danielle niles is tracking this and has the first look at the very light snow ed. >> i not going to have a big impact in terms of through the remainder of the day today because it's so light. so it looks nice and there may be a couple scattered coatings. temperatures is right around 30 in the city of worcester and low 30s in boston and light flakes but the ground is warm enough and not is coming down hard enough to create an impact. stray flurries along the plymouth and bristol county coastlines and you back up into the 495 belt and flurries in mansfield and worcester. there's some coatings west of route 91 and through flurries and light showers along the 128 to newton and in the city of boston through medford and maldin so snow showers. see the deeper blues you may get a brief burst of steadier heavier snow through the early evening hours and the skies look at that. clouds fill back in tomorrow. and we get another round of scattered snow showers that may drop a coating to perhaps as much as an inch. so low impact events but don't be caught off guard and look at this the average temperat

meteorologist, danielle niles is here. are you getting whiplash from this forecast? what an influx of temperatures >> whiplash in the sense of this wind that will start to of the day today. it is remarkable to watch this region. the temperature in boston is 49 degrees. it has taken a little bit of rise in southern new hampshire we are above freezing from manchester back down to nashua. pittsburgh still sitting at 3432 in concord. fifties from lawrence to bedford, fog in between as well. 55-57 hear from milton back down to taunton and the upper 40s to low 50s on the cape as well. we have been tracking a couple of showers generally light right now. a few scattered in nature. there are a couple of pockets of light freezing rain that are still lingering north of keene right now into southern indenture. where do we go through here? a lot of us come well into the 50s. and then the heavy rain moves in west to east retweet 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. time timeframe. that coincides with the strongest wind gusts as well. the heaviest rain will push offshore after about 7 o 'clock- 8 o'c

daniel niles was there with dozens of school kids as ms. g made her debut. >>reporter:she sees her s hadow. about make a comeback. six more weeks of winter. >> what you think about ms. g's production? >> i think she is right on. doesn't mean we will have a content to it -- continuous winter weather for the next six weeks, but there will be spells, or episodes of wintry weather in the next six weeks, if not more. >> yesterday's temperatures were a temporary tree? >> yes. it was wonderful, wasn't? it is not that bad today, we have temperatures close to 50 degrees right now, let's see what happened on groundhog groundhog day last year. oh yeah, one of those lizards. look what boston had, 16.2 inches of snow. that swath of 12-20 inches of fluffy snow. i remember last year, every single snowstorm was a powder storm that just does not happen here like that. that was incredible winter, for another -- decades, probably. like once a century winter, we have another storm on the map right now, it is not going to give us snow, trying to give us rain. up through iowa, it

the first part of our storm is moving in, danielle niles is here with the timeline on when that snow will start. >> between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., the first round of our storm advancing into new york city now, it is mild enough it's plain rain to start before making the changeover. the burst of snow that comes into start here between four-8 p.m. interior. the closer you get to the coastline it is up to 1 inch. i see with some freezing rain and drizzle making that changeover across the interior through early on wednesday morning. there will be some slick spots especially outside of 495 for then we get into the warm-up, temperature spiked to near 60 on thursday it comes with heavy rain and damaging wind threats. our by our, we are going to take a piece by piece, through the afternoon between now and 5 p.m. you notice we are doing okay. but the snow will advance between five and 6 p.m. and fill in between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. and a lot of spots. we started with some rain, notice midnight we make that changeover just north and west of boston, but still some pockets of snow outside of 128, colde

. >> i just wish it would stay like that danielle niles is tracking rain for us coming in the next couple hours. >> coming in quickly and we already broke a record in worcester where it hit 57. record was 56 broke that from 19 # 6 and now the temperatures cooled n booston we are 6 # -- boston we are 63 degrees. record is 64. if we hit 65 that would break 136-year-old record. it's going to be a close call over the next hour because notice yes we hit the record in worcester but now we dipped to 53 as clouds moved in and the pretty quickly now and coming in side of 128. they will win out in boston within the next half-hour and the rain comes in behind it. leading edge of the rain just coming into western worcester county and there's downpours when you get west of palmer back up near amhurst but south bridge and worcester 40 minutes the rain will move in traveling along without 140 up in the north side of west boylston new happen sure. from new boston and manchester within the next 10 minutes. this rain will continue to fall apart a bit but between now and ely evening -- early evening there's

danielle niles joins us with the forecast. >> the moisture from the storm extends back to the gulf. so it's rain right now but as the colder air works in that's over. so the latest as of a few minutes ago is the winter storm watch has been expanded now to include boston and norfolk county and southern worcester itself. a.m. tomorrow. this will be upgraded to a warning by the time we get to later today. rest of the day today temperatures into the upper 40s this evening. a couple leftover showers and that will fill in as the steadier rain between 10p.m. and midnight tonight. rain right? temperatures still in the upper 30s to low 40s but colder air continues to work in by predawn tomorrow it's rain in southeastern massachusetts and snow back up in through southern new hampshire. at first, we are talking about roads being more wet than white when the snow comes down but as colder air spills in then the roads will get a little treacherous so snowfall rates 1 to 2 inches per hour possible at the height of this which comes during morning commute. by midday, a lot of the snow starting to wr

you can see the skies are gray out there, it may not be now, but danielle niles is chance for snow. this is going to be hit and >>> absolutely, the next couple of days you have a chance of a snowfall -- snow shower or flurry for the next few days. it is snowing now in baltimore, snow advancing into philadelphia. it's a piece of this disturbance that will be working overnight and especially for our wednesday. yes, the clouds are stuck in place, we have had light snow showers on a couple of floors from time to time. not amounting to a whole lot, but slick spots remain from yesterday snowfall, as well. melting today. 25 boston, right at the freezing mark in chatham, while the wind may not be nearly as strong as yesterday, just a creating a real feel that is running in the teens right now from wester it feels like 17 degrees in the city of boston right now. let's take you through hour by hour to show you what to expect for the rest of the day today. a stray flurry particularly on the cape, temperatures go through the 20s and into the teens and some of the suburbs there will be a lot of