UPDATE ON TODAY (SATURDAY)

I woke up to a dull headache and hand tremors today. It is making the normal quick task of painting the accumulation and precipitation maps a significant challenge. I am doing my best, but updates today may be limited to only a few.

There seems to have been some confusion on today’s snow. As I stated yesterday, there is an early morning batch, a lull, and then a late morning into evening main batch. The early portion is finishing through Maine, and now the main body is moving through.

I have increased the accumulation amounts a bit. That cold arctic air mass we’ve had sitting here is not as cold and dry as the models have projected. I watched this yesterday morning when I was in the teens instead of single digits like the modeling previously depicted. This gave me an ounce of speculation as to whether the forecast for today was accurate, and in correlation, the forecast for tomorrow. Overnight, I allowed the models to run and I started building a forecast for Sunday-Monday’s event before I went to be. As of the 00z runs last night, the models started shifting to what I was seeing, so I let them run overnight.

For the rest of today, snow on and off with some heavy bands possible through that central darker blue area of the region. Rain and mixed precipitation at the coast with transition to more of a frozen variety as the day progresses, and up into coastal Maine will likely change over to all snow right before the finish.

Southern New England will finish between 4-7

Central between 6-9

Northern 8-11