Big Storm Next Week

After a 10-day semi-break from Winter, it looks like the Old Man will return on Saturday and into next week. After a rainy Friday, we'll see more seasonal temps in the 20s on Saturday, and then things get very interesting for the middle of next week, the week before our annual February vacation.

We pause for a moment to discuss your weather app on your phone. The weather apps these days are wonderful. At GSD we love the Weather Underground app. But you cannot get too excited about the long-range predictions with them. Their algorithms are fine, but they often miss the mark with the long-range forecasts. Please continue to use them but focus on their 48-hour forecasts.

We are seeing many signs that we'll have a plowable storm to contend with in the middle next week. A storm will slip into the Northwest this weekend, and that piece of energy will eventually make its way across the continental US and impact New England Tuesday and Wednesday (and maybe Thursday). Currently, some models show that the storm will slip a little too far to our north and not have a major impact on us, but other models are hinting that the main low pressure system will drop far enough south to give us a strong New England storm.

Thanks to the Cranky Weather Guy (@crankywxguy) for this image.

We're too far out to know for sure what is going to happen, but we are optimistic about some kind of delay or snow day for Wednesday. Yoha!

We will be tracking this storm all weekend and cannot wait to see how it develops--we have a good feeling. Even though a week of vacation looms, few people we know will complain about a midweek snow day as we head into vacation.

Check in over the weekend as we'll post new information as soon as we have good intel about the approaching New England storm.