10:15 AM EST 1/24/13 | By Winter Stormcast Director Zachary Fasnacht, in collaboration with the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Teams. Authentic local updates for areas to be affected by the next event in the Eastern U.S. can be found at these lead pages for their regions:
- NORTHEAST: Metro New York | Central New Jersey
- PENNSYLVANIA: Central Pennsylvania | Three Rivers (Pittsburgh)
- MARYLAND: Central MD | Capital Region | Southern MD | Potomac Ridge (West MD) | Bayshore (Eastern MD)
- VIRGINIA: Northern VA | Central VA | VA Tidewater
- SOUTHEAST: North Georgia & Metro Atlanta | Charlotte & Metrolina
OVERVIEW: A cold Arctic air mass has frozen over the mid-Atlantic over the past few days and now rounds o' snow are arriving with this cold air. Overall, we expect the next event to be relatively low impact, with the Friday evening commute being most affected. That said, a light snow will cover a large area and affect millions of people from Friday night into Saturday. Our latest team map for this next snow event as follows:
TIMING: Expect snow to begin across West Virginia and western Pennsylvania during the early afternoon hours on Friday.
- The snow will push east through the afternoon, arriving to the rest of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia by mid-afternoon.
- The snow will finally arrive by late-afternoon in New York City, New Jersey, and Delaware. Snow should end early Saturday morning across the mid-Atlantic as a few snow showers.
PRECIPITATION TYPE: Models are showing the cold air hanging around the mid-Atlantic for a few more days so precipitation is expected to fall in the form of snow for all areas. The mountain areas of West Virginia could see some heavy snowfall rates of 1” per hour at times.
IMPACTS: This system should be a low impact even with the worst being Friday afternoon and evening. Models show a general 1-3” snowfall across the mid-Atlantic at the moment.
- Some western areas of the mid-Atlantic such as western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and the Maryland Panhandle could see 2-4”, with the mountains of West Virginia possibly seeing 5-6”.
- Coastal areas could also see some higher accumulations if the storm redevelops close enough to the coast.
- It also possible the a dry slot may form over some areas of central Maryland in which case only a coating to an inch of snow would fall over central Maryland.
3:00 PM EST 1/23/13 | Winter Stormcast Director Zachary Fasnacht in collaborating with the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Teams of Foot's Forecast.
(UPDATE: This report is revised text of our Mid-Atlantic & Southeast Team statement as posted 11:00 AM EST 1/22. A second update is pending later tonight. Your comments, observation and analysis are welcome on this page, or on lead Facebook pages for this event)
Winter Stormcast | Mid-Atlantic (Left: FF team map)
Metro Atlanta & North Georgia (Right: NWS Peachtree City, GA map)
Metro Atlanta & North Georgia (Right: NWS Peachtree City, GA map)
OVERVIEW: Jack Frost has returned with a vengeance, bringing with him a rush of Arctic air to the Eastern U.S. We know many Powerhounds are wondering, given it is so cold, can there still be snow? Well the answer for most in the Mid-Atlantic: Yes. Our team still expects a snowstorm to move through the mid-Atlantic Friday into Saturday, with an increasing probability for moderate snow accumulations to occur across much of the region.
If this current scenario were to play out according to our projections, we have outlined the following setup. We will revisit this statement in the late PM update ready for review early Thursday morning.
TIMING: Precipitation will move into West Virginia, western Maryland, and western Pennsylvania early Friday morning.
- Precip would push east through the day, arriving to all areas by sundown. The snow will continue through Friday, possibly heavy at times Friday afternoon and evening.
- Snow would begin to taper off in West Virginia, western PA, and western MD around midnight Friday night.
- Areas further east will see snow end between midnight and sunrise Saturday morning.
PRECIPITATION TYPE: Most of the mid-Atlantic is expected to see mainly snow.
- Southern areas such as MD, southern Pennsylvania, DE, and southern NJ could see some mixing with sleet and freezing rain at times.
- This will make travel difficult as many of these areas will see the wintry mix change over to plain snow leaving a hidden layer of ice below the snow.
IMPACTS: This system has the potential to be a high impact event and affect a large area with many metropolitan cities possibly being affected including Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Newark, and New York City.
- Road conditions will deteriorate through the day Friday leading to difficult travel Friday evening. Many areas of Pennsylvania, New York, and central New Jersey could see temperatures well below 32 degrees so as the snow melts due to the sun, the roads will quickly refreeze leading to icy roadways.
- Travel will be improving by Saturday morning, but with the reinforcing shot of cold air for the weekend, black ice could be an issue in many areas. Our models show total accumulations from this system of 2-4” across the mid-Atlantic.
- There is still some variation in the models so there could be some changes. Some areas including DE, NJ, and eastern MD could see some additional snowfall on top of that depending on how quickly the storm redevelops when it gets to the coast. Other areas of Pennsylvania and New York could see higher totals because temperatures could possibly be in the teens, leading to higher than normal snow to liquid ratios.
Collaborating Forecasters:
Zach F. (PA); Alex D. (DE); Jason I. (GA); Jason M., (MD) Greg J., (MD) Connor M., (MD); Mike N. (MD); Andrew B. (PA)
Zach F. (PA); Alex D. (DE); Jason I. (GA); Jason M., (MD) Greg J., (MD) Connor M., (MD); Mike N. (MD); Andrew B. (PA)
15 comments:
Good gracious it is COLD..... bring on some precip!!!
Seriously. I went to school in upstate NY, brings back memories...mostly like frostbite, etc. :-)
Too cold to snow right now, air is so dry. Looking forward to seeing snow on Friday, but accumulations are significantly lower than what was originally anticipated. Perhaps schools will close Friday depending on the arrival time of first flakes.
Lotta delays...AA, Balt, How, Fred so far
Wahoo! Love the 2 hour delay!!! Faith in the flakes! At least a few flakes! :)
Really don't see much of a blocking Greenland high to keep this thing from just scooting on through quick...oh well. NAO not doing us any favors either at this point...
Thats why the NAO is not negative because there is no blocking. NAM looking ok on the noon run. Storm moves thru quick but NAM did not show dry slot. Hoping for at least 2-4.
Noon run of GFS kind of skips the heavier band from west to east. The panels are 3 hrs apart so I think we will have a 2-4 hour period of light to moderate snow from what the models are showing. NAM may be tending to over do it. Such a shame we can't seem to get a GOOD ONE. 2-4 insches may be a stretch with this one. After this we only have roughly 6 weeks to get some big ones.
Dry slot now showing out to the west briefly on GFS for tomorrow...still gonna go hunting either way Saturday morning...very true on the T - 6 weeks remaining for kahuna...beware the Ides of March. :-)
Not too cold to snow. Evidence of snow we just got overnite. A tenth of inch precip can turn into 2-3 inches with ratios of 20-1 30-1..If we can get a quarter of inch precip out of this next storm we may get 2"-4" or so. I live in northern Carroll county and it was 14 degrees and snowing so we can do this thing. Hopefully the atmosphere can get saturated enough to allow the snow to start falling to the ground and not drying up.
Considering I lived in Fargo for four years and it snowed well below zero, I don't think it's too cold to snow. It's just not typical wet, heavy Maryland snow. It's dry and powdery.
I think 2-3 inches is a good bet with the high ratios. Such a shame that the wave did not amplify like initially modeled earlier in the week. 2-3 inches in an almost snowless 2 year period is better than nothing.
Andrew,
Amplify my wave.
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