February 9th, 2025

 

The week ahead

 

The latest storm is pulling away.

Snow across Maine is ending, but there could be a few snow showers remaining during the early afternoon. Generally, snow amounts were around the forecasted amounts; but some areas did see lesser amounts due to that warm nose allowing warm air aloft which resulted in higher amounts of sleet, which cut down of the snowfall amounts.  Later today lake effect snow will start up southeast of Lake Ontario, the band will stay generally in this area tonight into tomorrow afternoon, before shifting north and dissipating, those under the most persistent parts of the band closer to the lake will likely see 5-12 inches of lake snow, with those outside of the main band seeing 1-5 inches of snow. For the rest of the region Monday into much of Tuesday will be will be tranquil 

 This week is going to be another very active one!

Tomorrow is going to see a system develop over Kansas and Missouri.  Gulf moisture will be streaming north running into cold air dropping from the north.

On Tuesday this is going to push east heading for the Coast. Then late Tuesday into Wednesday it will continue out to sea, without hooking north On the northern side of this, along and south of the Mason Dixon Line and Southeast Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and the Delmarva could see heavy snow. It is possible some Light snow could make it as far north as Harrisburg and Allentown

Right on its heels we will see another system coming out of the southern Plains, this one is going to be have more in the way of a complex setup.  Low Pressure will move toward the Ohio Valley and Lower Great Lakes. There looks to be cold air damming that will set up east of the Appalachians. This will allow for Sleet, freezing rain, and snow (heavy for some) on the northern side of this system. Sleet and freezing rain could be much more widespread across Pennsylvania, Northern New Jersey, southern New York State and Southern New England than the storms last week. Pennsylvania and the rest of the Middle Atlantic could start out as snow, before a change over to sleet and freezing rain, at some point this would likely change to plain rain. The farther north you are the greater your chance of staying all snow. Coastal New England could see a few inches then it could change to a mix as the system departs.

Behind the midweek storm, we look to see another one for the Weekend. This one is going to bring rain, sleet, freezing rain and snow to the Northeast and Northern Middle Atlantic. Those in northern New York State and Northern New England have missed out on the heavy snow during last weeks storms. But with the 2^nd and 3^rd storms trending farther north and into the Great Lakes, these northern areas could cash in on very heavy snow amounts.

With all of these storms remember, Ice accretion of ¼” or higher can lead to tree branches and or power lines breaking leading to power outages.

This parade of storms pattern looks to continue for Presidents Day week. These storms look to start in the south and move north and east heading in our direction. Each of these will bring the combination of rain, mix and snow to parts of the region.