Doug Simonian

VIDEO Analysis: What to Look For in Tracking Next Week’s Potential Snow

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Good evening! Now that the latest storm has cleared the area, we can now turn our focus to next week’s potential snow event. While some models still show a potentially impressive coastal low pressure developing, and thus giving the area a significant accumulating snow, there have been plenty of models that are backing off.

In this video, we explain why these models are backing off, and why they may be correct in doing so. But we also analyze what we’d like to see evolve in the atmosphere to bring the snowier solutions back on the table, and how we are still pretty close to returning to a snowier solutions on many of the model runs.

Miguel Pierre

Northeast Storm With Heavy Rainfall and Wintry Mix into Tonight

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Happy Friday! The rest of today may not in fact be so “happy,” as a large storm system impacts the Northeast, making the day quite soggy. Periods of rain will continue, becoming heavy at times for the rest of this afternoon and into tonight. Warm-air advection will continue to support very mild temperatures and high dewpoints. This will continue to cause some areas of patchy fog to linger into this afternoon, as the ground may remains colder. In fact, some record high temperatures could be broken by early this evening.

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Doug Simonian

VIDEO Analysis: Heavy Rain & Flash Freeze This Weekend, Potential Snow Event Next Week

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Good evening! Our latest video goes into a bit more depth regarding the large storm system for Friday into Saturday. We explain how the low-level jet, high precipitable water values, and instability aloft may all lead to heavy downpours and even thunderstorms on Friday. We also explain how on Friday night and Saturday, cold air will quickly advect into the area in the low-levels, but remain warm aloft, so the interior may end as some sleet and freezing rain (not snow!) before precipitation ends. Much of the area may receive around 2″ of rain.

The warm layer and instability show up in a classic manner in forecast soundings, so we take an in-depth look at that as well. It also illustrates the juxtaposition between the warm air aloft and the very cold air in the low-levels that is advecting into the region on Saturday morning.

We also take a look at some of the model data regarding a snow event next week. It looks very impressive in some elements aloft, but some smaller details may prevent the storm from reaching its true potential.

Doug Simonian

VIDEO Analysis: Interior Northeast Ice Possible Saturday, Snow Possible Next Week

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Good evening! Our latest video analysis details the large rainstorm that will be occurring from Thursday night into Friday morning, while also discussing the validity to the colder trends with this storm on Friday night and Saturday. Progressive trends aloft combined with a large Arctic dome of high pressure will lead to a lot of low-level cold advecting into the area — particularly inland — on Saturday morning, making freezing rain and sleet a possibility. The quick drop in temperature may also lead to a flash-freeze scenario.

We also discuss the potential for a snow event next week, as a large ridge will be amplifying out West with a potent Arctic shortwave amplifying downstream. These patterns often portend significant snowstorms, but there are still a few features aloft that may lead to the storm developing too late for bigger impacts — but if those features get cleaned up, the potential for snow would increase significantly.