Hits Keep Coming; Friday First Followed by Another Nor’easter Threat Sunday/Monday!

• Friday Storm (Hudson Valley to New England)
• Sunday into Monday Nor’easter Threat Growing
• Last Week of Feb / Early March (Cold Continues w Rumors of Storms)!

Good evening atmospheric audience! Well, it’s the winter that just won’t quit! Just like the stones curling towards the house, the atmosphere has a number systems sliding towards the Northeast. First, we have Friday’s event from Newburgh up to Newmarket up to Dover and down eastern Mass. Our next potential major Nor’easter (for the second week in a row) is on the table for Sunday night into Monday. It may get brushed aside or turn up hitting Alexandria to AC to Astoria over to Amagansett, up to Acton to Canton, MA. Details in a moment. Lastly, I’ll give a hint on what’s left of February into early March, temperature and storm wise.

Friday Storm (Hudson Valley to New England)

For NJ, the 5 Boroughs over to Long Island, this is mostly rain. For Hudson Valley, precip starts as snow between 6 – 8am, changing over to sleet / freezing rain between 11am and 1pm, tapering off between 4-7pm. Not a major event but look for 1-3″ from Newburgh up to New Paltz. Don’t be surprised to see another round of festive flakes across the Hudson Valley up to Oneonta Saturday afternoon into the evening hours. A dusting up to a couple inches as possible.

NH to SE Maine Coast

As this storm travels northeast later Friday, while not a major event, will still be plowable in New Hampshire over to Maine. Snow moves into SW NH between 11am – 1pm, reaching Salem to Concord between 2-3pm, on over to the Seacoast for rush-hour, between 3-5pm. As the low deepens offshore, coastal sections from Boston to Biddeford could potentially see higher totals due to marine influence (easterly fetch). Snow tapers off overnight Friday with some lingering squalls and flurries Saturday morning.

As far as accumulations, I like a general 4″ to 8″ from Keene over to Kennebunkport. That includes counties of Cheshire, Hillsborough, Rockingham, and Stratford, including Sullivan and Merrimack (3-6″ from Boston with a sharp cutoff near Canton).

Sunday into Monday Event

Similar yet different to last weekends near miss, this Sunday into Monday’s potential Nor’easter has more of a bite to it. At the very least, this storm will produce very strong wind gusts from the Delmarva (for those who didn’t know: Delaware, Maryland and Virginia) Peninsula up to Beantown. Huge waves and beach erosion are possible. Some models have this trending south and out to the sea.

Yet others have it deepening offshore and hugging the coast. In order for us to get a major dump along the I-95 corridor, we need a negative tilted trough, a strong Alaskan Ridge, and a closed off upper level low deepen off the Virginia coast. If we see a 975mb low dropped on the bull’s-eye benchmark (40°N latitude/ 70°W longitude) then DC to AC to NYC to ACK up to Boston could see major plowable shutdown storm with blizzard conditions. I do like what I see, but details forthcoming. The Greens, Whites and the Loaf likely out of reach IF this hits, but more details needed.

Last Week of Feb / Early March Update

While temps crank into 80s across SC and Florida Friday and just Florida on Saturday, another Arctic blast hits the East starting Sunday into Tuesday. Even down to the Sunshine State, lows could drop into the 30s to lower 40s next Tuesday and Wednesday morning (Falling Iguana Watch). How does single digits sound for New England next Wednesday?? The last week of February trending colder then normal again (see below):

Colder than normal temps continue across the Northeast as we open the first week of March. We even may have a couple of days in New England below zero with wind chills of minus 10° to 15°F!

Snowstorms aren’t done yet (I’m sniffing out the middle to end of next, and 1st week of March for trouble). Plus my long time followers know how I bring up the history of March storms. A topic for another day! That’s it for now. Drive safe around NH tomorrow afternoon into the evening. Conditions won’t be great. Go USA Men’s hockey and Jordan Stolz shot at a 4th medal! Off to bed, as weather never sleeps!