From Blast Furnace to Snow & Ice Threat Next Week?
The atmosphere can be a very fickle thing and weather history is loaded with instances of 70 degrees one day and snow the next. It can and does happen. Right now what we have is purely in a speculative phase but we do seem to have something underway for early next week that at the very least means a cold rain and it could mean a period of ice or even snow for places not that far away from the coast. Considering how extreme the warmth has been this month, if it does happen it will be nothing short of miraculous! The change to colder begins Sunday night and continues through Tuesday.
Here is the set up. A large surface high will be building north of Lake Superior which forces a cold front through the northeast and into the middle Atlantic States. Cold air masses like this then to be shallow in nature so the bottom of the atmosphere can become pretty cold with warmer temperatures aloft. Such may be the case here.
What happens is the gfs takes a low into Southern Missouri and heads it into northern Ohio near Cleveland. The storm weakens over time as the high holds firm and forces a secondary low to form on the warm front. The key to all this is that high holding. We noted earlier that last night’s European model was a full 24 hours slower and took the high east to off the Northern New England coast which would basically argue for a cold but dry scenario into Tuesday with a cold rain to follow. Today’s run is still slower but seems to want to hold the high in longer so we will have to watch to see if the model is caving to the GFS idea which is a colder and further south solution with every run.
The GFS has a “You have got to be kidding” moment on its run with all that snow so far south into Northern New Jersey and even to the coast. The European has the cheap thrill look idea. With regards to the gfs, i think at this point even if you wanted to accept the model at complete face value you have to at least cut the amounts in half. None the less it is something to watch as we bake in 70s tomorrow, 60s Friday, 50s Saturday, 60s Friday and low 40s on Monday!!! Many model runs to go people.
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Here is the latest long range video on the overnight GFS model
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