Saturday, February 24, 2007

Significant Winter Storm for tommorow

While the Tv mets were calling for a warm weekend, i started honking Wednesday for a possible storm for Sunday. Looks like the storm is going to win out. A moist system with enough cold air to cause problems will be the focus starting early sunday morning and continuing throughout the day. Look for snow to start and accumulate maybe 1-2 inches before changing over to sleet and freezing rain. Areas N and W of DC will stay all frozen while DC south and east goes from Ice to rain. The more north you are like Northern Maryland,Central PA,Allentown...the more snow you will get. This storm wont be as bad as the Valentines Day storm because there is less moisture and more importantly..instead of temps being 21 with sleet, it will be 31. But if we get alot of freezing rain, there could be a significant accumulation on trees and power lines and it will cause problem. The storm should be out of here by Monday Morning. The really hard part to forecast is the upper level temps. If they stay cold enough...we could see more snow and less ice which would be the best case scenario. If i have any updates, Ill update tonight. Another Big Winter storm could approach in early March. Stay Tuned!

1 comment:

midatlanticweather said...

JI,

Good early call. I too started seeing the damming signiture showing up on Models Wednesday. I alerted the several Plowers I knew that there may be something coming, but failed to update my Blog! Good call on your part!

End of next week still has some things that look interesting! I am interested in the NAO's affect on a colder scenario