Remote Learning Gives Stoneham Snow Day Edge

STONEHAM, MA — A midweek storm is expected to bring the first serious snowfall of the year, but the prospect of a snow day has dimmed in a year when districts have adapted to the pandemic.

Stoneham Public Schools Superintendent John Macero said schools' first option will be to shift to remote learning on a snow day.

"When calling a snow day this year the district will utilize the day as a remote school day," Macero wrote in an email to Patch. "If the storm eliminates power, and we cannot connect remotely, then it would be a traditional snow day and made up at the end of the year."

The storm is expected to hit the region Wednesday night and continue through midday Thursday, dumping as much as 8 to 12 inches on parts of the region.

The National Weather Service said the amount of snow depends on how the storm tracks and interacts with an area of high pressure that will keep temperatures in the low 30s from Tuesday onward.

Under its current trajectory, the hardest-hit areas would cover an area from the Massachusetts Turnpike to the Upper Cape, with northern Massachusetts and the Outer Cape seeing lower snowfall totals.

The storm could also bring heavy wind and cause minor coastal flooding problems around 1 p.m. Thursday, when high tide hits Boston.