I’m a third-year atmospheric science student at Cornell University who has been blogging about the weather since 2011. While I’m not officially a meteorologist, I have accumulated a bit of experience forecasting both local weather (in western Maine and New Hampshire) as well as national/international weather during my time writing for weather.us and weathermodels.com. I also have experience programming in Python, teaching concepts in weather forecasting, and communicating forecast information to general audiences.
1. The rain/snow line is in whindam, springfield, montreal as of 8 pm EDT. The snow will add up to an inch at the coast. 1-3 in the foot hills and mountans.
2. The ocean storm this weekend will hit and produce some snow saturday and saturday night.
Today will feature rain in the morning changing to snow as the day goes on. This changeover to snow will happen first in the mountains then the coast will get the white stuff later in the day.
As of 5 Rina is still a hurricane with 75 mph sustained winds. The system is very disorganized and only has a scap of an eyewall left. The storm is headed for the yucatan peninsula.
97L now does not even have a remote shot at developing. I agree.
Well here we go. We have rain, some heavy moving in. This will help the cold air to filter down from the higher levels of the atmosphere. After a day of rain we will get some snow overnight. There will be no accumulation. The storm will be gone by Friday.
As I look at the models again I see that the storm tomorrow will be a little bigger than origionally thought. Not by much but this one will at least have some small accumulations. By small I mean >1-1 inch at the coast with 1-3 in the foothills and 2-4 in the larger mountains.
It looks like the storm previosly predicted to hit this weekend will stay out to sea.
The weekend storm is going out to sea so it is not a concern. There is still a slight possability that either that storm or one on tuesday could affect us.
This mornings sat. map. convection associated with a shortwave trof is building over the ohio valley. This is the snowy system. Rina is a swirl in the W. Caribbean and 97L is the convection south of PR.