of snow, according to the weather service.
--Editors: Richard Stubbe, David Marino
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