March 17th, 2025.

 

Happy St Patrick’s Day, today is the day everyone is Irish, but some of us are lucky enough to be Irish every day. I hope all y’all find a pot of gold!

 

 

Yesterday’s cold front is pushing east and the heaviest rain is currently over New England. Behind the front there are breezy winds and light showers. Temperatures behind the front will continue to fall today.

 

The storm brought a general 0.50 to 1.25 inches with localized amounts of 1.5 to near 3.0 inches. With the snow melt and recent mild temperatures areas with deep snowpack are dealing with flooding, The flood concern will continue as we move forward this week. There were several severe thunderstorm warnings issued that produced numerous hail and wind damage reports across western into central New York State and Pennsylvania.

High pressure is setting up overhead, this high pressure will be with us through Wednesday, the next couple of days look to be generally dry, with temperatures turning mild tomorrow, temperatures will be even warmer on Wednesday.

 

I’ve been talking about our next storm for over a week now.

Tuesday into Wednesday Low pressure will move out of Colorado into the central Plains. This is going to really deepen over Kansas. From here it will move north and east toward the Great Lakes. This one doesn’t look to be quite as strong as the last one, but there will be heavy snow on the northern and northwest side of the system, this is also going to produce another severe weather outbreak.  

Thursday will see the storm approach our region; Thursday will start out warm. Then a cold front will approach and move through. Rain will start across western Pennsylvania Thursday morning, the rain will continue to push across New York State and Pennsylvania through the afternoon, then make it into western New England Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey later in the day and evening, then into eastern New England Thursday night.  Winds will be gusty as the frontal boundary moves through.

The spring equinox arrives at 5:01am Thursday!

Cold air will be swinging in behind the cold front, changing rain over to a bit of snow.  There could be some minor accumulations over parts of New York State and northern into central New England, especially in the higher elevations.  Temperatures will be cooler for Friday into Saturday as high pressure builds in overhead.  Saturday night into Sunday will see a weak system roll through bringing some rain showers, along with a chance for some snow showers over New York State and northern and central New England.

The storm later this week, doesn’t look to be the last, there are signals that another one is going to form behind the one for later this week.