Monday, December 17, 2012

Here's a link to the latest super high-res radar http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php We can see more of a moderate rain falling across northern WV at this time. This rain is associated with a cold front pushing eastward across the eastern US today. However, conditions are not nearly cold enough to produce snow...yet. Lows fall into the low 40s tonight and stay in the upper 40s to 50° Tuesday. We'll start Tuesday cloudy and rainy. But high pressure and drier air will provide clearing skies by Tuesday night. A tiny little bit of snow will fall in the mountains Tuesday evening/Tuesday night. Not much accumulation is expected there. But commuters may see a few slick spots by Wednesday morning. The rest of  Wednesday will be mainly sunny with highs near 50°. Then another stronger system will trek across the Midwest, arriving with rain initially Thursday. But much colder air behind this front will bring a complete changeover to snow Thursday night into Friday morning. Forecast models have been struggling a bit with this system. But the average snowfall amounts by Friday night will add up to 2-3 inches across central & eastern WV with maybe an additional inch of snow in the mountains of WV/MD/PA. Lookin' at this map which shows ONE of the latest model runs, we can see very little snow accumulation across western and southern WV. So although this Thursday/Friday system may create some minor travel problems, it's not a show stopper. Cold air will stick around into the weekend before Christmas. Stand by for more info on white Christmas or not....Thanks for reading!