As of 9:00 AM Tuesday, the bulk of our snowstorm has pushed off to the north and east. The rest of today should be dry and cloudy. There can be a stray light snow shower or flurries during the afternoon, but I wouldn’t expect to see much, if any, additional impactful snow accumulation locally. Those stray snow showers/flurries will fade after sunset.
Temperatures this afternoon are expected to warm a few degrees above freezing, allowing exposed roads and highways to melt their snow cover. Travel home after work should be much improved compared to the morning drive. Temperatures will fall to the low 20s overnight, so any standing water from snowmelt will freeze.
High pressure will build overhead tonight and Wednesday, which should provide us with dry conditions, although area temperatures will remain colder than average.
A reinforcing cold front is expected to cross the region on Wednesday night. There is not a lot of moisture for this to work with, and any snow associated with the front looks minimal. Any additional snow accumulation in our area would be light – around or less than an inch.
It is a potent cold front, though. Temperatures will decrease as we go through the daytime hours on Thursday. Thursday night temperatures could drop to the single digits by early Friday morning – coldest of the season so far. The record cold in New Phila is 2° (1966). I don’t think it will get cold enough to break that record.
I’ll take a more detailed look at this on Wednesday, but other than the shot of very cold air in its wake, I wouldn’t expect much more than light snow accumulation at this point.
Snow or not, temperatures look to remain cold over the next 7 to 10 days.
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