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Rain to Snow Tonight, A Cold & Windy Groundhog Day
Posted On Feb 02 2018
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Northwest wind 11 to 16 miles per hour, with gusts as high as 28 miles per hour. Overnight wind chills are in the single digits at times.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 45. “SUNDAY: Low pressure lifting out of the Tennessee Valley will pass by to our west bringing around 1/2” of rain.
Tuesday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely.
Thursday, mostly cloudy with light snow showers of less than one inch across southern Vermont and southern New Hampshire. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 38. West wind 14-16 miles per hour.
The chances of precipitation carry into next week. There’s a 20% we squeeze out a rain or snow shower between noon and 6pm, but those chances are quite low.
This may work up or down a bit as we get closer and a little more becomes clearer.
Wind chills this afternoon reached 14 degrees in Boston and NY, 12 degrees in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., minus 2 degrees in Pittsburgh, 4 degrees in Chicago and minus 5 degrees in Minneapolis, where Super Bowl preparations are underway. The air around that means a chilly northwesterly wind with sunshine and a few wintry showers. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 57.
Sunday morning the wind chill will fall to minus 18 degrees in Minneapolis. Icy conditions are expected across portions of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and western North Carolina. Southwest winds 5 to 15 miles per hour. There is a slight snow and rain chance Saturday morning. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 17. High near 42. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Expect the snow we’re seeing to wrap up by late morning, around 10 or 11 a.m. Those snow showers will continue through Sunday night and into Monday morning with a northwest wind component.
Thursday, partly sunny, with a high near 34.
After a cold day, we can prepare for a cold night this evening. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent. On Saturday night snow will also extend in to sections of the northeast reaching the New England area.
