I hope you got a chance to read my Blizzard of 2013 recap published earlier, boy what a storm right? Is that it for winter 2012-13? NO! In fact over the next 2 weeks and even this week, we have quite the wild pattern setting up with not one but two potentially major snowstorms which take take aim at a corridor from Texas to New England. The blizzard we’ve just seen is just the beginning of what may end up being a series of snowstorms which bring 1-2 feet over the next couple of weeks. If you love wild winter weather, it looks like folks from Texas to New England have WILD at the top of the menu.

Here is the midweek snow chart off the GFS valid through Thursday and note the nice swath of heavy snow from the Texas Panhandle through Oklahoma where upwards of a foot is possible towards Oklahoma City through the Ozarks, Kentucky, West Virginia later tomorrow into Wednesday and once into northern Virginia on late Wednesday into Thursday that’s where a decent swath of 4-8 inches is possible right into the Washington, Baltimore, perhaps Philadelphia corridor. The heaviest snows may stay south of New York City with this initial system but that doesn’t mean 2-4 inches can’t fall.

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While this system gets it’s act together over the Southern Plains tonight into tomorrow, bringing heavy snow across Amarillo into Oklahoma, another system will dive southeast out of British Columbia and it’s this system which will drop all the way into the Southern Plains on the backside of the initial, late week and bring yet more snow and strong winds to the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles before rounding the base of the trough and heading speedily northeast towards the Virginia Capes. Exazt track of this second, even first system is not written in stone and this will of course determine where the heaviest snows set up.

Here’s the GFS interpretation for the second system this weekend. Now, this potentially may bring upwards of a foot to the DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston corridor!

Check this out.

Like the parade of snowstorms we saw in the run up to Christmas for the Southern Plains, this may be the second 4-8, locally 12 inch snowstorm from Amarillo through Oklahoma City in just 4-5 days and for the Mid-Atlantic where snow has been sparse from Richmond to Philadelphia, the next 7 days alone may bring an entire seasons worth of snow to this region, allowing the Mid-Atlantic cities to experience a normal or even above normal snow year and for the New York to Boston corridor, this may end up being the second 10-12+inch snowstorm in barely a week. Impressive right? Given the dissapointing December and the spells of abnormal warmth during January, it’s catchup time with winter 2012-13.

After the second system barrels through the Mid-Atlantic this weekend, the ECMWF suggests a major trough drops in behind the departing low. This trough would, by far be the deepest trough of the entire winter with the 540 line dipping all the way to south Georgia which would be pretty amazing. With all the snowcover following two major snowstorms, this could bring some extremely cold air all the way to Florida.

Check out this trough!

This could have the potential to drop temperatures to 0 in Richmond, single digits all the way to Atlanta and Columbia, South Carolina while teens reach Savannah and Jacksonville.

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