Possibly a Busy Week of Winter

An arctic front will cross the area by afternoon today bringing high wind, a possible lunch time snow shower, and much colder temperatures. Blustery conditions continue through the rest of the holiday weekend with a passing flurry from time to time leading into Monday night and early Tuesday’s possible first snow event of the season. Well, actually, it would be the first in two seasons so fingers crossed that it continues to head in the right direction.

The Monday night system looked much better on the gfs model a few days ago and then completely fizzled out, but a heartbeat has returned and now other models are coming around to the same idea. If they are correct in their output, then light snow would develop in central MD after midnight Monday night and continue into the morning. Presently, it does not look like a major event but with cold temperatures in place, Tuesday morning’s commute would be impacted. Again, this is prefaced on if the gfs and nam models are correct. Hopefully the European model comes around today. I’ll update later today or early Monday morning.

After Tuesday, cold, dry conditions continue through the week until a possible storm system approaches the area Friday. A lot of uncertainty with that system, so more on that later. For now, I’m just happy that there is a chance of a region-wide accumulating (albeit minor) snow event.