Good morning folks! Most of you are probably reading this after already heading out the door to snow! I’m sure this past weekend’s taste of spring with widespread 60s to 70s across the Northeast lead many of you to say, winter is done! Yes, it’s March, with daylight hours lengthening and the sun higher in the sky, plus we gain an hour Saturday night (or lose an hour of sleep). Yet per my last post on 2/24, old man winter looks like he’ll be lingering throughout March to possibly April while battling increasing number of warm days. Starting with today, white gold returns to the tri-state area on up to southern New England, followed by seasonal temperatures Thursday and Friday, ending with a potential inland snowstorm this weekend.
For today’s event, wet heavy packing snow makes its way into the tri-state area from the SW traveling NE by daybreak and moving off the southern New England coast later this evening. This will be a general 1 to 4″, locally 4-6″ in higher elevations. Most accumulations will be on non-paved surfaces but some areas will see snow fall rates of 1 to 1.5″ per hour leading to covered roads creating slick conditions.
For NNJ, the 5 boroughs and Long Island: Rain, sleet to heavy wet snow with totals of 1-3″, 3-5″ in NWNJ, and parts of central LI. Precip begins between 6-8am, tapering off before sundown. Untreated roads, especially in the higher elevations may be slushy and slippery. CNJ to SNJ will see a mix to mostly rain, and rumble of thunder or 2.
Lower to Mid Hudson Valley, Westchester, CT, RI, MA: This is mainly a wet and heavy snow event, also beginning in the early to mid morning hours. Snow totals will range between 1-3″, with potentially 3-5″ in Hudson Valley, and higher elevations of W CT. Precip begins mid morning to early afternoon further east, tapering off after sundown into the evening hours.
Southern VT over to southern NH: Snow begins late morning to early afternoon, ending in the evening hours. This is not your storm with totals of a coating up to an inch or 2.
We get a reprieve Thursday with temps in the upper 40s across the Northeast and mid 50s on Friday across the tri-state (upper 40s further north). A stronger more powerful storm system is headed for the northeast on Saturday. My initial thoughts take accumulating snow further inland across PA, W NY, into the Greens and Whites, and away from the major cities along the I95 corridor (but you’re not out the woods just yet). Coastal sections could see strong wind gusts and windswept rain.
On the backend of storm, a brutal arctic blast blankets the Northeast Sunday morning with temps dropping into the teens (single digit wind chills)! That said, this needs to watched. While temps trend above average for next week, we haven’t seen the last of snow my friends. I’m tracking the period from the 20th to the 25th for the next round of winter weather, including the first week of April. That’s it for now. I’ll be back later this week with further details.