Winter Weather Advisory for Brookline

BROOKLINE, MA — Brookline will get hit with snow, sleet, and freezing rain Friday night into Saturday.

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A winter weather advisory was issued for Friday at 11 p.m. through Saturday at noon. Rain will develop around midnight then change to snow and freezing rain late Saturday morning. Driving will be dangerous, according to the National Weather Service.

Here’s more from NWS:

• A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON EST SATURDAY...
• LOCATIONS...SOUTHWEST...SOUTH CENTRAL AND INTERIOR NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS.
• HAZARD TYPES...POCKETS OF FREEZING RAIN AND PERHAPS A BIT OF SNOW.
• ACCUMULATIONS...A TRACE TO LESS THAN ONE TENTH OF AN INCH OF ICE ACCRETION EXPECTED. A COATING TO 1 INCH OF SNOW ACCUMULATION IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE HIGHEST RISK FROM THE SOUTHERN WORCESTER HILLS INTO INTERIOR NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS.
• TIMING...AREAS OF RAIN AND POCKETS OF FREEZING RAIN ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP NEAR MIDNIGHT. TEMPERATURES SHOULD WARM ABOVE FREEZING IN MOST LOCATIONS BY DAYBREAK SATURDAY...BUT A FEW ISOLATED POCKETS OF FREEZING RAIN MAY PERSIST. PRECIPITATION MAY END AS A BRIEF PERIOD OF WET SNOW BEFORE COMING TO AN END BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
• IMPACTS...UNTREATED ROADS MAY BECOME SLIPPERY NEAR MIDNIGHT AND PERSIST INTO SATURDAY MORNING...WITH THE BEST CHANCE FOR THIS ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN.

Things will clear up Saturday, but more snow is on the way Monday, which is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

• Brookline’s extended forecast

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