[Csiko]

About what time does that front finally pass us? Another few hours?

Think it'll freeze over by the evening commute or afterward? Hopefully it dries out a bit before that...

[mikelizard860]

What's the deal with 4 days in a row on snow thursday night to saturday?

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by Csiko

About what time does that front finally pass us? Another few hours?

Think it'll freeze over by the evening commute or afterward? Hopefully it dries out a bit before that...

Front is overhead now. Your winds should have shifted coming from the W now. Give it few hours to finally clear through. Temps dropping from here on out. Should be below freezing by 8pm everywhere. maybe someone can post a piece of NWS Discussion to see what they say about the flash freeze possibility.

Current Surface map

Originally Posted by mikelizard860

What's the deal with 4 days in a row on snow thursday night to saturday?

Looking at the latest GFS12z loop it looks too warm for all snow but I'm sure we can squeeze out a couple inches somewhere.. I haven't been following. Winter Pattern wont be back until end of January after this cold shot next couple days.

[Cambium]

Interesting... CT was warmer than Baltimore this morning. BDR actual High of 55° today. BWI only 45°.

[Csiko]

Originally Posted by Cambium

Front is overhead now. Your winds should have shifted coming from the W now. Give it few hours to finally clear through. Temps dropping from here on out. Should be below freezing by 8pm everywhere. maybe someone can post a piece of NWS Discussion to see what they say about the flash freeze possibility.

Least the commute'll be okay.

Interesting... CT was warmer than Baltimore this morning. BDR actual High of 55° today. BWI only 45°.

I also thought it was interesting that southern California and Texas were so cold. Only nice spot in the country appears to be central/south Florida. And I imagine that's also fleeting.

[Cambium]

Not a summer front and not a typical winter front. There is pure Arctic air behind all this I heard now D.C schools thinking of closing because of the cold. People in center part of country cannot step outside for 5 minutes. It's insane. Wind chills are in the 20s BELOW ZERO down to Kentucky imagine points north. Schools closed in so many locations. Mid Day and its below freezing in southern Texas.

This outbreak is crazy. And it's all pushing East. We wont feel what they are going through but we'll be on the extreme end of the coldest record range.

In the last 4 hours (11:30am-3:20pm)..

Hartford CT 58° to 44°
Islip NY 50° to 39°
Orange MA 54° to 33°
Jaffrey NH 54° to 34°

[Tubeworm]

Unbelievable...

At around 6 AM January 5th, DXR reported a low temperature of 1F. 27 HOURS LATER, at around 9 AM January 6th, DXR reported a high temperature of 58F. That's a 57 degree difference, or an average rise of 2.11F every hour. By now we are past the peak, and should fall to around 5F with wind chills -20F+ by tomorrow morning!

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by Cambium

Not a summer front and not a typical winter front. There is pure Arctic air behind all this I heard now D.C schools thinking of closing because of the cold. People in center part of country cannot step outside for 5 minutes. It's insane. Wind chills are in the 20s BELOW ZERO down to Kentucky imagine points north. Schools closed in so many locations. Mid Day and its below freezing in southern Texas.

This outbreak is crazy. And it's all pushing East. We wont feel what they are going through but we'll be on the extreme end of the coldest record range.

In the last 4 hours (11:30am-3:20pm)..

Hartford CT 58° to 44°
Islip NY 50° to 39°
Orange MA 54° to 33°
Jaffrey NH 54° to 34°

There's talk of school delays or closures tomorrow in Westchester and most of CT due to the cold,as for the Baltimore-DC area (I've read and heard from FB friends in the area that many were puzzled regarding today; the rationale was they expected the "flash freeze" to occur there in the daytime, I guess because they are further west than us), many schools in that region are already closed for tomorrow. Some NJ and Long Island districts have already declared a delay, but I have found none in CT or the NY northern suburbs that have yet.

I noticed though that up north (Albany area, northern Maine), they are not predicting quite as cold a low as they originially have (mostly 0 to 10 below versus near 30 below) because of clouds supposedly hanging tough there (but still dangerous wind chills). I'm hoping Central Park gets to 6 or below (far from impossible, Accuweather has them near 0 but NWS and others at around 5 or 6) so it gets it's first daily record low in 10 years.

Finally, yesterday had some really weird hi/lo numbers in the tri-state area:

Central Park had high of 40 and low of 27

Newark Airport, just a few miles away had both a significantly higher high (48) and much lower low (14).

Very weird (and Bridgeport too, high 43, low of 12)

[Tubeworm]

With a historical cold outbreak and eastern winds, lake effect snow is at its prime. Bands are widespread across New York State and reaching NY's eastern boarder. Don't be surprised if you see some snow showers in western CT. As for the notorious Watertown NY area, check out some of these lake effect totals....

* ACCUMULATIONS...MORE THAN 2 FEET TONIGHT...MORE THAN 2 FEET
TUESDAY...10 TO 20 INCHES TUESDAY NIGHT...AND 3 TO 5 INCHES
WEDNESDAY LEADING TO STORM TOTALS OF 6 FEET IN THE HEART OF THE BAND.

* WINDS...WEST 20 TO 30 MPH.

* WIND CHILLS...AS COLD AS 25 BELOW ZERO AT TIMES.

[Poseidon3290]

Bridgeport is on a 90 Min delay tomorrow AM.