One cold front moving through with another on the way!

The views have been dropping off lately, is there something I could be doing differently? 

We have that cold front dropping south across Pennsylvania and southern New England, ahead of the front there will be near to breaking record warmth, behind it’s still going to be fairly mild. We do have a few scattered showers ahead of and along the frontal boundary, with some isolated showers behind it. We will have high pressure set up for tomorrow, providing a dry and tranquil day.

We do have another system approaching out of the Midwest. A leading warm front will bring another surge of warmth for Thursday night into Friday morning; with the front there will be isolated rain showers and a chance for a few thunderstorms. But then the bottom drops out for Friday and the Weekend. A strong cold front will drop in for Friday.  As strengthening low pressure moves across the New York State tracking through the St. Lawrence Valley into Northern New England. Winds will turn out of the north and northwest.  With the cold front scattered rain showers and thunderstorms are likely, isolated storms could become strong to severe, with damaging wind gust the main threat.

Those with the greatest risk of seeing the severe storms will be over Southeast Pennsylvania, into New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware.

The Low pressure will move off the Coast where it will continue to deepen. It could end up reaching bombogenesis (bombing out) over the Canadian Maritimes. A storm bombs out when we see a pressure drop of 24+ millibars over a 24-hour period. If this happens, it could generate some very strong wind gust.  The biggest wind impacts will be along the immediate coast with wind gust up to 40–50 mph possible with 30–40 mph gust inland. The coldest air so far this season will drop in for Friday night and the Weekend, with temperatures running well below the long-term average.  This could be a big snowmaker for parts of eastern Canada. For our region most locations from will get rain and showers. But there will be snowflakes flying across parts of northern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

Friday night into Saturday morning, rain transitions to wet snow above 1,500 feet across the Tug Hill, Adirondacks, Green and White Mountains accumulations of 1-3 inches look likely.  The highest elevations in the mountains could see 3-6 inches of snow, with a rain and wet snow mix extending down into lower elevation valleys with no real accumulation.

 Saturday will be cold with gusty northwest winds.  Wind will be 10-20 mph with gust looking to be 20-40 mph. the morning will be showery, with rain showers clearing late morning into the afternoon.   These northwest winds will usher even colder air into the region. Those winds will make it feel even colder. While the cold temperatures won’t be good for fall colors, the gusty winds will likely bring down quite a few leaves still on the trees. Then high pressure will build in bringing plenty of sunshine for Saturday night and Sunday. Skies will clear leading to a very chilly night. High pressure looks to be in control for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday with temperatures slowly warming each day. The first half of next week looks to be mostly dry.

Have a great day!