The snow arrives between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Thursday from southwest to northeast. It will only last a few hours in most areas (longer the farther north you live). The majority of the snow accumulation will be over by early afternoon.

“It’s certainly possible,” agreed Zack Cooper, meteorologist with the National Weather Service Office in Mount Holly, which has issued a winter weather advisory from 12:01 to 10 a.m. Thursday for the entire region for up to an inch of snow and ice and 0.1 inches of freezing rain.

Weather Advisory Thursday

Areas west of I-495 to Pittsfield will see more snow than any other precipitation type. New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine will welcome all snow from this system.

Deficits for the season are around 15 inches in Portland and 20 inches in Caribou. The weather pattern is shifting though, and it’s turning more active. For much of January, the jet stream was far to our south,

Much of January, the jet stream was far to our south, delivering record snow to parts of the Gulf Coast and Southeast. Most of the snow we've seen recently has been from nuisance fronts and clippers,