Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Season's First Snow

Season's First Snow From Northern Michigan to Interior Northeast; Coldest Air Mass of Season Continues Into Monday

The coldest air mass of the season so far has swept from the Midwest into parts of the East, with widespread frost and freeze conditions and even the first snow of the season for some. Accumulating snow fell this weekend, especially near the Great Lakes. Flurries were widespread across the Northeast on Sunday.
Chilly Blast Brings Frost and Freeze Condition
Lows dipped to freezing or below (32 degrees) Sunday morning as far south as Tennessee and North Carolina, though not every location in those states saw a freeze. A few spots in the north Georgia mountains also recorded a freeze. Monday morning, lows dipped to freezing or below (32 degrees) once again in parts of Tennessee, North Carolina, north Georgia and upstate South Carolina. Farther north, parts of New England and Upstate New York saw lows in the teens or 20s Monday morning. The typically cold spot of Saranac Lake, New York, had dipped to 10 degrees as of 6 a.m. EDT. Freeze watches, warnings and frost advisories are posted into Monday morning from the Tennessee Valley to North Carolina, the mid-Atlantic, central Appalachians, portions of Long Island and coastal parts of southern New England.
  • Chicago: The suburbs had a freeze Saturday and Sunday morning, while O'Hare fell to 33 degrees. Temperatures stayed in the 50s on Sunday.

Interior Northeast/Northern Great Lakes Snow

Saturday morning, an observer near Darragh, Michigan, measured 5.7 inches of snow.
The city of Marquette picked up 2.5 inches of snow, the first time the city had seen at least two inches of snow in any single October day in 14 years, according to the National Weather Service.
Snow was reported once again in northern Michigan on Sunday morning, and to the southeast of Lake Erie in northwest Pennsylvania and southwest New York. Some higher terrain areas of Erie County and Crawford County, Pennsylvania, had picked up 4-5 inches of snow as of late Sunday morning.
Up to 9 inches of snow was measured in Oswego County, New York, in the towns of Mexico and Parish from a narrow band of lake-effect snow streaming off of Lake Ontario.
Flurries were reported across New England on Sunday afternoon, as well as parts of Pennsylvania and New York, including Long Island. A trace of snow was reported in Albany, New York as well as Bridgeport, Connecticut on Sunday.

Forecast Morning Lows

                                                                          Frost and Freeze Alerts


Original Article: http://www.wunderground.com/news/pattern-change-winter-preview-northeast-western-warmth




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