Snow showers with some accumulations locally will continue the rest of today, tonight and linger into the first part of Saturday. Tomorrow will be the coldest day in the foreseeable future. By Tuesday, the BIG TIME THAW will be hitting.
This is your announcement. This weekend coming up, although much less areas to ride and the bases crustier and harder than they were, is looking like potentially the last decent weekend of snowmobiling. In areas where we still can. If you have not had the chance to get out… if you want to get one more decent ride with decent miles… if you want to ride a weekend where it truly feels like winter… GET OUT THERE THIS WEEKEND! Particularly Saturday.
Snow showers will continue to come on through the rest of today, tonight, and short term models are placing them into Saturday Morning now across areas downwind of Lake Ontario. Even later Saturday and into Sunday there is a possibility of light localized snows in a few areas. This is how the lake effect has been all winter long! And it looks like this is how the lake effect snow party will end for us here in Upstate NY by Sunday.
It starts to warm up Monday. Then by Tuesday the warmth hits OVERDRIVE. Normal highs are around 40-45. We will be 15 to 20 degrees above normal with that. Will we be in record territory? Nope. But we will be more than warm enough to begin to unleash the snowpack.
And as you look towards the end of next week then into the 3rd full week of March, there are no signs of this above normal air slowing down. So it does not matter how much dang snow we got. It will melt. It will melt quickly. My only question is the timing of any big rain events and the timing of any major flooding. I believe it will happen. This is not 2015. We got LUCKY that year not to get a big flood. This time we may not be so lucky.
Zack and Rich Lupia
Upstate Snow
March 7, 2025
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