WEATHER UPDATE: Simsbury's Hour-by-Hour Monday Forecast

The National Weather Service has issued a “Winter Weather Advisory” in effect until 1 a.m., Tuesday for heavy snow, particularly early Monday afternoon, in northern Connecticut and parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, but with snow continuing Monday night.

The weather service is predicting 6 to 8 inches of snow accumulating from Saturday to Tuesday.

About 2 to 4 inches of snow is expected for Simsbury all day and another 1 to 3 inches overnight, according to the weather service’s 10:51 a.m. update of its Simsbury-specific forecast.

The weather service states that driving will be “hazardous.”

Hour by Hour

Here’s the hour-by-hour Simsbury forecast (as of 11 a.m.), according to the Weather Channel website (each hourly time refers the upcoming 60 minutes):

• 11 a.m. — light snow
• Noon and 1 p.m. — snow
• 2 p.m. through 4 p.m. — light snow
• 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. — snow showers
• 10 p.m. — few snow showers
• 11 p.m., Monday to 7 a.m., Tuesday — cloudy