Storm Comes Up the Coast - Some Snow...

HUGE TROUGH DIGS INTO THE EAST...TURNS COLDER WITH SCATTERED SNOW.. FRONT END SNOW HITS QUICK FROM PA TO MAINE...


One shot of cold air comes in early in the week, leaves by midweek followed by a second shot for the end of the week. Each one of these cold shots will bring some sort of snow problems.

The trough digging into the East this weekend will bring cold weather all the way to the Gulf Coast. I think the southern extent of any snow problems will be into Tennessee, the Ozarks and the mountains of North Carolina. I will not be surprised that folks all the way in Mississippi and northern Alabama have some snow flurries by Monday.... As for the storm, the thunderstorms across the South today are the seedlings for the storm developing and coming up the East Coast. However, because the cold air is lagging behind the storm, and snow problems will be front ended from Pa., through N.Y., Vt., N.H. and Maine. What I mean by that, the rain comes north and overruns the cold air mass that is already in place. Many folks will have a 3- to 6-hour period of snow, which can be heavy for a bit before it changes over to rain. Places like Elmira, State College, Scranton, Albany, Burlington and Syracuse will have some snow before the changeover to rain. Behind the storm, the places that change to rain will have snow showers and snow showers may even get into the major I-95 cities on Monday into Tuesday.


In the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes, it just turns much colder with lake-effect snow developing and scattered snow showers developing. There might be a band of snow that develops across parts of northern Indiana into Michigan on Sunday night into Monday that can leave a quick 1-3 inches of snow. Monday overall is just a cold day with snow showers all the way into Tennessee where a coating of snow can fall in places like Nashville.


Longer range...

The next shot of cold air looks rather interesting. It's a case of getting too cold too fast and the rain changes to snow behind the front all the way from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic and New England coast. I don't expect there will be a lot of snow behind the front, but perhaps enough to whiten the ground over a large area of the country.

All the models suggest that next weekend and thereafter, the I-95 snow lovers might be rejoicing in a pair of snowstorms. That is just model speculation now, but the fact is, the weather will be cold and there's room for storms to develop.