Next 10 Days: 3 Storms, Big Snows Expected From Rockies To Atlantic Seaboard, Wild February Coming!

Written by Mark Vogan on January 31, 2014 in United States of America with 0 Comments

The latest bout of brutal cold that’s now easing over the East today and tomorrow won’t be the last of this winter. It’s looking like the pattern is taking on a different but still VERY WINTRY form and the upcoming 10 days of February is looking wild with not 1 but perhaps 3 major snowstorms taking aim at the heart of the country into the Northeast.

The culprit to this stormier but still cold pattern is the shift over the far north with a trough digging into the Gulf of Alaska and the Western US which will setup a more active southern branch jet stream and with systems set to finally push over California, we’re talking RAINFALL for a state desperately in need.

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With Pacific origin storms expected to take a San Francisco-Los Angeles to Chicago-New York path, an atmospheric battle develops as Arctic air will remain over southern Canada and the Northern US while much warmer air will try to lift north from the Gulf. The greater the thermal gradient, the bigger the storms and with plenty of cold and warmth riding over top, you’ve got the recipe for some major, crippling snowstorms across the Central Plains, Ohio Valley and Northeast, quite possibly as far south as DC and Richmond.

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Here’s a look at the Southeast snow visible from NASA satellite (below) this morning after skies cleared out, producing a truly frigid morning. Note the touch of snow even in Florida which made MISSOURI the only US state to have no snow on the ground. Amazing!

Source: NASA

Coldest Morning Of Winter, Since 1990s For Some!

This morning saw the perfect ingredients come together for maximum radiational cooling. Widespread fresh snow cover, clear skies, light winds and a dry arctic air mass allowed many to see the coldest temperatures of winter and in years to be achieved.

Here’s the lowest temperatures by state over the past 3 days via Jesse Ferrell.

NORTHEAST:

– Garrett County, Md.: -27 (Source) -Oswayo, Pa.: -23 (Wed.) -Lisbon, Ohio: -22 (Tue.) -Mount Washington, N.H.: -22 (Tue.) -Cold Brook & Wilmington, N.Y.: -22 (Tue.) -East Windsor, Mass.: -21 (Tue.) -Mannington, W.Va.: -17 (Tue.) -Cornwall Bridge, Conn.: -13 (Tue.) -Wicomico River, Del.: -12

SOUTHEAST: -Mount Leconte, Tenn.: -12 (Wed.) -Childress, Va.: -11 -Jefferson, N.C.: -8 -Atlantic City, N.J.: -3 -Bowden, Ga.: -3 -Barfield, Ala.: -3

*Sources: NWS PNS/RER; Mesowest; CRONOS.

There was some remarkable lows set in the Mid-Atlantic and South this morning including Ocean City, MD at -9, the coldest since 1999. Norfolk, VA hit 6 this morning which is the coldest there since 1994. Interestingly, this comes after they saw a high of 81 within a week of Christmas which was the warmest ever recorded in December.

Weather watcher Vic Bell of Black Creek near Gadsden, AL recorded a low of -5, coldest in many years I would imagine.

Here was the scene over parts of the snow covered and frozen Mid-Atlantic this morning.

Ocean City, MD (Courtesy of WeatherBug)

Stevensville, MD overlooking a frozen Chesapeake Bay (Courtesy of WeatherBug)

View from Arlington overlooking the frozen Potomac River to DC (Courtesy of WeatherBug)

Here’s a glance at the ECMWF ‘snowstorm train’ through the next 7-10.

Storm 1 (Sat 1-Sun 2)