Plus & Minus

We are now 2/3 of the way through the month of January so I figured I would take a quick check back. We have now tallied almost a foot of snow, but less than an inch of liquid precipitation. Through 21 days, this creates a big surplus in the snow department, but a deficit on the liquid side.

Scratching your head on this one? Outside of January 4th, the majority of our storm systems have come into the region laced with a lot of cold air. This has kept the rain events down as well as minimized the heavy, wet snow situations. With such cold atmospheric conditions the snow has fluffed up rather efficiently.

For the future, merely trace amounts of snow will be seen Friday in the form of flurries. Sunday night's snow chance appears fairly meager with most spots receiving some minor accumulations. Looking out even further, a big system could be spinning up during the middle of the work week. Half of the models are putting us in a predicament for a big snow, but the other half of the models are warming us into a mixed precipitation situation. The extended models have been flip-flopping around a lot recently, which means the forecast for the last couple of days in January is clearly up in the air. -ADAM