Winter Weather Advisory Super Bowl Sunday 2 to 3 Inches of Snow Forecast
Winter Weather Advisory Super Bowl Sunday 2 to 3 Inches of Snow Forecast
Winter Weather Advisories are in effect for areas from Northeast Virginia to Southeastern New England. This include all of New Jersey and Southeastern Pennsylvania to NYC, the Hudson Valley, Southern Connecticut and Long Island. NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC are all included in the advisory while Boston lies outside of the advisory zone.
A general band of 2 to 3 inches is forecast and I think there could some locally higher amounts in areas where temperatures settle into the 20s during today. Snow is developing ahead of an upper trough that is swinging out of the Great Lakes into the Ohio Valley. Satellite and radar images show a northeast to southwest stretch of clouds and precipitation this morning all moving to the northeast. The precipitation is rather blotchy and uneven with regards to snow intensity and that should remain the case into midday.
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As the upper trough gets closer it will begin to enhance precipitation from a developing wave offshore. The wave isn’t particularly strong but it will enhance the snow again on the radars later this afternoon into tonight and that should at the very least get us to our snow forecast numbers. Key to accumulations today particularly on paved surfaces will be the temperature and where they are below 30 degrees. These areas will probably see the highest chance for road surface accumulations though I would think main roads should be okay. Intensity and temperature will drive that dynamic. Areas from NYC east especially Central and Eastern Long Island, Southeastern Connecticut eastward have a shot for some upside here as well as parts of North Coastal New Jersey.
Snow ends from west to east during the late evening hours 8-11pm, later in Southeast New England, sooner in Southeast and South Central Pennsylvania, and then as skies clear temperatures Monday morning will be in the teens. Monday will be sunny but very cold with highs just in the 20s.
Our cold winter pattern will be disappearing for at least the next 10 days or so as the flow from Canada is shut off and we start to see storms tracking to our northwest as the one on the map above for Thursday evening. This will be a major storm to the Great Lakes with heavy rain here and thunderstorms possible late Thursday and Thursday night.
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