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Cold Morning in East, Storm Looms

#1 Postby CaptinCrunch » Wed Dec 03, 2003 9:29 am

Cold Morning in East, Storm Looms
8AM EST, December 3, 2003

With a fresh layer of snow on the ground and some of the coldest air
settling in over the region, much of the Northeast dipped to the coldest
morning of the season on Wednesday. Temperatures from Maine to western New York and south into Pennsylvania fell into the teens with many locations dropping into the single digits.

The WeatherBug live sensor in Allegany, New York, southwest of Buffalo fell to 1 degree. Other WeatherBug live sensors reporting chilly mornings included, in New York, Canton, 3, Madison, 5, and Schenectady, 6.
Eastern New England also felt the chill. Greenville, Rhode Island fell to 9
degrees, while Fitchburg, Massachusetts shivered at 8 degrees. Temperatures even fell into the teens in Central Maryland
where larksville bottomed out at 19 degrees.

This cold arctic air mass has settled in into the Southeastern U.S. as well.
Temperatures were in the low 20s near Richmond, Virginia and in the upper 20s in Atlanta. This cold air mass is well entrenched and it will create problems as a developing storm in the Plains moves towards the East Coast on Thursday and Friday. The storm system in the Plains is already promising snow, sleet and freezing rain for much of Iowa and
northern Missouri. 1-3 inches could fall in central Iowa.

The storm has also caused forecast offices in North Carolina, southwestern
Virginia and southeastern West Virginia to issue winter storm watches and
warnings for significant amounts of freezing rain and/or sleet late Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Many more advisories are
likely to be issued in the Mid-Atlantic over the next several days.
The cold artic air is very dry, and when the precipitation begins, this will cause the temperatures to cool rapidly at the surface. This could create a significant icing situation in the western Piedmont of the Carolinas, Virginia and Maryland.

The storm will be slowly developing off the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Thursday night and Friday morning. This system will bring high winds to the coastal areas of New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia on Friday and Saturday. The storm will also develop an area of snow, sleet and freezing rain over the interior of the Mid-Atlantic Thursday night and Friday. This wintry precipitation could last into part of Saturday.

In the big cities from Philadelphia to Washington DC and south to Richmond, the precipitation may start icy, but should become mostly rain. A wintery mix is likely just to the west of these cities. On Friday and Saturday, the coastal storm could really wind up and some significant amounts of rain could fall on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina.

It appears the storm will develop too far south to have a major effect on the cities from New York to Boston. The southeastern coast of New England could be grazed by the storm, but it would likely be rain. The biggest effects will the gusty winds on the coast and some potential coastal flooding from Long Island to the Jersey Shore. This is a significant storm and residents along the entire East Coast and Appalachians and Ohio Valley should monitor it closely.
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#2 Postby JCT777 » Wed Dec 03, 2003 10:05 am

That was a good read, and sounds very reasonable.
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