In Like a Lion . . . Early

After a snowless winter for over two months, the Tri-State New York area got three to six inches of the white stuff yesterday, just before March came in.  

My immediate area only got a winter weather advisory, while other parts of the area were under a winter storm warning.  This comes after temperatures have been going up and down like a yo-yo all winter long . . . and when they go up is usually when it precipitates, hence rain instead of snow.

Tomorrow will by in the fifties so there will be a taste of spring, but the lion should roar again on Friday, when the greater New York area could experience every form of precipitation known to humankind.

Including freezing rain.

Good Lord! 

COVID On Ice

It's the worst possible forecast you can have at this time - a threat of significant (you never want to hear that word in a weather forecast!) icing in the middle of a pandemic.

The current forecast for my area hints at sleet with some light freezing rain for tonight into early tomorrow, which could produce a light glaze on bare outdoor surfaces - like streets and highways.  A more potent wintry mix delivering even more icing - possibly icing of catastrophic proportions - for Tuesday - has been in the forecast, but more recent reports seem to be backing away from this idea and suggesting plain rain that doesn't freeze on contact.  (Kentucky and Virginia haven't been so lucky, having both gotten sever ice storms already.)

So, even as the COVID virus is killing all of us, we have to deal with a winter Armageddon.  The endless cycle of storms should last another week and shut down after that, but the many rounds of bad winter weather we've been having these past couple of weeks only remind me why February has always been my least favorite month.