An Arctic cold front is on the way. What about the snow? Click here to read and watch a video from CNN
about this coming outbreak of cold across the United States for late this week
that I have been talking about for quite some time now.
Today through Veteran’s Day will be quite nice with
gradually warming temperatures. The
highs today will be in the low 50’s, then the mid 50’s tomorrow and the low 60’s
on Tuesday.
Wednesday will be variably cloudy with a chance of showers
and highs around 60.
The Arctic cold front will move through late on Wednesday,
bringing much cooler air for Thursday with highs in the mid 40’s.
Two weak storm systems will approach on Thursday night,
bringing an increase in cloudiness late on Thursday and a chance for some snow
flurries/snow showers/light snow late on Thursday night into Friday
morning. How much these two disturbances
come together will determine whether we have a chance for only flurries or a
bit more than that.
After this storm potential passes on Friday morning things
will clear out with a high around 40.
Next Saturday should be quite nice but cold with lows in the
mid to upper 20’s and highs in the upper 30’s.
Next Sunday an interesting situation may start to develop in
the Eastern United States. This is the
storm potential that I have been talking about for more than a week now. A storm may be moving eastward along the Gulf
Coast in the Southern Jet Stream at the same time that a piece of energy is moving
southeastward from Canada in the Northern Jet Stream. The two system MAY merge over the
Southeastern United States late on Sunday.
If they merge (much as happened about two weeks ago in the Southeast
when there was record snow in South Carolina), it would bring heavy snow once
again to the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee,
Virginia and on to the northeast.
The next question would be the track that the storm takes. If the storm tracks inland and eventually
right over New Jersey, it would bring heavy snow to inland sections through
Central Pennsylvania and Central New York State and rain to coastal sections
and all of New Jersey. If it takes a
track toward Cape Hatteras and then northeast up the coast to a point about
50-100 miles off of New Jersey (as I have been thinking all along is the most
likely track), it would bring heavy snow into Washington D.C, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston.
If it takes a track to Cape Hatteras, but then further out to sea it
could miss nearly everyone north of Southern Virginia.
So, which will it be?
It is simply too early to tell.
Right now I give about equal odds to all three possibilities, so be sure
to check back for an update this evening.
Depending on the track of the storm the highs will be anywhere
from the low 30’s to the low 40’s on Sunday.
After this storm passes next Monday afternoon it will clear
out with a high around 40.
Next Tuesday and Wednesday will be mostly sunny but quite
cold with lows in the low to mid 20’s and highs around 40.
Next Thursday should start out mostly sunny but clouds will
likely increase in the afternoon with a chance of snow developing late at
night. The lows on Thursday should be in
the low to mid 20’s and the highs again around 40.
Next Friday there will be a chance of snow as a situation
similar to the one expected for this coming weekend is possible, but there will
be even colder air in place by that time with highs in the low 30’s.
Next Saturday should be nice but very cold behind the storm
with lows around 20 and highs in the low to mid 30’s.
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