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[Anonymous]

Shivering East but Changes to Come

Sat., Jan. 10, 2004 7:20 P.M.

Jonathan Erdman and M. Ressler, Sr. Meteorologists, The Weather Channel


Northeast

While most residents of the Northeast expect January to be cold, the mercury has plunged to depths that would make even the heartiest New Englander shiver. Eighteen locations set record lows Saturday morning. Boston’s low of -3º, Rochester's low of -12º and Washington’s mere 8º were the coldest readings in each location since January 16, 1994. If that wasn’t cold enough for you, Whitefield, N.H. bottomed out at -35º for the nation’s low. Albany, Boston, Providence, Milton (Mass.), Worcester and Windsor Locks (Conn.) set or tied their record coldest high temperature for January 10th. This frigid air spilling over Cape Cod Bay churned out "ocean-effect" snow from 1 to 3 inches in parts of Cape Cod Friday night into Saturday. Farther south, a band of "bay-effect" snow lined up north-to-south along the Chesapeake Bay Saturday afternoon, bringing light snow to Norfolk, Va., and Elizabeth City, N.C. The bitter cold will linger as high pressure slides to the East Coast Sunday morning. Northern New York and northern New England will again have lows between -10º and -30º. Lows should plunge below 0º again in the Boston suburbs and over a good portion of interior southern New England, southern Upstate New York and northeast Pennsylvania. Single digits will dominate the rest of the Northeast Urban Corridor. It will be a tad less cold Sunday morning in western New York and western Pennsylvania, where light southwest winds will keep the mercury at least above 0º. Later Sunday, "milder" southwest winds will ease the cold with afternoon temperatures ranging from the single digits in northern Maine to the 30s in the Virginias, up about 10 degrees from maxes Saturday afternoon. As low pressure zips eastward from out of the Great Lakes, light snow will streak into western New York Sunday and across the Hudson Valley and New England Sunday night and Monday with a few flurries extending southward into Pennsylvania, West Virginia, western Maryland and New Jersey. By Monday, temperatures will rebound to above average levels with highs ranging from the teens in northern Maine to the 50s in Virginia. On Tuesday and Wednesday, a Canadian cold front, ushered in with snow showers, will steadily return frigid 20-to-35-degree-below-average arctic air to the region from north to south. Then a low pressure system from out of the Midwest may bring some snow to the Megalopolis by Thursday.


West

Things are slowly improving in the winter-weary Pacific Northwest. A weak weather system has slipped eastward across the northern Rockies and into the Plains, providing western Washington and western Oregon a break from the rain, snow, sleet and ice. Lingering low clouds and fog are clinging to some valley locations of the Northwest, including the stubbornly cold Columbia Gorge. Temperatures may finally come above freezing even in places like The Dalles on Sunday. The next system will spread rain and some mountain snow back into the Pacific Northwest by late Sunday. To escape winter, you may want to head to the Desert Southwest. Saturday’s highs approached 80º in Phoenix and reached 80º in downtown Los Angeles, and Sunday’s highs will be close to the same. One exception to this will be the Salt Lake Valley. Low clouds and fog will hang in the valley again Sunday, keeping temperatures in the 20s all day. Sunday will be the 4th day in a row with the visibility down to 1/4 mile or less at least through the morning hours in Salt Lake City.


Midwest

Comparing to other shivering parts of the country, temperatures in the Midwest won’t be all that cold, relative to a typical January day. The next cold front will languish along the Canadian border as a fast moving low pressure system zips along it on Sunday. West to southwest winds ahead of the front will provide a mild day over much of the region with temperatures 5 to near 20 degrees above average. For instance, highs will reach the mid-30s in Chicago, 40s in Indianapolis and 50s in St. Louis. Near the path of the low pressure system, a streak of light snow will blanket the ground from northern Minnesota to northern Lower Michigan. A new potent blast of cold air will arrive Tuesday and Wednesday over the northern Mississippi Valley, Great Lakes and eastern Ohio Valley as the cold front finally drops southward, so don’t let your winter guard down. Tuesday night and Wednesday, a disturbance from out of the Northwest will sweep from the northern Plains into the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys, possibly producing accumulating snow along its track.


South

Not to be left out of the shivering cold scenario is the Southeast. High pressure will settle into the Carolinas and Tennessee Valley from now into Sunday. The combination of clear skies, light winds, and some fresh snow cover will produce the coldest night of the season thus far in parts of Virginia and North Carolina, as lows tumble into the teens. Teens and 20s will blanket the Tennessee Valley, while 20s and 30s settle into northern and central Florida. A persistent wind will add to the chill in central Florida and a wind chill advisory is in effect. A freeze warning is in effect through Sunday morning for southern Georgia, southeast Alabama and northern Florida. This same high pressure system will provide a sunny day Sunday from the Southern Plains to the Carolina beaches. While the Southeast remains chilly Sunday, the Southern Plains will see highs a good 10-20º above average. January highs in the 60s over much of Oklahoma and Texas will seem quite tolerable considering the rest of the shivering East. The mild air will spread into the Southeast Monday and Tuesday as the entire southern region remains rain free. Showers followed by a few flakes of wet snow could clip Tennessee and then North Carolina Wednesday into Thursday.


This report is from http://www.weather.com/


-ARCTIC FREEZE JEB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[greg81988]

If you think that is interesting wait til you see the weather for this week for the east.

[weatherlover427]

Shivering East but Changes to Come

Sat., Jan. 10, 2004 7:20 P.M.

Jonathan Erdman and M. Ressler, Sr. Meteorologists, The Weather Channel


Northeast

While most residents of the Northeast expect January to be cold, the mercury has plunged to depths that would make even the heartiest New Englander shiver. Eighteen locations set record lows Saturday morning. Boston’s low of -3º, Rochester's low of -12º and Washington’s mere 8º were the coldest readings in each location since January 16, 1994. If that wasn’t cold enough for you, Whitefield, N.H. bottomed out at -35º for the nation’s low. Albany, Boston, Providence, Milton (Mass.), Worcester and Windsor Locks (Conn.) set or tied their record coldest high temperature for January 10th. This frigid air spilling over Cape Cod Bay churned out "ocean-effect" snow from 1 to 3 inches in parts of Cape Cod Friday night into Saturday. Farther south, a band of "bay-effect" snow lined up north-to-south along the Chesapeake Bay Saturday afternoon, bringing light snow to Norfolk, Va., and Elizabeth City, N.C. The bitter cold will linger as high pressure slides to the East Coast Sunday morning. Northern New York and northern New England will again have lows between -10º and -30º. Lows should plunge below 0º again in the Boston suburbs and over a good portion of interior southern New England, southern Upstate New York and northeast Pennsylvania. Single digits will dominate the rest of the Northeast Urban Corridor. It will be a tad less cold Sunday morning in western New York and western Pennsylvania, where light southwest winds will keep the mercury at least above 0º. Later Sunday, "milder" southwest winds will ease the cold with afternoon temperatures ranging from the single digits in northern Maine to the 30s in the Virginias, up about 10 degrees from maxes Saturday afternoon. As low pressure zips eastward from out of the Great Lakes, light snow will streak into western New York Sunday and across the Hudson Valley and New England Sunday night and Monday with a few flurries extending southward into Pennsylvania, West Virginia, western Maryland and New Jersey. By Monday, temperatures will rebound to above average levels with highs ranging from the teens in northern Maine to the 50s in Virginia. On Tuesday and Wednesday, a Canadian cold front, ushered in with snow showers, will steadily return frigid 20-to-35-degree-below-average arctic air to the region from north to south. Then a low pressure system from out of the Midwest may bring some snow to the Megalopolis by Thursday.


West

Things are slowly improving in the winter-weary Pacific Northwest. A weak weather system has slipped eastward across the northern Rockies and into the Plains, providing western Washington and western Oregon a break from the rain, snow, sleet and ice. Lingering low clouds and fog are clinging to some valley locations of the Northwest, including the stubbornly cold Columbia Gorge. Temperatures may finally come above freezing even in places like The Dalles on Sunday. The next system will spread rain and some mountain snow back into the Pacific Northwest by late Sunday. To escape winter, you may want to head to the Desert Southwest. Saturday’s highs approached 80º in Phoenix and reached 80º in downtown Los Angeles, and Sunday’s highs will be close to the same. One exception to this will be the Salt Lake Valley. Low clouds and fog will hang in the valley again Sunday, keeping temperatures in the 20s all day. Sunday will be the 4th day in a row with the visibility down to 1/4 mile or less at least through the morning hours in Salt Lake City.


Midwest

Comparing to other shivering parts of the country, temperatures in the Midwest won’t be all that cold, relative to a typical January day. The next cold front will languish along the Canadian border as a fast moving low pressure system zips along it on Sunday. West to southwest winds ahead of the front will provide a mild day over much of the region with temperatures 5 to near 20 degrees above average. For instance, highs will reach the mid-30s in Chicago, 40s in Indianapolis and 50s in St. Louis. Near the path of the low pressure system, a streak of light snow will blanket the ground from northern Minnesota to northern Lower Michigan. A new potent blast of cold air will arrive Tuesday and Wednesday over the northern Mississippi Valley, Great Lakes and eastern Ohio Valley as the cold front finally drops southward, so don’t let your winter guard down. Tuesday night and Wednesday, a disturbance from out of the Northwest will sweep from the northern Plains into the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys, possibly producing accumulating snow along its track.


South

Not to be left out of the shivering cold scenario is the Southeast. High pressure will settle into the Carolinas and Tennessee Valley from now into Sunday. The combination of clear skies, light winds, and some fresh snow cover will produce the coldest night of the season thus far in parts of Virginia and North Carolina, as lows tumble into the teens. Teens and 20s will blanket the Tennessee Valley, while 20s and 30s settle into northern and central Florida. A persistent wind will add to the chill in central Florida and a wind chill advisory is in effect. A freeze warning is in effect through Sunday morning for southern Georgia, southeast Alabama and northern Florida. This same high pressure system will provide a sunny day Sunday from the Southern Plains to the Carolina beaches. While the Southeast remains chilly Sunday, the Southern Plains will see highs a good 10-20º above average. January highs in the 60s over much of Oklahoma and Texas will seem quite tolerable considering the rest of the shivering East. The mild air will spread into the Southeast Monday and Tuesday as the entire southern region remains rain free. Showers followed by a few flakes of wet snow could clip Tennessee and then North Carolina Wednesday into Thursday.


This report is from http://www.weather.com/


-ARCTIC FREEZE JEB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah it was warm here today. We hit 77.8 degrees for our high. Twas quite a good day wxwise indeed.

[wxnut]

Yeah it was warm here today. We hit 77.8 degrees for our high. Twas quite a good day wxwise indeed.

I envy you my friend!!!!

[Lowpressure]

Looks like a very interesting next 10-14 days ahead.