Monday, January 7, 2019

a pattern worth watching... (pm.07.jan.19)>

Monday's stats:

Low temp: 35.8ºF (2.1ºC)
High temp: 47.9ºF (8.8ºC)
Precipitation: none

It's still cold... perhaps a bit colder than normal for early January, but after the cloudy, rainy and snowy weekend we had, the sunshine today felt fantastic.  The very last precipitation associated with our recently-departed storm system occurred early Sunday evening, so we've had more than 24 hours now of drying out, and some significant melting of the heavy snowfall just above town.

A weak ripple in the upper atmosphere will pass overhead tomorrow (Tuesday) into tomorrow night, with an increase in clouds expected, along with a small chance of some brief/passing sprinkles or very light showers.  No big deal.  But now our eyes turn to a complicated scenario taking shape as the weekend approaches.  A developing storm system could bring in some light precipitation by very late Thursday night, with at least a moderate chance of significant rain and snow across our area between Friday and mid-day Sunday.  Models are all over the place with their prognostications... but the moral of the story is that we have potentially active weather coming up for the second weekend in a row.

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