Heavy Snow in Massachusetts, January 25 to 27, 2026

Name: Heavy Snow in Massachusetts, January 25 to 27, 2026
Start: 2026-01-25T08:00
End: 2026-01-27T22:00
Location: Massachusetts

January 25 to 27, 2026 · NWS BOX · 22 events in 22 counties and zones

S. bringing a plume of deep moisture over top of an arctic airmass which brough 1-2 feet of snow to southern New England Sunday through Tuesday morning.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 22 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 22

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS BOX wrote it up.

A low pressure moved through the eastern U.S. bringing a plume of deep moisture over top of an arctic airmass which brough 1-2 feet of snow to southern New England Sunday through Tuesday morning. The biggest total was 27 inches in Gloucester, MA.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Boston/Norton, MA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 25, 6:26 AM EST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 25, 6:26 AM EST, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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The radar

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Event by event

22 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Eastern Franklin

When: January 25, 8:00 AM EST to January 26, 10:00 PM EST
Where: Eastern Franklin forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.583, -72.592 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 12 to 15 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 16.7 inches in Orange and 15 inches in Turners Falls.

Heavy Snow, Dukes

When: January 25, 9:00 AM EST to January 27, 3:00 AM EST
Where: Dukes forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 41.389, -70.699 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 11 to 15 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 13.1 inches in West Tisbur and 13 inches in Vineyard Haven.

Heavy Snow, Western Franklin

When: January 25, 9:00 AM EST to January 27, 10:00 PM EST
Where: Western Franklin forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.583, -72.592 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 12 to 18 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 17.8 inches in East Hawley and 17 inches in Ashfield.

Heavy Snow, Eastern Hampden

When: January 25, 9:00 AM EST to January 26, 10:00 PM EST
Where: Eastern Hampden forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.135, -72.632 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 14 to 20 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 21.5 inches in Westfield and 20 inches in Holland.

Heavy Snow, Western Hampden

When: January 25, 9:00 AM EST to January 26, 10:00 PM EST
Where: Western Hampden forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.135, -72.632 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 17 to 20 inches of snow fell with one of the highest being 19.9 inches in Russell.

Heavy Snow, Eastern Hampshire

When: January 25, 9:00 AM EST to January 26, 10:00 PM EST
Where: Eastern Hampshire forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.340, -72.664 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 12 to 15 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 17 inches in Amherst and 15.6 inches in Easthampton.

Heavy Snow, Western Hampshire

When: January 25, 9:00 AM EST to January 26, 10:00 PM EST
Where: Western Hampshire forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.340, -72.664 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 13 to 17 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 16 inches in Florence and 13.8 inches in Williamsburg.

Heavy Snow, Eastern Norfolk

When: January 25, 9:00 AM EST to January 27, 3:00 AM EST
Where: Eastern Norfolk forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.171, -71.184 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally18 to 13 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 25.3 inches at Blue Hill Observatory in Milton and 22 inches in Milton.

Heavy Snow, Southern Worcester

When: January 25, 9:00 AM EST to January 26, 12:00 AM EST
Where: Southern Worcester forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.351, -71.908 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 14 to 18 inches of snow fell with one of the highest being 22.4 inches at Worcester Airport.

Heavy Snow, Northern Bristol

When: January 25, 10:00 AM EST to January 27, 2:00 AM EST
Where: Northern Bristol forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 41.757, -71.088 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 15 to 17 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 18 inches in Mansfield and 17.5 inches in Taunton.

Heavy Snow, Southern Bristol

When: January 25, 10:00 AM EST to January 27, 2:00 AM EST
Where: Southern Bristol forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 41.757, -71.088 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 13 to 16 inches of snow fell with one of the highest being 17.3 inches in Acushnet.

Heavy Snow, Western Middlesex

When: January 25, 10:00 AM EST to January 27, 12:00 AM EST
Where: Western Middlesex forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.486, -71.392 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 15 to 18 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 24 inches in Waltham and 23.4 inches in Lexington.

Heavy Snow, Western Norfolk

When: January 25, 10:00 AM EST to January 27, 2:00 AM EST
Where: Western Norfolk forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.171, -71.184 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 15 to 18 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 22 inches in Randolph and 19.7 inches in Norwood.

Heavy Snow, Suffolk

When: January 25, 10:00 AM EST to January 27, 4:00 AM EST
Where: Suffolk forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.264, -71.125 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 18 to 23 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 23.2 inches at Logan Airport and 22.1 inches in West Roxbury.

Heavy Snow, Northern Worcester

When: January 25, 10:00 AM EST to January 27, 12:00 AM EST
Where: Northern Worcester forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.351, -71.908 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 15 to 25 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 25.2 inches in Sterling and 24.8 inches in Leicester.

Heavy Snow, Barnstable

When: January 25, 11:00 AM EST to January 27, 4:00 AM EST
Where: Barnstable forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 41.684, -70.274 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally11 to 15 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 17 inches in Wellfleet and 15.5 inches in Barnstable.

Heavy Snow, Eastern Essex

When: January 25, 11:00 AM EST to January 27, 5:00 AM EST
Where: Eastern Essex forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.639, -70.868 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 18 to 27 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 27 inches in Gloucester (biggest of the storm anywhere in southern New England) and 26 inches in Ipswich.

Heavy Snow, Western Essex

When: January 25, 11:00 AM EST to January 27, 5:00 AM EST
Where: Western Essex forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.639, -70.868 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 18 to 21 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 23.5 inches in both Middleton and Groveland.

Heavy Snow, Southeast Middlesex

When: January 25, 11:00 AM EST to January 27, 3:00 AM EST
Where: Southeast Middlesex forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.486, -71.392 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 16 to 22 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 24 inches in Waltham and 23.4 inches in Lexington.

Heavy Snow, Eastern Plymouth

When: January 25, 11:00 AM EST to January 27, 5:00 AM EST
Where: Eastern Plymouth forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.079, -70.960 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 15 to 20 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 24 inches in Kingston and 19.7 inches in Marshfield.

Heavy Snow, Western Plymouth

When: January 25, 11:00 AM EST to January 27, 5:00 AM EST
Where: Western Plymouth forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 41.987, -70.737 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 17 to 19 inches of snow fell with some of the highest being 23.1 inches in Pembroke and 17.5 inches in Middleborough.

Heavy Snow, Northwest Middlesex County

When: January 25, 11:00 AM EST to January 27, 12:00 AM EST
Where: Northwest Middlesex County forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 42.486, -71.392 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Generally 17 to 21 inches of snow fell.

What these are

Heavy Snow: Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Massachusetts in 2026 Every state in 2026 This day in weather history Warnings in Massachusetts, January 2026

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1302884, 1302875, 1302887, 1302913, 1302916, 1302927, 1302932, 1302953, 1302961, 1302859, 1302863, 1302940, 1302945, 1302958, 1302959, 1302857, 1302878, 1302881, 1302942, 1302956, 1302957, 1302960.