There is hope on the horizon. Starting this weekend there will be a change in the weather pattern that will lead to better lake effect snow chances and colder temperatures. It’s not exactly what you want or what we need (Big Nor’easter followed by bitter cold temps falling below zero at night for several days

Since it has been a very quiet week for Upstate NY, lets look ahead for the next week or two and see if we will stay in the doldrums.

Welcome to the doldrums. The snow is basically shut off for the next 7 days, based on what we are seeing right now. Temperatures as previously advertised will be above normal… not super warm but above freezing most days. There will be more snow in the mountains of Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia between

One more storm system to go Sunday, which will hit downstate and New England harder than Upstate NY, before an unusually quiet week ahead with above normal temperatures, especially so on overnight lows.

Winter Weather Advisories up through tomorrow morning for what I like to call a “mix mess”. This is when you start as snow, go to sleet and freezing rain, then to rain, then to mixed precip then back to snow. This afternoon and evening travel conditions will get slick across Upstate NY as that scenario

Winter Weather Advisories up for a lot of Upstate NY this afternoon and tonight. The snow showers streaking across the state today, will turn by tonight with the associated cold front swinging through, to rain/mixed precipitation then back to snow depending on elevation, since the storm is passing to our north and west. It will

The lake effect snows did get cranking into a heavy band last night and that’s why many across Upstate NY, even in the Capital Region, are waking up to “bonus snow”. Usually when winds get up into the 40-60 MPH range off Lake Ontario and you have some directional shear, the bands tend to look

A little snow, then a little wind will blow, then up and down weather the rest of the week. It’s not as bad as you think it is, it’s not as good as you think it is. Last week I thought things were looking great to setup starting this week, then it looked horrible like

Heavy lake effect snow will continue off Lake Erie into Saturday, then the big show moves to areas off Lake Ontario, mainly the northern half of Tug Hill and snowbelt areas to the north. We made some tweaks to amounts and bands based off the 3km NAM projections. Still holding the big accums basically where