Despite the start of spring only being four days away, we are talking about yet another chance for significant snowfall across the region Sunday night into Monday. Old man winter is not done yet!
If you think this winter has been crazy, keep in mind, we had snow accumulation as late as March 25 last year, so snow this late in the season is rare, but not necessarily unprecedented.
Currently our storm is moving up from the southwest, and is expected to start bringing precipitation into our region Sunday evening starting after 5 p.m. Precipitation may begin as a brief period of rain and sleet, but will quickly change over to all snow during the overnight hours. The majority of the storm will be snow. The highest accumulations will occur during the overnight hours. Snow will continue into the early afternoon hours of Monday with accumulations topping out anywhere between 3 and 6 inches. The highest snow totals will occur along the I-81 corridor where they could see as much as a foot of snow. The snow will not impact areas to our north. Places like Philadelphia will only see around an inch of snow.
Is this the last snow? It’s hard to tell this winter, but trends are showing temperatures to remain slightly below average into April. That’s not to say it won’t get warm, but the average trend is for cooler temperatures.
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