Snow Likely This Weekend

We are going to be finally ending what has been an astoundingly long January dry spell.

Thursday and particularly Friday look rainy. Saturday should be more showery than rainy, but the news then will be the falling temperatures.

By Saturday evening, the showers should become more continuous, and the rain should be starting to mix with snow, if it hasn’t already been doing so earlier. Soon it will change to all snow. At this point likely lowland accumulations look to be in the trace to three inches range (it should be possible to pin it down better as we get closer).

Sunday looks like a sloppy day with some melting and the precipitation will be winding up. By Sunday night, cold Fraser outflow winds should be blowing. At this point, the signals are very strong that this will not be the sort of super-cold, super-strong outflow that sends temperatures tumbling towards 0˚F like we had in January of last year. This should be a more garden-variety cold snap: highs around freezing, lows in the upper teens to around 20.

At least this is how the timing looks right now. I plan to post my next update on Thursday evening.