Saturday, February 8th, 2014 - Morning Weather Discussion

We will have a chance of a snow shower this afternoon, followed by snow developing tomorrow afternoon and continuing through the night.  The snow should accumulate to 1-4 inches throughout our area before ending early in the morning on Monday.  It will then get quite cold on Tuesday with lows dropping into the low to mid single digits. 

On Tuesday a storm will start developing in the Gulf of Mexico, bringing heavy snow and ice to areas of the Deep South from Northeast Georgia through Northern and Western South Carolina, and throughout all of North Carolina.  Fortunately, this run of the model has more in the way of snow for these areas than the prior run and less of the freezing rain; however, there will likely be a significant accumulation of both in the area I just mentioned.  This could cause some very significant problems as 5-10 inches of snow could fall, followed by a half to two thirds of an inch of ice.

The storm will then start moving north, up the coast, on Wednesday, bringing heavy snow to inland areas of Virginia, Maryland (including Washington D.C. and Baltimore), Eastern Pennsylvania (including Philadelphia), New Jersey (excluding extreme Southeastern Sections near Cape May and Atlantic City), extreme Southeastern New York State (including New York City and Long Island), and all of New England (excluding Cape Cod, Massachusetts).  The areas excluded will most likely receive mainly rain from this storm.  The snow potential for this storm is currently around 4-8 inches in these areas.  In the Northern New Jersey and New York City area the snow will fall from Wednesday night through Thursday morning. 

After that storm passes we will have briefly warmer temperatures next Friday with a high around 40, followed by another chance of snow next Saturday afternoon through Sunday morning. 

Then, it appears that this weather pattern may break, bringing us chances for warmer weather and rain for the following week.