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From Our friend DT: ABOUT NEW ENGLAND / NE PA/ SE interior NY/ nw NJ.... SUNDAY SNOWSTORM Currently there is major Trough in the jet stream is moving from the Plains into the Mississippi Valley. This system has developed LOW pressure In ARK and MO. This LOW pressure area will track northeast into OH and the eastern Great Lakes. As it does so most of the rain in the Midwest and the Ohio Valley will bypass the Middle Atlantic region except for a few showers Thursday night into Friday morning. Friday afternoon will see a lot of sunshine especially in VA MD and DEL as well as western NC. Readings are likely to go above 70° in many areas even as far north as Washington dc/ bal and into the mid and upper 60s into the Shenandoah Valley and near 60 in southwest VA and the mountains of western NC. BUT A second area of LOW pressure will develop in the Mississippi Delta on Friday night and Saturday morning. This well-organized LOW pressure area will intensify as it moves northeast up the Appalachian Mountains across northern GA, eastern TN and western NC by Saturday night. This will spread significant rain from GA to MD and across all of eastern TN, eastern KY and WV. The LOW pressure area will drive into OH by Sunday morning but then it will transfer its energy as it jumps over the mountains and a new LOW pressure area will develop off the VA/ MD coast . As the system moves away, it will pull in colder air and the rain could end as snow in western MD, the eastern panhandle of WV and the northwest 25% of VA for a few hours Sunday night or predawn hours of Monday. More significant snowfalls possible in northeast PA, southern NY and interior portions of southern New England

From DT: MAJOR WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS ABOUT FEB MAJOR CHANGES AT 500mb ACROSS NORTH AMERICA WILL END MILD PATTERN MUCH SOONER THAN INTIALLY THOUGHT

Snow cover is disappearing fast!

Pics from yesterday:

I'm sure there will be some winter weather to be had moving forward. But to what extent remains to be seen. And the clock keeps on ticking as we inch closer to spring. I'm not sure it's time to punt yet. We need some reassurance that there is hope for the big paralyzing snow to satisfy our hunger.

Seems like a lot of disappointment on here this morning. Might be time to change the game plan.

It has basically been below freezing for a week now. My temp got to 33 yesterday, so that ground is cold to be sure.

Will there be icy weather tomorrow? Don't the models have a tendency to under estimate the low level cold air trapped near the surface?

JB has alluded to possibility of "all hell breaking out" once we get to February 10th in the eastern US into March. Whether it does, remains to be seen. That goes against the the CPC's outlook.

Winters beauty this morning, at a cold 6 degrees.

5 this morning. A nice stretch of winter, if you like the impressive cold and some snow we experienced within the last week.

Imo the most worst part of winter is the wind. If there is basically no wind it would be more tolerable.

I had enough of this seemingly relentless wind.

I don't know whats going on with these geese. Yesterday afternoon I seen a few flocks headed south. And last night I heard a few flocks while I was outside headed south. Absolutely weird what is going on this season with the geese. My assumption is more cold is coming in a few weeks.

I picked up another inch of snow earlier this evening.

He seems a little out of touch imo. But I'm no meteorologist.

Give us an address...we'll see what we can arrange, to make your dreams come true.

DT forgot to post last call map. But I found it.

Have a little over an inch here. It was coming down really good the first hour after it started.

A balmy 26 here.

https://www.kcur.org/sports/2024-01-17/chiefs-playoffs-game-kansas-city-cold-weather-hypothermia-arrowhead-stadium

Do you see it even getting to 32 in Harrisburg tomorrow?

From JB this morning: The clipper could still bomb out near the coast Friday night, but it looks like a large area of 20:1 ratio snows from the northern Plains to the M-Atlantic. It is going to be followed by the coldest weather of the winter for the East, but not the Plains, as they will start to warm

I wonder if he is on to something or was he hitting the bottle to much. But i remember maybe 10 years or so ago. NWS had me getting on their original call of 2-4 something like that. But during the storm they had to issue a special weather statement and up the accumulation. I ended up with about 8 inches. It wasn't everywhere but there were a few counties involved where a heavy snowband set up and lasted for a few hours. Maybe it will happen again.