powderfreak
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I'm crunched for time and have been for the past week to ten days, so
here's a quick version of what I envision happening Wednesday evening thru Thursday:
First wave of precip slides south of New England during Tuesday night and
early Wednesday. This might bring some light snow and ice to portions of
PA, and northern NJ. Amounts will be on the order of up to 4" across the
mountains of PA and the higher terrain of NW New Jersey.
The second, stronger system will move through the Ohio Vally and up
towards Buffalo on Wednesday. Out ahead of this low will be strong warm
air advection precipitation...with a slug of moisture moving from PA
northeast into eastern NY and western New England on Wednesday evening.
It will be cold enough through the entire column for snow to be the
starting precip type from the southern tier of New York to the Catskills
and Berkshires. The snow will move NE towards east-central NY, VT, MA,
CT, and NH. After a couple hours of snow, precip will change to sleet,
then to freezing rain, and finally briefly to rain in areas south of I-90
across NY and MA. North of I-90, I expect all frozen or freezing precip.
The low tracks from Buffalo towards central VT and then out into the Gulf
of Maine with possible redevelopment (but it will be too late to do much
good except possibly hold the cold air in longer in eastern and coastal
MA).
As far as mountainous areas and snowfall goes (Starting Wednesday
afternoon from southwest to northeast and ending on Thursday from
southwest to northeast):
Southern Tier of NY into the Catskills...Snow->sleet->freezing rain->rain
with 3-5" of snow/sleet plus up to 1/2" of ice.
Albany into the Berkshires and northern MA...Snow->sleet->freezing rain-
>ending as drizzle or a period of light rain with 4-7" of snow/sleet plus
up to 1/4" of ice.
Southern Adirondacks over into Southern VT (Mount Snow to Okemo) and
Southern NH (Sunapee)...Snow->Sleet->Freezing Rain with 5-10" of
snow/sleet with a slight glaze of ice.
Northern Adirondacks over into Central VT (Sugarbush to Killington) and
Central NH (Loon and Waterville Valley)...Snow->Sleet->possibly ending as
freezing drizzle with 4-8" of snow/sleet.
Burlington into northern VT (north of I89) to northern NH (Cannon,
Wildcat)...Snow->possibly mixing with sleet at the end with 3-6" of
snowfall.
-Scott
here's a quick version of what I envision happening Wednesday evening thru Thursday:
First wave of precip slides south of New England during Tuesday night and
early Wednesday. This might bring some light snow and ice to portions of
PA, and northern NJ. Amounts will be on the order of up to 4" across the
mountains of PA and the higher terrain of NW New Jersey.
The second, stronger system will move through the Ohio Vally and up
towards Buffalo on Wednesday. Out ahead of this low will be strong warm
air advection precipitation...with a slug of moisture moving from PA
northeast into eastern NY and western New England on Wednesday evening.
It will be cold enough through the entire column for snow to be the
starting precip type from the southern tier of New York to the Catskills
and Berkshires. The snow will move NE towards east-central NY, VT, MA,
CT, and NH. After a couple hours of snow, precip will change to sleet,
then to freezing rain, and finally briefly to rain in areas south of I-90
across NY and MA. North of I-90, I expect all frozen or freezing precip.
The low tracks from Buffalo towards central VT and then out into the Gulf
of Maine with possible redevelopment (but it will be too late to do much
good except possibly hold the cold air in longer in eastern and coastal
MA).
As far as mountainous areas and snowfall goes (Starting Wednesday
afternoon from southwest to northeast and ending on Thursday from
southwest to northeast):
Southern Tier of NY into the Catskills...Snow->sleet->freezing rain->rain
with 3-5" of snow/sleet plus up to 1/2" of ice.
Albany into the Berkshires and northern MA...Snow->sleet->freezing rain-
>ending as drizzle or a period of light rain with 4-7" of snow/sleet plus
up to 1/4" of ice.
Southern Adirondacks over into Southern VT (Mount Snow to Okemo) and
Southern NH (Sunapee)...Snow->Sleet->Freezing Rain with 5-10" of
snow/sleet with a slight glaze of ice.
Northern Adirondacks over into Central VT (Sugarbush to Killington) and
Central NH (Loon and Waterville Valley)...Snow->Sleet->possibly ending as
freezing drizzle with 4-8" of snow/sleet.
Burlington into northern VT (north of I89) to northern NH (Cannon,
Wildcat)...Snow->possibly mixing with sleet at the end with 3-6" of
snowfall.
-Scott
