BLOG: Quiet For Now
It's quiet today, but that will change tomorrow.
The storm coming our way is going to be a merger of two different storms, one storm over the Midwest and another one in the Southeast. The southern storm has already caused major problems all through the Deep South. It dumped a few inches of snow from Mississippi over into Georgia, with a band of icing south of the snow. The snow and ice are cutting up into the Carolinas today. The center of this storm will slow down big time along the coast tonight. That brings us to the other storm.
The storm over the Midwest cut out from the Northern Plains where it dumped 5-10" of snow all the way from Denver out to Kansas City. It will continue moving eastward into the Ohio Valley tonight. Then, it will swing through the Mid-Atlantic and out to sea tomorrow, where it will meet up with the coastal storm. At that point, they will make their merge into one much bigger, stronger storm just off the New Jersey coast tomorrow night.
Since that merger will happen AFTER the two different storms pass us, we will not get the worst this storm has to offer. That will be focused on Long Island up into New England. However, we are going to get something as they pass by us along the way to meet each other. So this is what we expect for us:
-Snow to break out sometime tomorrow during the midday hours, say between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
-Snow will pick up tomorrow evening/night as both storms pass by Maryland.
-It will remain all snow for most of us, but there will be enough warm air along the beaches and southern Eastern Shore for some mixing.
-The storm will come to an end early Wednesday morning for us, just as it's intensifying offshore...leaving us in the cold air with gusty northwest winds most of Wednesday.
As far as accumulations go, we will get some snowfall accumulation out of this one. We are thinking generally 3-5" for the Baltimore metro area, with those numbers dropping to 1-3" when you get farther west (cutting a line somewhere along Carroll and Montgomery Counties, and putting DC in the 1-3" zone). Then, those numbers jump to over 5" from Cecil County and northern Delaware up into southeast PA and New Jersey. Also, there will be over 5" in Garrett and western Allegany Counties. If you want to see the graphical map of this, check out our webcast on this site.
When the storm moves away, the cold air will stay. Highs will only be in the 30s for the rest of the week.
Make sure you check back in with WJZ and WJZ.com as we move through this round of snow. We will be here.
