Boston bracing as meteorologists track another potential weekend winter storm

After digging out from one of the heaviest snowfalls in years, Massachusetts residents might not get much of a break. Meteorologists are keeping a close eye on another system that could bring fresh snow to the region this weekend — though it’s still too early to say exactly how it will play out.

Last week’s storm dropped more than 19 inches of snow on Boston and more than 20 inches in Worcester, marking one of the city’s top‑ten snow events on record. Now forecasters say conditions are aligning for yet another coastal storm that could brush, or even blanket, New England just days later.

According to WBZ-TV weather producer Terry Eliasen, the next storm is still “several days away from even forming.” Right now it’s just a collection of weak disturbances scattered from the Pacific into Canada. For a major impact here, he said, the pieces would have to merge “like a complex jigsaw puzzle.” The developing system could strengthen rapidly near the southeastern U.S. late Friday before tracking up the coast, a setup meteorologists sometimes refer to as bombogenesis — rapid intensification of a storm.

The National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center noted that the potential is “increasing for another significant winter storm to impact the eastern United States” by the weekend. NBC10 Boston and FOX Weather have both said the pattern could allow a Gulf of Mexico storm to ride up the coast toward southern New England sometime late Sunday into Monday.

At WCVB, StormTeam 5 meteorologists said computer models have been shifting back and forth — one track pushing the system out to sea, another bringing it closer to shore. “That scenario has been changing,” one forecaster noted Monday night. “We’ve been watching the models go this way and then that way until they finally settle on a solution.”

If the storm hugs the coast, forecasters say it could mean heavier snow and strong winds for eastern Massachusetts. A more offshore track would result in lighter impacts or mainly coastal flurries. For now, the message from meteorologists across the region is to stay tuned.

“We’re about ten inches above normal snowfall for this time of year,” said WCVB meteorologists, noting that 2026 is shaping up to be the snowiest winter Boston has seen since 2015.

While it’s too soon to predict totals, one thing is certain: Bay Staters are keeping their shovels handy, just in case this winter has more surprises in store.