January 29, 2018 archive

Upper level energy along with a bit of lake effect enhancement will lead to scattered snow showers late morning through the afternoon and into the early evening. We also note high resolution data picking up on a thin lake effect snow band rotating into the northern ‘burbs after the evening rush.

Cold high pressure will settle overhead Tuesday and Wednesday and supply a return of dry times, complete with sunshine.  We’ll turn breezy in advance of our next storm system Wednesday.

That next system will come in the form of a cold front that will settle south across the state Thursday.  Light rain will overspread the region early in the day before mixing with and ending as light snow.  This still doesn’t appear to be a significant event for our region at this time.

What may be a bigger deal is the event that looms this weekend.  Clouds will increase during the day Saturday and a light mix of rain and snow should develop late Saturday night into Sunday morning before colder air wins out changing all precipitation over to snow.

We’re getting into a pattern where the northern stream of the jet will dominate over the next 7-10 days (at least). Models will likely struggle handling individual systems and we’ll have to remain on our toes for the potential of last minute shifts with systems in such a pattern.