Drab Dreary Pattern Continues Patches of Rain, A Little Ice or Snow Well Inland
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Drab Dreary Pattern Continues Patches of Rain, A Little Ice or Snow Well Inland
The next in a series of weak weather systems coming out of the west is pushing clouds eastward this evening and with those clouds there is some precipitation on the radar. Most of it is on the light snow and there is some snow in the mix on the northern edge of that precipitation shield. The NWS snow forecast is quite generous on this if you ask me. A coating to maybe an inch or two in elevated areas seems more appropriate but and inch seems like a foot these days even in areas where snow is common. Otherwise along the coastal plain it is rain again. Rainfall amounts of under a quarter of an inch is common and even under a tenth.
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Tonight’s rain will get suppressed to the south by morning and we will have clouds around most if not all day Wednesday. Temperatures will be in the mild upper 40s and lower 50s. Then we have yet another weak system for Wednesday night into Thursday.
This one passes more to the south across Southern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey southward, and it should be mostly done by Thursday morning. That leaves us with clouds and rather mild conditions Thursday with highs reaching the upper 40s inland and low and middle 50s everywhere else. Maybe we will see some sun through the clouds Friday ahead of the weekend and a stronger storm system headed our way.
Here we go for the weekend. New Years Day will bring deteriorating weather conditions across the East. Two lows are likely to come out of the Southern Plains. The first heads to Southern Ohio and eventually off the New England coast Sunday morning. Here is where it gets a little tricky in that the front from the first low will get hung up and a second wave swings across the south and then off the Mid Atlantic coast. The part that I’m having a hard time accepting right now is the notion that there will be a change to snow at the end. My own view is that the second wave of the GFS is overdone and will exit flatter and further east leaving cold air coming in too late and with little moisture to work on.
Next week starts cold for Monday and Tuesday and then we warm up yet again Wednesday through Friday as the trough drops back into the west and the trough in the east lifts out and the Southeast US ridge returns yet again. I said it three weeks ago and I will say it again. This pattern has not changed, shows no signs of changing, and snow of any substance will remain elusive. The pattern could actually shift to an even warmer one if a January thaw pattern sets up mid month and beyond.
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