Monday Musings: Snow, rain, and baseball
Happy Monday! We are excited to bring forth the return of our daily musings posts, which will feature an overview of the forecast with highlights of the weather stories from around the area (and occasionally around the country as well). Today is also Opening Day for a large majority of Major League Baseball teams. If you woke up this morning thinking Opening Day would feature chirping birds and warm sun, you were wrong. Instead, you were probably greeted with snowflakes and a nice cold rain.
A broad but relatively progressive low pressure system moving through the Northeast US will continue to provide unsettled, raw, and quite honestly miserable weather conditions throughout our area today. High temperatures will eventually reach into the lower 50’s later this afternoon, but not before hours of cold rain mixed with snow. Wintry precipitation accumulations are expected this morning in the higher elevations, but mainly on grass and cold surfaces. Here are the highlights for the day ahead: