The forecast this weekend went pretty close to how we planned it. There was such a mess though (which was also forecast) that it was hard to get definitive details at times. There were snow totals, but there was a lot of melting already by 7-8am yesterday. Rain had moved into much of the region.
There was a good amount of snow northwest and north of Hampton Roads. Some of that also melted. However, a lot of it didn’t melt. There were patches of snow, melted snow, ice, black ice, and wet spots all over the area this morning as people headed out. My car was covered in ice, but my walks were ok. Luckily the ice wiped off with a swipe of my hand because the temperature was just above freezing.
Anyway, yesterday was wet and cold and messy all day. We had another wave of precipitation last night as a cold front slowly edged east to the coast.
There was also an area of low pressure nearby. Today the front will slowly push offshore. The low should move east as well.
We’ll have slow clearing this afternoon as high pressure edges east. There may be a couple of flurries later today, but there shouldn’t be much. I believe that will be from a weak mid-level disturbance. High temps will be in the mid-upper 30s. Wind chills will be in the 20s. I’m going with a high of 38, but the model shows 34. Yuck!
Winds will gust out of the north/northwest at 25mph at times.
Tonight we’ll have mostly clear skies and the wind will still be up a bit out of the north. So low temperatures will drop to the teens and single digits. Wind chills will be near zero in several places.
Tomorrow we’ll be cold and dry with mostly sunny skies. We’ll have a southwest breeze gusting to 20mph. However, we’ll have such a cold start to the day that we’ll only make it to the mid 30s by the mid-afternoon.
We’ll be cold and dry most of the week. There may be a few flurries on Wednesday. By next weekend there may be another big system affecting our region. The GFS and Euro both show some snow between late Saturday and Sunday.
At one point in the last couple of days it looked like we would get a mid-week storm, but that evaporated. So we’ll see if we actually get this next round of big snow. We’ll have updates through the week. Stay tuned…