The true spring-like warmth of late last week was dramatically erased from Midwest to Northeast this past weekend as a powerhouse cold front with vort max packing gale-force gusts swept through Sat into Sun. This forced the rapid development of low pressure on exiting New England.

The result was widespread wind gusts of 30-60 mph which tore down trees and power lines from Maine to Virginia as well as bring a swath of snow from Appalachians to New England.

Staten Island

Maryland

We also saw the first in a series of snow systems.

This was the scene from a windswept Garrett County, MD yesterday. Remember it was in the 70s and 80s just days ago!

Syracuse, NY

In the below visible satellite animation, you can see the weekend low departing Newfoundland while the next system crosses the Northeast today.

GFS surface

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Quite the north-south temperature gradient today. Solidly in the 20s across New York and New England while it’s in the 70s across Virginia.

It’s a snowy April 4th north of NYC while early this afternoon late spring warmth brought shorts and t-shirt weather to DC.

Boston, MA

Greenwich, RI

An intense snow band in SE Mass late this afternoon.

This system clears making for a cold night tonight and tomorrow night, especially where there’s snow cover.

Plenty more wintry fun and games to come late week and through the weekend.

See today’s video.

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