Snow 7+ Inches Triggers Winter Weather Advisory Across MA This Weekend

MASSACHUSETTS — Parts of Massachusetts could get walloped with 7 or more inches of snow Saturday night into Sunday as a long-duration storm brings a combination of messy winter weather and potentially dangerous travel conditions across the state.

The National Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Advisory for Worcester County and the northern and western sections of Middlesex County starting Saturday afternoon and continuing through Sunday as snow could turn into a prolonged stretch of icy accumulation.

The NWS is calling for 3 to 7 inches of snow across interior Massachusetts with a glaze to a few tenths of an inch of ice possible on top of that.

The NWS said snow will develop after 5 p.m. on Saturday and then become heavy into the evening. Snow will continue into the early morning hours before turning to sleet and then rain near the coast between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m.

Rain, freezing rain and sleet will extend across the state by 7 a.m. with mostly rain in eastern Massachusetts after 9 a.m. on Sunday. However, interior sections and the higher terrain of Worcester County and the North Shore could endure an extended period of ice.

Temperatures will rise into the 40s near the coast on Sunday before crashing back into the 20s at night when precipitation will end as more snow across the state.

The sun will return on Presidents Day with a cold and blustery stretch to follow with highs in the 20s and low 30s each day, and lows near 10 degrees each night, through the end of school vacation week.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)