Will Natick get pummeled this weekend with more than a foot of snow or will it receive just a little snow with some rain mixed in?

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Watch from Saturday afternoon through Sunday afternoon. As of 11:30 a.m. Friday, the NWS said to expect less than a half inch of snow on Saturday, between a half and three quarters of an inch on Saturday night and a quarter to a half inch on Sunday. Rain will also be mixed in on Saturday night and Sunday.

Channel 7 meteorologist Pete Bouchard wrote on his weather blog:

Storm start-up still looks like Saturday afternoon. We'll still be able to get around and the amounts will be light through midnight - in fact, we may even mix from Boston to the South Shore. (Cape sees rain.)

After midnight, the storm will get a little meatier. Snow intensity will increase into Sunday morning.

Heavy snow through Sunday morning.

Tapering to flurries by mid afternoon on Sunday

There is a lot of water being thrown around in the atmosphere, and with marginally cold temps, this will result in a heavy, wet snow in many spots. Even in Worcester county, it will make for good snowballs and snowpeople. On the South Shore, it will cake to the trees and power lines - so there might be more power outages.

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