Snow Day: Natick Schools Closed Ahead Of Tuesday Nor'easter

NATICK, MA — It's a snow day in Natick, as school district officials announced that schools would close for the impending nor'easter.

All before and after school activities are also canceled, officials said.

Though many cities and towns have closed buildings and canceled school, the projected snow totals have diminished as the day wore on Monday.

Forecasts now show a nor'easter heading for southern New England has shifted south — and with it, the high snow totals that were initially predicted across a big section of the state.

On Monday afternoon, snow totals were downgraded from 8 to 12 inches along the Mass Pike corridor to as little as 2 inches close to Boston. The National Weather Service also shrunk the areas in the state under a winter storm warning. The warning now encompasses southern Worcester County, plus Suffolk, most of Middlesex, Essex, Plymouth, Bristol and Barnstable County.

Here are the new snow total, according to the National Weather Service:

• Boston area — 2 to 4 inches
• Worcester area — 4 to 8 inches
• Framingham area — 4 to 6 inches
• Gloucester area — 2 to 4 inches
• Norwood area — 4 to 8 inches
• Cape Cod — 1 inch, plus rain

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