Will work for pow-pow

Things are looking a little slow this week weatherwise…well at least from a snowfall standpoint.

Right now we have the remnants of cold-front that pushed over the East Coast early in the weekend finally starting to move out. There is still a bit of lake-effect snowfall around the NE states…in particular western NY and Northern PA seem to be seeing some decent droppage. Check out the Fox Weather HIDEF radar…



The 2-4” is probably being generous but any resorts in the area will be able to capitalize on the cold conditions and add some man-made to the natural stuff.

Here is the NWS snowfall forecast…you can see that the lake-effect snow is going to hang around for at least a day. This is showing the conditions for Monday night. Right now there aren’t many resorts open in this region but it does look like many will be opening as we head into next weekend.



Unfortunately the rest of the country is looking pretty sparse…with this map the white stuff equals bad. I am not expecting any new snow for the other regions.

The culprit is a broad ridge of high pressure that is filling in behind the storm that moved off the East Coast. There are actually 2 ridges that are blending into one large high-pressure and is extended from the southwest US through the Rockies.



Looking further out in the forecast snowfall conditions do improve. We are going to see a new storm moving out of the North Pacific and over the northwest US. Check out the extended NWS forecast map…



You can see that the storm, which has some warmer air-mass in it, doesn’t do much for snowfall along the West Coast Coastal ranges but it does start to cool off as it moves inland. By Friday and into early Saturday we can expect new snowfall in Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho, and Western Montana. Right now it doesn’t look particularly heavy but a lot will depend on how the storm behaves as it actually starts to develop.

So to sum up…not much happening for the next few days…just a bit of snow around the Great Lakes for the next 24-48 hours, then things slow down by midweek. Further out we will have new storm activity pushing over the NW as we head into the weekend.

Have a great week!