NYC SNOW HOSTILE PATTERN CONTINUES
Good morning everyone and happy Saturday. We begin to settle into this mish-mosh pattern where we are cool/chilly, but not overtly cold. We’re also having a problem with our system paths, which is also why we’re not going very cold even though there’s very cold air available. For now, we remain relatively quiet, but we are watching a big storm brewing for late week into the weekend. That being said, it looks as of now that it won’t work out for us in terms of major snow for the NYC Metro Area.
SATELLITE
For today, we start out with cloudy skies, then we’ll see a few blue patches late. Expect highs in the low to mid 40’s, which doesn’t scream well-above-normal temps, but we are still 3-5 degrees above average. We’ll call it, “seasonably cool” since it’s most certainly not mild. Lows overnight will dip into the 25-30 range for a seasonably cold night.
Tomorrow, the sun returns temporarily, then we’ll increase the clouds later in the day. We’ll have highs in the upper 30’s to low 40’s for a “seasonably chilly” day. A weak area of energy, the one that was expected on Saturday several days ago, will pass by with a relative whimper. We could see some passing scattered light rain, light snow, or light mix overnight tomorrow night into very early Monday AM, but don’t expect any accumulation in NYC or Long Island.
WEATHER RADAR
The sun returns Monday afternoon and more low 40’s, then we have a full day’s sunshine both Tuesday and Wednesday with mid 40’s. Temps dip a bit on Thursday and back into the low 40’s, then we watch for our next big system.
As of now, this looks like another Great-Lakes-Runner, with another late energy transfer in the wrong spot, and the inability to pull down cold enough air for an all-snow event for NYC. So far, this is the story for our season, with most of the snow concentrated in the Great Lakes region and the Ohio Valley. Western/Central PA and NY aren’t doing too shabby either as far as snow, but the Hudson Valley and NYC Metro are hurting for snow lovers. That being said, these areas getting good snow (as well as the West Coast), need these systems very badly, so we’ll take it.
We’ll keep an eye on our next big one, which could cause some flooding and coastal flooding. We’ll also fine tune the timeline and any mixing or changeovers if that becomes a possibility.
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