Weather

We’re up to bonus blog forecast territory because of possibilities of snow at the end of the week or into the weekend…or maybe not much. That’s typical for being 5 days away from a forecast, so we’ll talk about it and include the calmer conditions the next few days. Here’s the outlook to start, through Friday:

• Tonight-Clear, very cold. Low 10.
• Tuesday-Sunny and cold. High 32. Clear and cold Tuesday night, low 15.
• Wednesday-Mostly sunny. High 47.
• Thursday-Clouds and maybe a bit of rain or freezing rain before highs get to 45.
• Friday-Cloudy with a small chance of snow showers before highs get to 40.

Other than the cold today and tomorrow, there’s not much to talk about the next few days. We’ll rebound nicely from the early week cold weather to be back near normal for Wednesday and Thursday.

Things start getting iffy on Thursday, with a brief disturbance bringing a small chance of rain, maybe freezing rain early in the day. For the most part, it does look dry and we’ll get up to a high of 45.

Friday begins the possibility of winter storm conditions for our area, but the forecast is very much in doubt from there on. I’ve looked at every computer model I can get my hands on, and some see crippling snow for us, and others see very little. Some say it starts Friday, others get us mostly through Saturday before snow begins.

Any meteorologist worth their salt will tell you five days out that we don’t have a clue what’s going to happen, and this is certainly true here. Computers didn’t show any snow for Saturday three days ago. The concern is that several consecutive runs are showing accumulating snow, and that’s why bells are going off.

At this point, just keep an eye out. I’ll be doing that with as many forecast models as I can see between now and Wednesday. There’s no point in putting out numbers before Thursday about accumulations, so don’t expect anything any sooner, at least not from me. I’ll keep you advised…so stay tuned for updates as I can for the next couple days!