Weather! Cold temperatures ahead, more snow possibilities?
Highs for Wednesday will climb back into the mid 40s again, with overnight lows tonight in the mid 20s. Cloudcover will linger through Thursday, giving us another day with highs in the mid 40s. Temperatures overnight will drop into the upper 20s. Friday and beyond is where things start to get interesting.
A disturbance crossing the region from west to east today is creating some cloudcover this afternoon; it will linger through the next couple days. Highs for Wednesday will climb back into the mid 40s again, with overnight lows tonight in the mid 20s.
Cloudcover will linger through Thursday, giving us another day with highs in the mid 40s. Temperatures overnight will drop into the upper 20s.
Friday and beyond is where things start to get interesting. A cold front associated with a strong low developing over the Great Lakes will be passing through the area during the morning. Conditions will be favorable for at least some snow flurries Friday morning, if not a dusting or a very very light accumulation of snow. I don’t think this will be a significant snow event, but it will be snow nonetheless.
Looking to the long-term, a pair of powerful upper-level lows will be developing over the next week, bringing two more blasts of cold, arctic air over the next week. The first will be the weaker of the two, keeping highs in the upper 30s and low 40s into next week. The second blast, coming later next week, looks to make temperatures even colder. I’m also looking at the possibility of another winter storm in the Tuesday to Wednesday period next week. We’re too far out to say anything with a lot of certainty, but it’s a system I’m keeping an eye on.
I’ll have another update on Friday’s snow and the weekend forecast tomorrow night.
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Dan Goff is now a two-time former Richmonder, having departed the River City yet again in favor of southwest Virginia, where he is working on degrees in geography and meteorology at Virginia Tech. Have a question about the weather or weather-related phenomena?
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Doesn’t anyone else kind of want to fall over and die when they read the word “arctic” in a forecast pertaining to our area?
Fortunately, while arctic describes the airmass, the temperatures will have moderated somewhat by the time they reach Richmond.
Somewhat.
I am totally with you, Valerie.
a pair of powerful upper-level lows – weather boobs
I would like a treatise on the relative fluffiness of the snow.
I am willig to wager that last night/morning’s may be the fluffiest snow of the season.
A treatise! I’ve never been asked to write one of those before. I’ll see what I can put together for you, Scott.