Stormy Period Begins

As the traffic line of storms continues  we are looking at a mostly rain event this week both today and then towards the end of the week. Over the week, the storm track will take the low pressures into the Ohio River Valley  and up into the northeast. These are known as "Lake Cutters" and are not good news for east coast snow lovers. Low Pressures to the west keep us in the warm sector since we would be on the east side. Even if a extremely cold air mass was in place, we would see a front end thump and then transition to freezing precipitation and rain just based on how the upper levels of the atmosphere get flooded with warm air. That being said, it will still be an active pattern and storms now appear to be lined up past Christmas. We are in need of one of these storms to get to that 50/50 position to clog up the pipeline of storms. Once this happens, and we can secure some colder air, we will be in business. The trick is, we need this to happen while we are in a conducive storm pattern as we are in now. Keep your fingers crossed.