January Has Been Tough!

As expected, mixed bag is starting to move to the northwest. Not sure if this link below will work but if it does, it gives you the current position of the rain/snow line. Radar is having a real hard time separating rain/mixed and snow line. I can tell you that in West Roxbury, we switched to rain at about 1PM this afternoon, after about 3 inches of heavy wet snow.

http://proa.accuweather.com/adcbin/professional/enhanced-radar.asp

- Lots of talk about a messy commute. If you aren't traveling to the west or northwest of the city, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Temps have risen to 34 degrees inside of RT 128 and at this point, it is just all rain for us.

- The cold air/warm air battle is much more interesting the further west and northwest you go. Check out our surface temperatures as of 1PM today.

The cold air won't give up inland. That makes for a problem, since as mentioned yesterday, the air just above the surface is quite warm. This is where the freezing rain and ice will be. And it could get bad. As the storm passes over Cape Cod in the early evening, warm air above will continue to flood in and will contrast with that very cold air at the surface to make things nasty out there. Good luck to those folks!

- A quick peak into the near future gives us another shot at a moderate snow storm on Thursday night into Friday. This one started out as nothing, but with each passing model run, has become more and more organized. Quick guess brings about 4-8 inches of snow all over the region by Friday afternoon. That will likely change but it appears that we continue to be in an extraordinarily active winter storm pattern.