WINTER STORM WARNING

 

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Tuesday - Wednesday

Tracking another storm system as it moves across the country, slides through the Southeast and then just off the Carolina coast on Tuesday night - Wednesday morning.

This one definitely bears watching although current model forecasts are for it to pass just to our south.

Here is the 84-hour GFS which is the forecast for Wednesday morning:


You can see the storm off the North Carolina coast.  It moves essentially NE from here in later frames.

The storm is tossing back around 0.10-0.25 of precipitation - which is light: 1-3 inches of snow or so.

Two reasons this storm bears watching.

First:  it's strong.  A 989 mb low is fairly intense.

Second: this season, almost every storm this season has trended north and west from its position in model runs this far out.

If it moves more to the north and the west, this could be a big deal.  For now, some snow Tuesday night into Wednesday morning seems likely - but light amounts also seem likely.

Don't cancel any plans - but stay tuned...

1 comment:

  1. Is the world coming to an end with all these nasty storms and earthquakes???

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