NYC Rainy Afternoon Overnight
Good morning everyone. Clouds are rolling in quickly now ahead of our elongated system that daisy-chains all the way out towards the Rockies. Meanwhile, we continue to struggle for any frozen precip, and tonight will be no different with a cold rain expected. In the long range, the start of March looks very active with some below average temps possible, but things might end quietly mid-month onward, giving us record/near record low snow amounts for the season.
SATELLITE
Look for increasing clouds this morning, with rain moving in by early/mid afternoon. We’ll have highs in the mid 40’s at best, giving us a raw, damp, and showery day. Overnight a cold rain falls with lows in the mid 30’s. If the rain gets heavy enough, don’t be surprised to see a few sleet pellets or wet snowflakes mixes in, but that’s the best we’ll do as a far as wintry precip.
Cold rain continues tomorrow morning, then clouds will stock around. Highs will be in the upper 40’s to low 50’s as much colder air lags behind our departing system.
WEATHER RADAR
Colder air filters in on Friday, with sunshine, low to mid 40’s, and windy conditions. It’ll be a very cold one overnight, even for late February standards, with lows in the upper teens to low 20’s.
We won’t recover much on Saturday with lows 30’s for highs, plus increasing clouds ahead of a weak system may touch off a few sprinkles or flurries during the afternoon.
That’ll be the best we’ll do with highs on Sunday returning to the upper 40’s to near 50 under partial sunshine.
In the long range we remain active and cold air pushing in behind each system, but as far as the eye can see, we don’t see anything major on the horizon. We have a few weaker opportunities to see some overrunning moisture and some light snow, mixed precip, or rain, but that’s really thin right now and confidence is low. Other than that, the larger systems continue to head into the Great Lakes, where parts of the upper Midwest and Ohio valley have seen record snowfalls this year in the opposite direction of the NYC area.
If things continue to not pan out for us, chances really drop mid-March as the pattern wants to relax a bit and bring us some typical March weather.
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