Hardeep Kaur, of Coram, bundles up to go shoppping in...

Hardeep Kaur, of Coram, bundles up to go shoppping in Medford on Wednesday. Credit: Tom Lambui

Thursday and the weekend will bring chances for both rain and snow showers, the National Weather Service said, as temperatures over the weekend will be milder, then fall dramatically. 

Thursday's high will be 33 degrees, the weather service said, with wind chills making it feel like it's between 10 and 20 degrees. Thursday night, there is a 30% chance of snow showers and a low of 24.

"We're not expecting really any significant accumulation," said James Tomasini, a meteorologist at the weather service in Upton. "If we do get any accumulation, it would be a little dusting to maybe a couple tenths of an inch."

But as the holiday weekend approaches, the mercury will rise with a high of 39 degrees Friday and there will be abundant sunshine.

Saturday temperatures rise to a high of 46, with a 50% chance of rain, a low of 29, and a 40% chance of rain overnight. Sunday, the high will be 41 and there is a 30% chance of rain, and as the mercury falls, that will become a 40% chance for snow at night.

"A weak frontal system passes on Saturday, followed by another system late Sunday. An arctic high then builds toward the region during the beginning of next week," the weather service said in its forecast discussion Wednesday.

The region will be covered by that arctic air for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the presidential inauguration Monday. It will be mostly sunny but with a high of 28 degrees and a low of 10. 

Tuesday will be even colder, with a high of 20 and a low of 9, and Wednesday's high will be 25 degrees, the weather service said.

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