Ice Ice Baby… The return of the 90s rap icon tells you all you need to know. Forget the above freezing temps in WNY and the lower elevations of CNY and the Southern Tier… They are about to go BYE BYE! The culprit is a 1040+ mb HIGH moving from the upper Midwest into the Northeast US. This is arctic/Siberian in origin which means below zero by night, above zero (not by much) by day.
Expect Thursday and especially Friday and Saturday to feature lots of sunshine, beautiful skies, but expect to freeze your nose hairs off if you are outside for more than a few seconds. This extended stretch of bitter cold, will ensure any running water, swamps, thin snow areas, those last to freeze up on the trails, will finally freeze down. Finally. It took deep enough into January to do this. It’s about time!
With a lot more trail systems open, the next Guide to Your Ride Podcast will be especially important. With thousands of miles of trails, a lot more local to folks than Tug Hill and the Adirondacks, we should see a decrease in the mad north country traffic. Somewhat. A lot of places open to ride now and with the cold, awesome vistas! We’ll update you on the podcast which will be out by morning. Featuring (hopefully) Chaz Albertson from Saratoga Snowmobile Association and Jason Larson from Hamburg Snowmobile Club holding down the fort in WNY.
The next chance of snow? Besides the snow showers and minor lake effect around in the next 12-24 hours (see previous morning blog for snowfall map, a lot of which has already fallen, and some light snow tonight/tomorrow AM), the next chance for any accumulating snows, a chance to line up the winds for lake effect snow, will be Saturday night into Sunday. No snow map on this yet, probably on Friday I’ll release it, but it looks to be minor and not major. Based on the map above, it looks like Tuesday next week would be a much better chance of a clipper + lake effect combination. But we are 5-6 days away from that so be careful trying to go to the bank with that one just yet!
It will be cold (below freezing), it will not be as bitter cold as it will be the next few days.
The “fun” weather will be confined to the central/eastern Carolinas and Virginias with Winter Storm Watches in effect for Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand. If you want to hear more about this, head over to my Meteorologist Rich Lupia page, or check out my instagram or TikTok for more.
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