light freezing rain in southern berkshire county. the western part of the state. until noontime, freezing rain advisory in effect. all it takes is a tiny trace of freezing rain to create icy patches. more moisture to our south and big area of low pressure through the midwest. bringing areas of snow to the dakotas, back through iowa, and minnesota today. eventually some of that energy is going to work in our direction. so here we go hour by hour, clouds went out, showers arrive. midday early afternoon, part, but have the umbrella. i think the rain gets steadier by the evening hours. it will impact your evening commute. no heavy downpours. i think we get a little lull in the action. then showers redevelop along with the pockets of rain. as we head into the overnight hours on wednesday, rain continues into early thursday morning. there may be some snow flakes, wet ones that mix in on thursday. i don't expect any accumulation. areas of rain tonight, chilly and raw. high temperatures will manage to come into the upper 40s. accuweather seven-day, a windy day on thursday

watching the front come through the berkshires, which will dry out over the hills in berkshire and worcester county and southern vermont with the showers and worcester county at the very least. sun behind that with clouds breaking up through lunchtime tomorrow. the temperatures have been creeping upward, worcester at 40 degrees holding steady since i talked to you at 6:00. cloudy skies and southerly wind also allow that to creep upward hitting 50 by 11:00 in the morning. manchester, new hampshire, 42 degrees under cloudy skies with the southerly winds, they're light with the temperatures creeping up there during the morning and 50 by lunchtime. you can see it's a warm day and 47 on the vineyard, cloudy skies, no showers just yet, but there will be some in the 40s going to the 50s and 60 degrees by noontime tomorrow. a mild day, not mildest we'll see through this weekend. so tomorrow afternoon, the clouds break up with sunshine and tomorrow night, we do it bringing the clouds drifting off the coast with a disturbance swinging by to the north could have enough energy to kick off a few showers to the south. i don'

the snow longer before noontime 1:00 p.m., areas of rain, still pockets of sleet from berkshire county, into southern new hampshire, roads will be sicken those spots, leftover rain right into showers. sloppy 2 inches, little if anything, a lot of this, too, will be washed away. the greatest amounts outside of 4 the 95, 2-4 inches, whipping up after that. 4-8 inches possible. around 40 tomorrow as the temperatures rise, mostly cloudy 44 wednesday, thursday could be a morning shower, skies clear out, first day of the knew year could be a flurry or two and much colder only in the 30s this weekend. >> danielle, thank you very much. >>> traffic on the lighter side today between christmas and new year's holidays, we are expecting a lighter than normal week ahead. from the north this morning. expressway looking good at this hour, and west of town take a look at the mass pike right now, speed limit ride ing from the west. and quick alert if you are near the four river bridge, the bridge is scheduled to be up at 7:00-10:00 this morning. avoid the area at those sometimes. >>> a somber cleanup is under way in t

flurries in southern vermont hand northern berkshire county. they're pretty much evaporating. not much left to those. 53 boston. 52 lawrence and 56 on the vineyard and on martha stewart, and on nantucket tonight. that's mild hair especially for the middle of december. winds are gusting over 30 miles per hour. at least up to 30 in worcester. 28 in hyannis and 20 for you in norwood, so it feels cooler out there from time to time with those gusty winds. but it will be clearing overnight. waking up to sunshine in the morning, throughout southern and central new england. in fact, sunshine for much of new england. a few clouds drifting by from time to time. high temperatures tomorrow are going to be a little cooler than you saw out there today. temperatures will be 45 haverhill. 44 aimesbury and essex. back here, 46 and lowell, into southern new hampshire, temperatures will be in the 40's as well. worcester county, 44 gardener. air at 45 degrees and up here into essex county, 44 at rockport, 44 salisbury beach and 40's that i was referring to, seacoast, 43 degrees for a high tempera

berkshire county into the albany metro area now. broofl it was just for the connecticut river valley. could be extended farther north into southern vermont as well. bottom line is spotty icing. we'll talk more by the make sure you check with shiri in the morning. >>> seemingly swiping packages according to residents it's happening in south boston. it's a big time of year for this crime. you spoke with victims. yeah for sure. the problem with package deliveries being stolen is something that's very common around this time of year especially because of christmas many, many deliveries and we also found that many people have no idea how to handle it and they are wondering what is going to happen to those packages. >> reporter: it's the boston and look what's this what appears to be santa claus in reverse. twice this month residents tell fox 25 packages have been stolen from this condominium lobby on e street. both times the supposed thefts were caught on surveillance tape which show a man loading multiple bags with delivered boxes. >> even more surprised that someone was able to enter the building as quickly as they did. you don't bu

southern worcester county. concludes our tour of massachusetts, but look off to the west, there actually is a break in the action in the berkshires and western connecticut, that's going to continue to progress eastward. at the same time the heavy rain will move across cape cod. after midnight, this pushes on out of here, the last of the showers pushing on through and the next batch tomorrow. the front stalled offshore and more showers are likely to clip southeastern massachusetts during the day tomorrow as that front stalls there and wait for the rain to come up the coast. we'll see a couple of showers around tomorrow, north and west it gets colder saturday with some flurries and by sunday, the high temperature now expected to be about 43 degrees. at kickoff for the patriots, 40 degrees with sunny skies and a westerly breeze between 5 and 10 miles per hour, but again, getting mild, leading up to christmas eve and christmas day. >> the reporter: flooding issues so dangerous, drivers avoid this area whenever it rains. >> i'm not going to take the chance. >> the action city officials are taking along this major roadway to improve pu

8:00 p.m., taking it into the berkshires, heavy rains, albany new york and there's worcester with some of western new york county seeing the rain make their way in. southern vermont hand new hampshire, heavy rain. boston during the 10:00 p.m. hour especially and there you are in the south shore getting into it about the same time. not done with the rape yet after that first burst. plenty of shower activity behind it, more heavy rain during the 11:00 p.m. to midnight hour tonight and after midnight, sore we start to wane after 2:00 p.m. heavy showers back here that have to come on through. so after 4:00 p.m., shiri will be guiding you through the last of these showers coming through on the fox 25 morning newscast and finally drying behind those. the other problem tonight is the dense fog out there and in some spots, it's down to a quarter mile visibility, which to you is when you're driving, not seeing very far ahead of you. that dense fog advisory goes until midnight. that was updated by the national weather service about a half half-hour ago. norwood, 50 degrees. with the cloudy skies and winds coming in from the south, that temperature is going to be ri