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Cold Blast Hits Northeast

#1 Postby CaptinCrunch » Tue Dec 02, 2003 9:15 am

Cold Blast Hits Northeast
8AM EST, December 2, 2003

A cold blast of winter has invaded the northeastern quarter of the nation
overnight with even colder weather pushing into New England and the Mid-
Atlantic on Tuesday and Tuesday night. A delivery of cold polar air caused the lake effect snow engine to rev up on Monday and snow showers dropped between one and five inches of fresh snow around Buffalo and another 2-4" in northern New York and Vermont.

Snow also whitened the ground into the Appalachians of northern Pennsylvania and the Catskills of southern New York. Today, an even colder, arctic, air mass will be flowing into the northeast and
filtering down the East Coast. Temperatures will be slow to rise, if at
all, during the daylight hours on Tuesday across New England.

Highs in the region will be in the 20s and 30s with some areas dropping into the teens by early afternoon. With gusty winds, wind chill emperatures will drop down into the single digits from Maine
to Pennsylvania and into the teens along the Atlantic Coast.

A WeatherBug live sensor in Canton, New York, in the northern part of the
state, was 12 degrees early this morning with wind chill temperatures
below zero. The extra cold air mass will also keep the lake effect snow flying near Lake Ontario and eastern Lake Erie. Depending on where the heavy lake effect bands line up, another 3-8" of snow could fall in the region. Tonight, a high pressure system will build into the region from the west and this will allow for skies to clear some and winds to lessen. This could allow temperatures to fall into the low teens and single digits across much of the interior of New England and the Appalachians of the Mid-Atlantic.

Temperatures in the low to mid-20s are likely down the East Coast and across the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys. Temperatures may fall as low as 25 degrees in Raleigh, North Carolina. The cold air mass entrenching itself
over the East today and tonight will set the stages for a winter storm
approaching from the Midwest later this week. Snow will be possible across
parts of New England by late Thursday and Friday. Stay tuned to your
WeatherBug for all the latest forecasts and advisories pertaining to this latest blast of winter.
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