Category: Arctic Cold

Highlights:

• Rain develops today
• Frigid air awaits
• Tracking snow makers

Turning Wet Today; Big Cold Coming…It’s a mild start to our Friday, but overcast skies will give way to developing showers late morning, continuing through the afternoon hours.  Colder air will push in tonight and may lead to a transition to wet snow before precipitation ends.  Forecast models are struggling on handling the arrival of cold air and this will once again be a “now-cast” type situation as we go into the evening hours.  When compared to last Saturday night’s event, this isn’t nearly as significant from a total precipitation standpoint, including snow totals.

Saturday will be a day where we’re in between storm systems.  Morning flurries will be possible, but we continue to eye an arctic wave pushing into the area Sunday.  Moisture will be limited, but with very cold air moving in, it won’t take much to “fluff up” a quick inch.  The bigger deal will be strong and gusty winds and bitterly cold air.

Forecast models have really been struggling as of late and our overall confidence on how they handle things the middle of next week is quite low at the moment.  That said, Wednesday-Thursday will require our attention moving forward for the prospects of accumulating snow.  Another storm awaits late next week…