Sunday, January 4, 2009

1/4 - 7:15pm - Still Looks Like Mostly Rain

We've seen a slight shift east in the low track for this storm on Tuesday/Wednesday, but it really hasn't had too much effect on our precipitation type. If there were some cooler air to work with, this would have made a bigger difference. We're still generally on the edge of the rain/snow line, but we'd have to see a 100 mile shift southeast in the track of this storm to get to the snow side. All in all, we're still a little ways out, but it's looking less likely that we'll see much snow out of this.

We're still on to see some snow showers on the backside of the system on Wednesday, but I'm not banking on anything more than a dusting in terms of accumulation. There's simply not enough moisture in the cold air behind the system to cause any concern at this point. So, the forecast from yesterday still holds... unless the models start trending east more and giving us more cold air to work with.

It looks like we'll still see cooler temperatures after the passage of this storm, but maybe not as cold as once thought. Still some storms to deal with in the long range, so don't give up if you want snow!

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