Frigid, then snow
The mercury sank to 11 degrees at BWI this morning, and the forecast for the overnight low tonight is a mere 7 degrees. And if that's not wintry enough for you, the folks out at Sterling are saying that there's an Alberta Clipper headed our way overnight Tuesday into Wednesday that could drop an inch or two of snow on the roads by rush hour Wednesday morning. Or maybe more if we get lucky. Here's a snippet from this morning's discussion at Sterling:
"WILL HAVE TO MONITOR THIS
SYSTEM CLOSELY AS PREDICTING SNOW AMOUNTS WITH CLIPPER SYSTEMS CAN
SOMETIMES BE VERY CHALLENGING. ALTHOUGH AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED ON THE
LIGHT SIDE IT COULD CAUSE BIG IMPACTS ON HIGHWAYS AS TEMPERATURES
WILL BE VERY COLD (ONLY ABOUT 20F) AND SNOW WILL BE JUST IN TIME FOR
THE WED MORNING RUSH HOUR."
Are we having fun yet?
This morning's low of 11 degrees, as bracing as it was, wasn't close to the record of minus-1 degree F. for the date, set in 1996. Tomorrow's record is plus-1 degree, set in 1895. We won't touch that one either at BWI. Anybody get colder readings than BWI? It was 11 on the WeatherDeck in Cockeysville, and 10 on the car thermometer.
Still not wintry enough for you? Go visit my mother-in-law in Erie, Pa., where the lake-effect snow is still piling up. Erie International Airport is snowy, but open.
Comments
Last night my thermometer in Timonium registered a low of 6.4 degrees.
Posted by: Bryan Fischer | February 5, 2007 11:43 AM
The 12z forecast models seem to want to take the brunt of this clipper system into central VA & S. MD.
Very Cold temps would give good liquid to snow ratios though so even .1" could yield an inch an a half or so.
Posted by: mike | February 5, 2007 11:49 AM
Hey, I live in Erie, PA and it was only 3F yesterday morning and 7F this morning. We've had about 40 inches of snow just in January alone. And until the lake freezes over, we'll keep getting more snow.
Posted by: Lynn | February 5, 2007 11:54 AM
I live in Dayton, Maryland (western Howard County.) At 5:30 this morning my thermometer read 8 degreees, and it just went downhill from there. Down to 5.5 degrees by 7:45 Even the thermometer in the truch read 8 degrees as the sun was coming up..
Posted by: Mark | February 5, 2007 12:41 PM
6.3 degrees F in Darlington around 7:30 this morning, after sunrise, but before daytime warming (if you can call it that) started up.
Posted by: Kevin | February 5, 2007 12:41 PM
It seems Pasadena was the warm spot: 14 when I fetched the paper.
Posted by: Dave | February 5, 2007 1:59 PM
I live in Upper Crossroads and have my WeatherBug set for Jarrettsville. Monday morning's low at Norrisville Elementary School was 4 degrees, and the high only made it to 13. When I pulled out of my driveway near Hess Road and Fallston Road at 7:00AM, it was 7 degrees.
Posted by: Trebort49 | February 6, 2007 12:06 AM