Ben’s Weather Blog
Again, tonight, cold air retreats, but not fast enough to avoid some freezing drizzle in the north. But as storms approach this winter, they take a western track relative to central Ohio drawing mild air north, then they pass with a surge of cold, dry air. In the end, little or snow. For the season in Columbus, a mere 3 inches of snow have fallen.
There are signs this pattern may give way to colder weather later next week in relation to more complex atmospheric patterns associated with Atlantic pressure patterns. There is also a sign that La Nina, cooler Pacific water prevalent last winter, may be forming again, favoring a wetter second half of winter. Remember the snowy pattern of last February and early March with intervening floods.
Either way, it has been a repeat of very snowy conditions across the northern tier of states, and very little with generally above-normal conditions to the south. But a colder regime should develop midweek, though no major snowstorms are in the offing for now.
