Monday, January 5, 2009

Winter weather holds on but much colder weather is ahead

An sloppy area of low pressure continues to slowly strengthen across eastern Texas. This will spread storms, rain, ice and snow from the Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley. Ice and Snow will accumulate across the Ohio Valley especially across I-70 area. Accumulations look less than a quarter inch of Ice and less than 4 inches of snow. So this doesn't look like very big storm at all and will be out of the area within 12hrs from the precip starting. Some light precipitation could linger around the Ohio Valley during the day on Wednesday.

Looking ahead a even colder pattern will start to set up across the east as a retrogression pattern will set up. So the coldest air compared to the means(averages) will be across the Northeast then will shift westward over the next two weeks. As by the 15th a very cold air mass could be entrenched from the Plains to the East Coast. Now if you're not enjoying the cold air then you'll like what is ahead. A big pattern change will occur by the end of January with temperatures above normal across the east. So if you make through the next 2-3 weeks then winters coldest will be a thing of the past.

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