Good afternoon weather fans! Ok, let’s get right into our next storm for the Northeast. This will not be last Monday’s long duration Nor’easter that dumped 17.2” in the Park, up to 32” in Andover and Lake Hopatcong, NJ and a wide swath of 20-25” measurements across NJ, PA, CT, and MA (12-18” further North in VT, NH and ME). As alluded to in my post last night, this storm will hit the I95 corridor rather quickly and spread a more narrow path of snow. Typically, these types of storms make it more challenging on pinning down the sharp gradients, but I’ll cover that below. This narrow band that is under a Winter Storm Warning extends all the way south to north from Blairsville, GA to Asheville, NC to Charlottesville, VA to Hyattsville, MD to Morrisville, PA to Somerville, NJ to Bronxville, NY to Montville, CT to Fiskeville, RI to Osterville, MA. There have been subtle SE jogs on the recent runs. But in the end, the tri-state area can expect snow to begin Sunday morning becoming heavier into the late morning to early part of the afternoon, and ending before kickoff (snow tapers off during game in SE New England). I’m leaning on the conservative side on totals (given speed and its SE track) vs some models printing out higher accumulations.
TIMING AND AMOUNTS
DC/Balt: 3am to 5am, slushy 1-3”
Philly: 5am to 7am, 2-4”
CNJ (between I95 and I78/202/287: 6am to 8am, 3-5”
NNJ (NW of 202/287), 6-9am, 2-4”
NYC: 7-9am, 3-5” (mixing will keep totals down)
LI: 7-9am, 3-6” (higher amounts further east)
Lower Hudson Valley: 8-10am, 1-4” (sharp cutoff near Route 6 up towards I84)
Eastern Mass: 10-12pm, 4-8” Cape, 1-4” Boston
Seacoast, NH: 11am-1pm, 1-4”
I’ll be back shortly to share my thoughts about what’s on the table over the next couple of weeks. My thoughts haven’t changed one bit on the bitter cold which starts its first leg down the proverbial mercury ladder to the frozen tundra the following week, as well as the bowling ball of storms headed our way. This includes a rain/ice/snow system Monday night into Tuesday (all snow in New England), another icy mix storm the end of the work week and the V-Day weekend major potential storm. It doesn’t end there with a number of threats the week of the 15th.
Again, thanks so much for reading and following, and welcome to my new followers in the past few weeks! Hold on and buckle up because Old Man Winter is angry with a ton of wild weather events headed our way. That’s it for now and remember, weather never sleeps!
