WEATHER BLOG: Winter Storm Gets Closer
By Sunday night, after a brief changeover to sleet, snow begins falling.
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By Sunday night, after a brief changeover to sleet, snow begins falling.
One last day of the delicious taste of spring before a bitter taste of winter returns this week.
Mostly dry today. And while the weather starts quietly on Monday, it ends up getting messy by late Monday night and early Tuesday.
Sore backs in the Delaware Valley get a mild stretching exercise today. Yes, more shoveling, especially north and west, but the lifting won't be nearly as heavy as the Valentine Eve storm.
A little Alberta clipper has a Sunday afternoon trip planned for the Delaware Valley. It is packing light, with a relatively measly 1–3" of snow expected.
Of all the weather 'events' this troublesome winter, the ones this weekend will be the tamest. A few little disturbances in the atmosphere can brush by the area bringing a nuisance amount of snow.
The National Weather Service pegs snow amounts Monday at 4 to 6 inches, but anywhere from less than 3 inches south to perhaps an isolated 6+ inches could occur.
Will it ever stop? Many people wonder that, after a brutally cold and difficult January. Another round of snow will eyeball the Philadelphia area and decide to go for it.
We had a lot of thawing to do after temperatures in the single numbers and below zero to start last week.
Three times in a week, snow and ice and rain pelt our tri-state area. This latest storm looks to bring all three precipitation types again today.
3 to 6 inches of snow could fall until a gradual changeover to rain overnight.
Saturday serves as a quiet transition day between Friday's mild rain and Sunday's cold wet. Computer models agree that wet weather moves in on Sunday, preceded by cloud cover early in the day.
The weather has taken on a few personality changes lately.
The expected Arctic blast blowing through the area Sunday will keep it feeling below freezing all day and night.
When Sonny and Cher did it, it was the BEAT goes on. When a Bermuda high sings it, it is the HEAT goes on…and on and on.
One of the six victims is 52-year-old Roseline Conteh, a mother of nine who loved her family and bargain hunting - a pastime that led her to go shopping on a beautiful Wednesday morning in Philadelphia.
Three hospitals in Philadelphia treated the 13 injured victims.
The first week of March starts like a kitten, but there may be an inner lion hiding in there for the middle of next week.
A mid-February chance of snow for the Delaware Valley from a fast moving low pressure system to our south.
The weather needs a new calendar. It's acting like April even though we are deep into winter.
How about those winds on Friday night and Saturday and even now on Sunday?
They faded…the sun passed some rays and by the end of the game, the sun returned. Score 47 (degrees). Enjoy your Big Game in Indianapolis and puppy bowl.
Hey…where is all that January warmth? We want it back, now!!
