Boston, MA weather
Today 55° / 55°
Today's Forecast
Partly cloudy, with a low around 55. South wind around 7 mph.
7-Day Outlook
Data from the National Weather Service
Last updated Tue, Sep 15, 11:09 PM UTC
Winter in Boston
Boston averages 49 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991–2020 climate normals - a regular snow place. Snow several times a winter, well-practised response. Closures happen but need a real storm.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 49 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 6 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Boston
The nearest radiosonde launch is Chatham, about 73 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.