Noon, Thursday, January 11
Fortunately, the system for tomorrow evening into early Saturday should not be nearly as wet as the recent storm. Totals from this past Tuesday and Wednesday were in the 2 – 3″ range, and by Saturday morning we will be looking at another .5 – 1″, but I don’t think it will cause any where near the issues we had earlier this week.
Since Thanksgiving, the sub tropical jet has been delivering across central MD with rain totals in excess of 10 inches, which is fairly typical for an El Nino, and if long term models are correct, the trend for wet weather will continue. Making things interesting is the arrival of colder air in the wake of tomorrow’s system on Saturday and Sunday which could set the stage for our first region-wide snow in a couple of years. The GFS model is pointing to Tuesday as a cold and snowy day across the region, but be warned, it doesn’t have consensus from the other models. I think it’s too early to say how things play out, but it certainly bears watching.
Hopefully things still hold potential tomorrow and if so, I’ll send out an update.
The Weather Mill 