FINALLY! Snow in the Forecast

    Wisconsin, welcome to Winter!  A snowstorm is in the forecast beginning tomorrow into Friday and accompanied with that potential the National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Watch for most of eastern and central Wisconsin.  Most likely this will eventually switch over to a Winter Storm Warning for most of the area and the remaining area that is not under a warning will be under an advisory.

    The potential is there to get as much as a foot of snow through Friday in some areas.  Yesterday, most of the models finally came to agree with one another that a significant snowstorm was imminent.  Northeastern Wisconsin is forecast for 6-10”, southeastern Wisconsin could see anywhere from 8-12”, and parts of central Wisconsin (including portions of the Fox Valley) could see anywhere from 8-14”. (See the link on front page of my blog NAM/GFS snowfall totals for up-to-date snow forecasts)

   Associated with this storm will be a significant drop in temperatures along with some strong winds that could cause blowing and drifting along there areas of snowfall.  Temperatures will dip into the 20s for high temperatures by Friday and into the single digits by Friday night.

    So in other words, enjoy the last nice January day today as temperatures will reach around 50 degrees but weather conditions will begin to deteriorate late tonight. 
 

With January, Will We See Snow Soon?

    We have now entered the month of January and we are still well below average for snow fall here in southeastern Wisconsin.  We have seen just under 2” of snow and for the next few days that will not change.  Although the past few days we have seen more “winter-like” conditions with highs in the 20s, we have yet to see the full force snow storm that hinders many in the dark winter season.

    Over the weekend we did see a storm disturbance drop a few inches of snow to most of Wisconsin and we even felt the winter cold with our coldest temperatures of the season yesterday but when will we see old man winter?  Well, for you snow lovers, it is not looking good as we will see a warm front push across the area later this week helping temperatures up into the middle 40s for southeastern Wisconsin.  

    For you snow lovers, you will have to wait until next week to see any chance of some snow.   Next Thursday and Saturday appears to be our next best chance as two areas of disturbance, back to back, will race across the Great Lakes and give us that chance of some winter weather.   Both could give us accumulating snow.  Things could change from now until then but those systems will be next time we see snow anytime soon.