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Winter Storm Watches in Massachusetts, 2008

20 winter storm watches in 2008. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
20
Busiest month
February9 winter storm watches
Busiest day
January 31, 20082 winter storm watches

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 6:54 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchBOXBarnstable, Dukes, Nantucket10 hr
Jan 27, 5:19 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchBOXBristol, Norfolk, Plymouth7 hr
Jan 31, 1:51 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchALYBerkshire15 hr
Jan 31, 4:28 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchBOXFranklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester12 hr
Feb 5, 3:10 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchALYBerkshire14 hr
Feb 5, 3:31 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchBOXFranklin, Middlesex, Worcester13 hr
Feb 11, 4:41 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchALYBerkshire24 hr
Feb 11, 3:47 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchBOXEssex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester13 hr
Feb 21, 11:46 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchBOXBristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more4 hr
Feb 25, 3:43 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchBOXFranklin, Hampden, Hampshire25 hr
Feb 25, 3:59 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchALYBerkshire24 hr
Feb 28, 3:46 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchALYBerkshire13 hr
Feb 28, 4:18 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchBOXEssex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester13 hr
Dec 9, 4:04 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchALYBerkshire24 hr
Dec 9, 4:24 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchBOXFranklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester24 hr
Dec 17, 3:07 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchBOXBarnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more24 hr
Dec 17, 3:19 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchALYBerkshire23 hr
Dec 19, 4:22 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchALYBerkshire21 hr
Dec 19, 4:50 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchBOXEssex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester24 hr
Dec 30, 11:40 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchBOXBarnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 6 more5 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 31, 20082winter storm watches
  2. February 5, 20082winter storm watches
  3. February 11, 20082winter storm watches
  4. February 25, 20082winter storm watches
  5. February 28, 20082winter storm watches
  6. December 9, 20082winter storm watches
  7. December 17, 20082winter storm watches
  8. December 19, 20082winter storm watches
  9. January 26, 20081winter storm watches
  10. January 27, 20081winter storm watches
  11. February 21, 20081winter storm watches
  12. December 30, 20081winter storm watches

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.