Light/moderate snowfall event, Wednesday, January 16th, 2013

A weak wave of low pressure will be sliding just to the southeast of southern New England during the early AM hours of Wednesday.  As the wave of low pressure works close enough to the region we will see a period of precipitation with snow/sleet/freezing rain/rain all occurring across the region.  While this system is not expected to become all that strong there will be a small window where precipitation does fall rather heavily and this could lead to some isolated higher snowfall amounts.  Precipitation is expected to begin breaking out during the pre-dawn hours.  With the exception of the CT/RI/SE MA coasts precipitation is expected to begin as all snow.  As the morning hours go on and warming begins to occur both at the surface and through the lower levels of the atmosphere snowfall will gradually begin to transition to sleet/freezing rain/rain, especially across much of CT/RI and eastern MA.  The timeframe for heaviest precipitation should be from about 8 AM to about 1-2 PM in the afternoon before the precipitation begins to gradually slow down.