Majority of Light Snow Scoots South of New York City
02/15/24 – 10:48am
Good morning everyone. Things are relatively quiet across the land aside from more snow and rain out in the West. We have a few small features that we can discuss, but everything remains fairly light until the Gulf Coast gets more flooding rain & heavy storms this weekend.
Our first small disturbance will skip across upper parts of the Great Lake States, the interior Northeast, and into New England. This will touch off some light snow closer to the low pressure system, and some light rain or mix in the southern quadrant. After that, we’ll watch a clipper-like system scoot across the Mid-Atlantic, touching off a brief period of light to moderate snow in the DC area and the Chesapeake region late Friday into early Saturday.
Moisture will lag across the Gulf during this period, eventually spawning another wave of low pressure that’ll bring heavy rain across the Gulf states and into Florida by Sunday. This batch of moisture could contain embedded thunderstorms with isolated severe weather in the form of torrential rain, gusty winds, frequent lightning, large hail, and isolated tornadoes. The biggest risk to see some severe weather will be central and south Florida.