7:00 AM | **Brutal cold today with sub-zero wind chills; snow tonight could accumulate a coating to a couple of inches**
Paul Dorian
6-Day Forecast
Today
Brutal cold with mostly cloudy skies, breezy, high temperatures only able to reach the low-to-middle teens, sub-zero wind chills
Tonight
Bitter cold with cloudy skies and some snow likely, accumulations of a coating to a couple of inches possible, lows in the upper single digits
Wednesday
Still very cold with partly sunny skies, upper teens
Wednesday Night
Extreme cold with clear skies and lows in the single digits
Thursday
Mostly sunny skies, cold, but not nearly as harsh, mid-to-upper 20’s
Friday
Partly sunny, cold, low-to-mid 30’s
Saturday
Mostly cloudy, milder, chance for rain and/or snow showers, near 40
Sunday
Partly sunny, breezy, colder, mid 30’s
Discussion
A powerful Arctic front plowed through the region yesterday and it ushered in another bitter cold Arctic air mass that had its origins over Siberia on the other side of the North Pole. Temperatures this morning range from 37 below in Longville, Minnesota to 14 below at Madison, Wisconsin to 3 below in State College, Pennsylvania. In fact, this is the 6th time this month there have been below zero readings in State College and that hasn't happened since January 1977 when there were eight measurements below zero.
Temperatures around here today will struggle to get past the low-to-middle teens for highs and wind chill values will be sub-zero for much of the day. Low pressure along the Southeast US coast will spread snow and ice from Texas to southeastern Virginia over the next 12-24 hours and it now appears the I-95 corridor is likely to receive some snow - perhaps on the order of a coating to a couple of inches in and around the big cities - with the lesser amounts to the north and west and the higher amounts to the south and east. As we get closer and closer to the event time the computer forecast models have tended to expand the precipitation shield farther and farther to the north and west which is not too surprising given a normal southeast bias with coastal storm tracks. Several inches of snow is likely later tonight across coastal sections of southern and central New Jersey. An easing of the bitter cold will occur later this week as this Siberian air mass gradually lifts out of the Mid-Atlantic region. Saturday is likely to be the warmest day of the next several with high temperatures near 40 degrees. Colder air returns for Super Bowl Sunday into the Mid-Atlantic region, but it is a moderately cold air mass and not like the current bitter cold.
Stay tuned.
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