Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone! While many of you will be in a loving mood tomorrow, you may not be loving some of this weather…
Snowstorms trail across the Plains and Great Lakes into the Appalachian Mountains dropping up to 3 inches of snow in parts of West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland tonight into tomorrow. Meanwhile, the Southeast is being hit with rain or a possible wintry mix for tomorrow. Rain will also affect the Pacific Northwest Tuesday, but clears out for the most part by Wednesday. The following graphic shows the snow accumulation over the next 48 hours, although the accumulation is small the area of snow cover is fairly widespread throughout the continental U.S.
In Champaign-Urbana tomorrow morning something will be falling from the sky, but it won’t be candy hearts or Cupid’s arrows, instead expect to see a freezing drizzle or some flurries. The high for tomorrow will reach 37°F with a morning low of 27°F. The cold precipitation will clear out, but skies will remain overcast throughout the day and winds will be from the SSW at 6-12 mph. For Wednesday temperatures pick back up into the 40s with a daytime high of 44°F and low of 28°F. Despite the slight warm up we have another round of precipitation coming, but this time in the form of rain. Skies will be mostly cloudy throughout the day with a chance of showers in the afternoon and into the evening hours. Winds will be from the S between 7-15mph becoming strongest in the overnight hours.
In addition, the National Weather Service has issued a Special Weather Statement for Champaign-Urbana valid until 12 a.m February 14 urging drivers to be careful if traveling this evening as snow showers may linger until about midnight. Meanwhile a freezing drizzle has developed in the West and is moving eastward towards us making roads very icy and slippery.
ReplyDeleteMy forecasted temperatures for Tuesday were almost spot on with the actual high reaching 37°F and my forecasted low just one degree cooler. The precipitation only brought trace amounts, but did fall as a mix of freezing drizzle and flurries. Meanwhile winds were actually more from the
ReplyDeletesouth, but were between 6-12 mph. For Wednesday, my predicted high was 4 degrees too warm and my predicted low 3 degrees too cold. We did see rain showers throughout the day into the evening as I had believed. On Wednesday, majority of winds were from the SW and moving at an average speed of 10.2 mph just minimally smaller than what I had said.