February 24th, 2025

 

The weekend wasn’t too bad, temperatures started to warm up, winds were fairly light with more in the way of sunshine than we’ve see of late. Outside of a few scattered snow showers most of us were dry.

Today will see that warming trend continue, as a warm front lifts through the region. But winds are going to pick up out of the southwest, ahead of a weak system, winds with gusty of 30 to 50 mph will be possible through this evening.  This system will bring a little rain/ mix/ and northern snow to the region. northern areas could see 2-3 inches, especially in the highest elevations.

A 2^nd weak system will move through on Tuesday. This system will have a very weak cool front with it, so temperatures shouldn’t be all that effected. Again, there will be a chance for scattered rain for most of us, with a few mix/snow showers for some of us, this will mainly be in the high elevations. Rain will be very light and snow will have very light accumulations.

Wednesday high pressure will be overhead. But for Wednesday night and Thursday a clipper system will be approaching the Great Lakes. This will be accompanied by a stronger cold front. This clipper will bring widespread rain, some mix/ and snow to the region. Northern areas should start out as snow; a few inches of snow will be possible across northern New York State and northern New England with higher accumulations in the higher elevations. Southern New York State, Pennsylvania, Middle Atlantic and southern New England will likely be dealing with a rain/mix.  Temperatures will warm south to north on Thursday changing snow over to a rain/mix for many northern areas, but snow could hang on for those higher elevations and far northern areas. The colder air will move in and change any rain over to a bit of snow/mix. There could be a few rumples of thunder when the cold front swings through.

Friday will be colder with lingering rain/snow showers, winds becoming breezy. For the weekend, we will have to watch another clipper for Saturday, depending on the exact track this could bring moderate to heavy snow for Pennsylvania, New York State and New England. Some snow could even make it into New York City. South of there this will likely be a rain/mix event. Plenty of time to watch this and see how it trends. The farther north the storm tracks the less snow/mix/rain will fall for those south of the track. Right now, I don’t think this will be a big deal, but we will see!

High pressure moves in for Sunday and Monday, so we should be mostly dry with plenty of sun but temperatures are going to be cold.

Drought

It's been awhile since I posted anything on drought conditions. 

Here is a look at the latest U.S. drought monitor released last Thursday. 

In spite of some minor improvements over the lase few weeks; a large part of the region is still seeing dry to drought conditions. It shows, 1% of the Northeast in extreme drought, 8% in severe drought, 22% in moderate drought, and 36% as abnormally dry compared to 1%, 11%, 23%, and 37%.

large parts of the region have seen snow this season,  Parts of New York State and New England have seen average snowfall, while the snowbelts have seen well above average snowfall. It has been a cold winter, so many areas have frozen ground and so any area under deep snowpack who sees melting snow will end up as runoff.

I’ve posted my spring outlook, so check it out!