This will go down as one painfully cold weekend with temperatures about 15-20 degrees below average during what is typically about the coldest time of year. After a refreshing blast of sunshine during the day, we expect clouds to roll back in overnight and bring another round of light snow into the daybreak hours of Monday. At least with the increasing cloud cover tonight temperatures will not get nearly as cold as they were last night. Monday and Tuesday will be mainly cloudy days with on and off flurries and light snow showers, accumulations will be limited to a glorified dusting which in our world is about a half inch…the best chance to maybe pick up an inch of fluffy snow accumulation will be on Monday night – and we’ll be watching for that. Skies should be snow free on Wednesday with a little sunshine showing too, but by Thursday a stronger storm system is forecast to move in bringing the best chance for snow accumulation in the week ahead. It’s tough to put a number on how much snow we could see because when it is this cold the snow really fluffs up and it does not take a lot of water to result in a few inch snowfall…so at this point we will say that three inches is definitely possible, and at the same time it could be a little more or a little less. There will be another shot of very cold air moving in behind the Thursday storm, and with the cold winds blowing off the Great Lakes and into the Ohio Valley, we’ll need to keep the flurries and light snow showers in the forecast at least for Friday and Saturday. It will still be quite cold on Sunday and Monday, but the long-range is hinting at a big of a warm up midweek along with another weather system by Tuesday or Wednesday. Stay warm and stay tuned!
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