Snowfall forecast map through 7 a.m. (ET) on Feb. 25, 2023. Source: National Weather Service Forecast Offices of the Northeast

Guide to Snowfall Forecast Maps for New England, With Other Snow Information and Photos

8 min readFeb 22, 2023

After a disappointing cold season so far in much of New England—at least for snow lovers—quite a bit of snow is expected soon in much of the region.

And once again, it looks like southern New England will not see significant snowfall.

From late today into tomorrow, “a swath of 4–8 inches of snow is forecast from Upstate New York into central New England, with locally higher totals over a foot for the higher elevations including the Adirondacks and the Green and White Mountains.” That’s according to a forecast discussion by the Weather Prediction Center at the National Weather Service.

A winter weather advisory is in effect from 7 p.m. tonight to 7 p.m. tomorrow for where I live in Grafton County, New Hampshire. The forecast called for between 2 and 5 inches of snow, up to an inch of sleet and “ice accumulations around a light glaze.”

Here are links to snowfall forecast maps and snow-related websites that will help you stay abreast of the latest forecasts and information:

— National Weather Service Northeast River Forecast Center Snow Information Page. This page has snowfall forecast maps for the Northeast and for New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York (I’m from typically snowy Rochester, BTW).

— Northeast River Forecast Center Self Briefing Page — Cold Season, plus on Twitter and Facebook.

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— Visit the websites of your local National Weather Service (NWS) forecast office and other offices and look for this image to find Winter Weather Forecasts, including snowfall and ice accumulation forecasts.

— Gray/Portland Maine NWS office Winter Weather Forecasts page. The office, which covers New Hampshire and western Maine, regularly posts forecast-related and other information on Twitter and Facebook.

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— Caribou Maine NWS office Winter Weather Forecasts page. The office covers the rest of Maine and is on Twitter and Facebook.

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— Burlington Vermont NWS office Winter Weather Forecasts page. The office, which covers most of Vermont and northern New York state, is on Twitter and Facebook.

— Boston/Norton Massachusetts NWS office Winter Weather Forecasts page. The office, which covers most of Massachusetts, much of Connecticut and all of Rhode Island, is on Twitter and Facebook.

— Albany New York NWS office Winter Weather Forecasts page. The office, which covers parts of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York state, is on Twitter and Facebook.

— New York NY NWS office Winter Weather Forecasts page. The office, which covers parts of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey (where I lived for 40 years), is on Twitter and Facebook. BTW, I covered severe weather when I was an environmental writer at the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey.

— NWS Weather Prediction Center Winter Weather Forecasts page, plus Storm Summaries. The center on Twitter and Facebook.

— NWS National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, “NOAA’s Source for Snow Information.” This website has a page where you can get a seasonal snowfall map for the lower 48 states.

— NWS National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center’s Regional Snow Analyses: Northeast.

— NWS National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center: U.S. and Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover.

— Rutgers Global Snow Lab, which covers snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere (FYI, I was a science writer/communicator/media relations guy at Rutgers University in New Jersey from 2016 to 2021).

— NWS National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center: Interactive Snow Information.

— National Centers for Environmental Information Snow and Ice information, including Snowfall Extremes in the 50 states, the Regional Snowfall Index and Historic Storms.

— Northeast Regional Climate Center has snowfall and snowfall departure from average maps, plus on Twitter and Facebook.

— Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire: Current Summit Conditions, Twitter and Facebook.

— Midwestern Regional Climate Center Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index.

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