January 24th, 2025

 

Radar shows not a lot going on across the region. We have a frontal boundary over the region causing a few snow showers with most staying dry. But we still have those bands of lake effect falling downwind, a general 1-3 inches for those under these bands, with those closer to the lakes seeing perhaps 3-6 inches.

We have seen a fairly long stretch of arctic air. This Siberian air is starting to weaken and will slowly slide north and east today through the weekend. Over the Weekend, temperatures will become seasonal. We will have a clipper to our north accompanied with a cold front come through later Saturday into Sunday. This will bring snow showers to parts of the northern tier of Pennsylvania, as well as New York State, northern and central New England. those south of these areas should stay mostly dry. The front moving over the Great Lakes will kick off some lake effect snow for Saturday night into Sunday, a foot or two will be possible for some.

Temperatures will stay seasonal for most of next week. The overall pattern is looking to stay generally like we’re dealing with today. Clipper systems passing to our north, keeping the weather unsettled over northern areas and generally dry for southern areas. If the clippers track farther south, the snow would move south with it. The best chance of this happening, looks to be on Tuesday into Wednesday. We turn colder on Thursday. We will be watching a system approach later Thursday and Friday; could we see more in the way of widespread snow/mix from this in parts of the region? Maybe

The last couple of days, I’ve been laying out my overall thoughts for February. Showing how we still have plenty of cold air in the pattern, as well as chances for more cold air outbreaks. Depending on storm track and timing between the cold and warm incursions we could see more snow/mix events during February. So winter isn’t over just yet.