Ben’s Blog
We are enjoying a timely one-day warm-up to help remove the thick layer of ice from last week’s snow and ice storm. Expect slippery conditions to develop overnight as temperatures dip below freezing again.
There was much ballyhoo about a big snowstorm for Monday-Tuesday that will not occur in the Ohio Valley, at least. This was based on computer model projections late last week that were premature at best, suggest a storm tracking up the western slopes of the Appalachians. I feel it is important to wait a bit longer before signing off on a projected storm that is theoretical and not even on the map. In fact, it is just forming Sunday in the western Gulf.
The computer models integrate jet stream and surface features, but this is a matter of timing that is loose and uncertain so many days in advace, which is why it is better to wait these projections out until we get closer to the event and more of a model consensus. That track is now an eastern seaboard path, as I outlined the past couple of days, which will skirt the Upper Ohio Valley. Any snow we see will come from a weaker clipper system Monday night and Tuesday before the two systems attempt to “phase” well to our east, primarily off the Atlantic coast.
