Good afternoon from Southern Connecticut Weather!
A quick look at current conditions across the state shows partly cloudy skies and temperatures ranging from the upper teens inland, to the low and mid 20s at the shore. I expect these temperatures to moderate slowly but surely throughout the day for highs inland of about 25 degrees and highs at the shore around 30. Looking ahead to the evening, temperatures will drop back into the teens statewide with skies clouding over late in advance of our next weather maker, by the middle of the morning tomorrow skies look to be overcast.
A quick look at current conditions across the state shows partly cloudy skies and temperatures ranging from the upper teens inland, to the low and mid 20s at the shore. I expect these temperatures to moderate slowly but surely throughout the day for highs inland of about 25 degrees and highs at the shore around 30. Looking ahead to the evening, temperatures will drop back into the teens statewide with skies clouding over late in advance of our next weather maker, by the middle of the morning tomorrow skies look to be overcast.
For the most part, the morning looks to be mainly snow-free statewide wiith temperatures gradually rising through the teens into the low to mid 20s, with upper 20s to around 30 at the shore. Snow starts to move into the state from the west and southwest, beginning with a few early snow showers right around lunchtime in the southwestern part of the state, and overspreading the rest of the state by the mid afternoon. Snow will continue, in varying intensities, throughout Sunday evening and the early morning hours of Monday morning, it does look as if the morning rush will be impacted by snow, so delays and even closings around the state look likely. There is also a chance that the rain/snow line reaches the shoreline, especially far southeastern Connecticut, as the shortwave system becomes a coastal low pressure system and tracks south of Long Island and moves in a northeast trajectory. That said I expect all of the state down to the shoreline to be mainly snow. Current thoughts on snow accumulations are on the order of 3-6 inches, with slightly more possible in southwest and northeast Connecticut where we could find some isolated accumulations up to 8 inches.
Snow and possibly rain and mixed precipitation will end from southwest to northeast as we head through the mid morning hours of Monday, and completely clear of the state by around lunchtime. As we head through Monday afternoon we will see clearing skies and breaks of of sun, high temperatures look to approach the low 30s inland to mid 30s at the shore. Looking toward Monday night, temperatures will again tumble as a cold front moves through the state, lows look to range from the upper single digits inland, to the mid teens at the shore, so it looks as if these cold "blasts" are starting to become less potent. Tuesday will serve as a brief respite before next week's event, high temperatures will range from the low to mid 20s inland to the low 30s at the shore with clear skies.
A quick look at the mid-week storm shows much of the same, if not slightly colder on the front end and back end of the event. Right now it looks as if snow and frozen precipitation will move in later Tuesday night and bring some plowable accumulations, as the low pressure begins to wind up and track to the west of the state, gradually the entire state looks to change over to rain for the day on Wednesday, and we could see the first widespread 40 degree highs across the state in many, many weeks. As the storm pulls away late Wednesday night and Thursday, winds will flip around to the northwest and promote colder temperatures. We could see some wraparound snow on the backside of the storm on early Thursday morning, so we are watching this one very closely. There will be a more indepth discussion on this storm sometime tomorrow.
Enjoy your day everyone! We will have another update sometime this evening or tomorrow morning. Stay tuned!- Tim
