Late Week Storm

With a Winter Weather Advisory in effect until 1 PM today, you can expect sloppy, slippery conditions this morning as the sleet eventually changes over to all rain in the afternoon. Don't even think about it: tomorrow's commute to school will be fine.

We will have mild and calm weather to start the week, but some ingredients are in play for a big storm Thursday night into Friday. We will have cold air to our north and two pieces of energy coming at us from the south and west. The models are all showing moderate to heavy precipitation amounts. The big ifs for this storm will be the snow/mixed precip/rain quandary that we often see in these late winter disturbances. We will have much more to say about this developing situation as the week progresses.

This map shows how much liquid is predicted for the Friday storm. If we use a lower snow-to-liquid ratio (because we'll be right around freezing with this storm) to translate this image into snow, we would see 5 to 10 inches from this storm.

Enjoy the last day of vacation. We'll have daily updates about the end of the week storm starting tomorrow.