Snow Squall Warning, Rhode Island
SevereWhiteout conditions with near zero visibility associated with intense bursts of heavy snow and gusty winds leading to blowing snow, gusts up to 20 mph. Travel will become difficult and potentially dangerous within minutes.
Ended Thursday, January 1, 2026.
- Issued
- Expires
Places in this warning
How much
- Wind gusts
- Up to 20 mph Blowing snow on open roads
Map
- This warning
- Area drawn by the weather service
- Interstates
- US highways
- Moving east at 29 mph
Details from the National Weather Service
- What
- Whiteout conditions with near zero visibility associated with intense bursts of heavy snow and gusty winds leading to blowing snow. Wind gusts up to 20 mph.
- Squall now
- At 8:25 in the morning, a dangerous snow squall was located along a line extending from North Andover to near Somerville to Holbrook to Foxborough to Lincoln to Scituate to near West Greenwich, moving east at 30 mph.
- Where
- Eastern Windham County (Connecticut), Essex County (Massachusetts), Norfolk County (Massachusetts), Middlesex County (Massachusetts), Northwestern Bristol County (Massachusetts), Suffolk County (Massachusetts), Southeastern Worcester County (Massachusetts), Northwestern Plymouth County (Massachusetts), Northern Newport County (Rhode Island), Bristol County (Rhode Island), Northeastern Washington County (Rhode Island), Kent County (Rhode Island), Providence County (Rhode Island).
- When
- Until 9:15 in the morning.
- Impacts
- Travel will become difficult and potentially dangerous within minutes.
- Places named
- Boston, Providence, Lowell, Cambridge, Brockton, Quincy, Lynn, Fall River, Newton, Warwick, Cranston, Lawrence, Somerville, Pawtucket, Framingham, Haverhill, Waltham, Malden, Brookline, and Medford.
- Seen by
- Trained spotter in Millis, Massachusetts reports visibilities less than one-quarter mile and snowfall of of 1.5 inch in 30 minutes.
Updates
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Snow Squall Warning issued until Thursday, 9:15 in the morning. January 1, 2026