When the last significant coastal storm came into the Northeast, in late February, the amount of cold air hanging around was just enough to produce monumental amounts of snowfall in the mountains. Here we are two weeks later, and another complex storm is impacting the country from the Mississippi River Valley to the East coast. Now, because Canada has been milder than normal for the past couple of weeks and there has been no discharge of fresh cold air from the polar regions, this new storm is going to be predominantly a rain producer, and some areas are going to lose a good deal of base snow as a result. The resorts of far northern New York and northern New England are going to dodge a bullet with this one...the bulk of the moisture with this storm will squeeze out to sea to the south...there will be some mixed precip well to the north, but it will be more of a nuisance than anything else. The Midwest has had a very quiet winter, weather-wise, but it looks as though that region will have one more shot at meaningful natural snow. And speaking of snow...a bit of a pattern change has brought fresh snow to the Pacific Northwest this week, and the interior ranges of the West are picking up some heavy snow this weekend, after the coastal ranges of California got hit hard on Friday. Cold air is still at somewhat of a premium across the country, but the same pattern change that has brought snow to the West is the first sign that the jet stream will realign and deliver one last shot of arctic air to the U.S. before spring starts to settle in for good.
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| Herb Stevens has spent much of his professional career on the “road less traveled”. After graduating from Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in 1975, Herb elected to see the world as a caddy on the PGA Tour for five years before launching his career as a meteorologist. After one year at WJAR-TV in Providence, RI, Herb became one of the original on-camera meteorologists at The Weather Channel. A year and a half later, he became the Chief Meteorologist at WNYT-TV in Albany, NY. As part of his duties at WNYT, Herb pioneered a weekly on-snow ski report, which in 1988 became his full-time job, The Skiing Weatherman. More about Herb |
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