So, the prediction for SW connecticut for thursday was a chance of a quick rain show with the front that was passing through. Now this prediction was published the wednsday, of the thursday storm. So, 7:00 Thursday morning there were some extremely light snow flurries beginning to fall... barely visible. It was nice to see and i knew that late wednsday night they updated it to some rain or snow showers developing. so i knew there was a chance so i wasnt shocked... yet. by around 8:00 Am it was snowing heavy with winds gusting to 40 mph... COMPLETELY UN-EXPEXTED. there was close to an inch on the ground by 8:30... as the day progressed there was no sign of it stopping. by 10:00 there was close to 3 inches. The flakes were switching between big and small and it was crazyyy... by around 1:00 PM the snow was lightening up just a little bit and there was nearly 4 inches of snow on the ground. Finally by around 1:30 there was no snow and sunny skies. By 2:30 it was getting cloudy again... and this is the strange part, even though the rest was pretty strange already. By 4:00 PM the was a crazy 3 minute blizzard winds must have been close to 50 mph and the snow was coming down lik crazy. FOR 3 MINUTES!!! it added a half an inch at least. So... just a quick story i had to share since the models were so wrong.
OK... now for the weather going on.... The storm is currently exiting off the Carolina coast. Once again, the models brought the storm too far to the south, so instead of DC getting an inch like originally predicted... they got 5 inches like i predicted or at least they have close to three already and its still coming down hard and expected to do so for the next couple of hours at least. Philly even in on the action!!! maybe an inch or less... for NYC i still thing you'll see some flakes... north of there i see nothing.
Long Range Forecast:
Tuesday/Wednsday... 2nd/3rd: Storm comes up the gulf of mexico and cuts through to the east coast bring rain to Texas, LA, and most of the south including MS, AL, GE, and the carolinas. As for snow... light snow looks possible across TN, SW KY... Virginia looks like it has another threat for a heavy snow, and maybe even some ice across Nothern NC. Again, it looks like a dome of High pressure will block any snow from getting further north then maybe DC. and snow will be light around there. Florida looks like it will get some heavy rain once again with maybe some severe weather included, especially central FL.
Thursday-Wednsday... 4th-10th!: Now we get into some crazy stuff. In some ways this storm will be similiar to the 2nd/3rd storm but different. The storm will come from the same place but about 5x stronger. The southern states will be slammed by a flooding and cripling rain storm. Severe weather looks likely too. Northern FL looks to get the worst with unbelievebal rain and severe weather. The difference with this storm is it will sit in the gulf and slowly move across FL and just follow the coastline up and then it shows around 100-200 miles off the coast of Long island and Nantucket. Looks like just a major snowstorm for all the areas that got hit this weekend except OK, plus this storm will turn up north and slam PA, SE NY, CT, MA, parts of VT and NH, and ME. some areas look like they will see a foot to two feet of heavy snow. It will be a blizzard for some. The scarey part, or for me exciting, is that the models have been very consistent on this storm. So we shall see.
Friday... 12th: looks like a storm will come out of TX and be a major rainstorm to the south some ice and snow on the northern edge... but it looks too far away to tell what happens.
Thats it for now check back later for more!!!
... current snowstorm slamming the Mid-Atlantic!!!!!!!!!
