Volatile weather pattern *could* turn snowier by Valentine’s Day
By Wes Junker

The last several weeks have been a roller coaster ride alternating between cold and warm periods but the cold has yet to produce any significant snowstorms. That roller coaster ride is expected to continue during the next couple of weeks.

We’re now exiting a cold period and entering a period where temperatures will rise into the mid-to-upper 40s by later this weekend and into the 50s early next week. However, a cold rain looks like it could be in the offing for Friday with Saturday probably remaining on the chilly side.

How warm it gets next Sunday through Tuesday will depend on whether we are stuck in clouds or not. If it’s cloudy, maximum temperatures will stay in the low-to-mid 50s. If somehow we break out of the clouds on Monday, we might even nudge 60. Right now, it looks like cloudiness will prevail.

The period from February 13-18 has an unusually high level uncertainty associated with it. Another front will be crossing the area in the next Tuesday or Wednesday timeframe ushering in the next cooler than normal spell. The models differ quite a bit on the timing of this front and on how quickly the cold air will get into the area. The magnitude of the cold and how long it might stay is more of a question than during the last two cold spells.

Snow looks very unlikely before February 13. Then the picture becomes cloudy as there is some southern stream energy showing up on the guidance which raises the potential for a wave to form on the front Such a wave raises the odds slightly of breaking out of our 2 inch or greater snowstorm drought.

We need a good snow to bring in more cash!

yeah right. Weathermen are the only people I know of that can be right 50% of the time and still hold a job.

I'm willing to bet it will be 50 and sunny.

TOILET PAPER AND BREAD AND MILK AND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 FEET OF SNOW PREDICTED

So I guess this means I won't be going out on Valentine's Day. Might as well keep the yearly tradition intact.

Single Wrote:
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> So I guess this means I won't be going out on
> Valentine's Day. Might as well keep the yearly
> tradition intact.


Beer and KY?

I hope so! whoever post stuff from the CWG is my hero!

There are so many caveats to that story that it's worth nothing. WP writers know that anything mentioning snow will drive views/newspaper purchases, so they jump on the slightest inkling of a snowstorm to get panicy suburban folks to fall all over themselves to get the latest info.

Truth is, ain't nobody know squat about what the weather will be like on Valentine's Day.

Ralph Pootawn Wrote:
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> Single Wrote:
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> > So I guess this means I won't be going out on
> > Valentine's Day. Might as well keep the yearly
> > tradition intact.
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> Beer and KY?


Beer and a fleshlight.

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