Good evening atmospheric audience! Delayed but not denied both on storm update and winter roaring back in parts of the north east tomorrow. Apologies for not forecasting and covering the latest event. Haven’t missed many if any in the last 5 to 10 years of forecasting, both here at WeatherReMarks, to all the way back to my texting updates that my long-term followers may still remember. Unfortunately, all my and especially my wife’s free time has been off the radar taking care of our dog, who’s been under the weather for over a week. Been a ruff time for him but hopefully on the mend.
This storm has definitely caught a lot of the forecasters off guard, especially in the last 48 hours as the trend on this storm has clearly been pushed further south. The Greens and Whites and the rest of NH, not your storm. DC to southern New Jersey, not your storm. This is a narrow band that runs from New Hope to Newark, over to North Hampton, LI, up to New London to Nantucket, up to Newport and SE of Boston around Norton.
Precip begins overnight tonight ending mid day Tuesday. The morning commute will be crappy across central NJ and the 5 boroughs. Hudson Valley, no biggy. Even with being a few hours out, snow totals are still not etched in stone. Coastal sections along the Cape and LI will receive moderate to strong gusts as low deepens off shore. Snow will be the heavy cement type which could lead to isolated power outages.
Given it’s late, I’ll keep snow totals to the latest run seen above of the high resolution rapid refresh model (HRRR) which gives a decent depiction of this storms outcome.
While we are in a brief mild pattern, if you haven’t yet load up on salt, check your boiler, load up on firewood, dust off the gloves and buckle up folks. Many of the ingredients across the atmospheric gears as I’d like to call them are lining up for multiple hits and periods of below temperatures this week and right into the Ides of March, perhaps “white clovers”. Remember first flake to last flake gives you your total for the winter. Some of the greatest snowstorms in the Northeast have come in February and March as many of my longtime readers know I always bring up and show historical maps.
That all said, not going to deviate but reiterate my call. Respectively, the Ground Hog, given it’s my daughter’s bday, didn’t see its shadow hence an early spring, lol. Plus a stormy pattern with multiple threats of accumulating snow along the I 95 corridor up into New England is on the table. The next shot of snow is possible Thursday/Friday, then later this weekend, and the latter part of next week. Details coming. Buckle and bundle up folks. Yes, football season is over, pitchers and catchers and Masters commercials are teasing us, but old man winter is lurking. Screw the hog, and bring on the snow! Sniffing out a blockbuster. Time for bed, as weather never sleeps!