Weather Update for Saturday, 16 January 2010
Given Friday’s chaotic flavor at Mifflin—45-minute power outage to begin the day, necessitating an altered schedule; unplanned fire alarm halfway through the day, precipitating a trek across the street and another adjusted schedule—folks have been asking me when we can look forward to a snow day in the near future. I regret to inform you that there will be none next week, but I am happy to report that there is hope beyond that.
As far as Sunday’s event, I think we’re looking at all rain there. The rain could be heavy at times, particularly by the late afternoon and through the evening. Rain tapers overnight and could mix with a bit of sleet, but I feel confident this will be insignificant.
Temperatures continue to moderate from the below-normal deep freeze we had prior to this week. Expect highs low 50s today (Saturday) with the low only getting into the low 30s as clouds increase ahead of the storm system.
Sunday 1/17 will be rainy, as previously mentioned, breezy and chilly, with temperatures nearly steady in the mid 30s for the duration of the day.
Monday’s high will be in the mid-40s with mostly clear skies. A system comes through that could give us a coating overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, but it’s more likely that it’ll miss us altogether.
Wednesday 1/20 and Thursday 1/21 will be partly to mostly cloudy with highs in the upper 30s and lows into the low 20s.
Friday 1/22 could bring a little rain (and perhaps mixed precipitation late) ahead of a weak cold front, but again, this is not exactly a blockbuster.
I’m looking at a few potential schedule-changers for those of us charged with molding young minds. Depending on temps and timing, Monday morning the 25th could be just sleety and slippery enough to cause a delay, but not much more. An ice storm brewing around Friday the 29th could give us—dare we dream?—a glorious midwinter three-day weekend.
Beyond that, and into February, the pattern is setting up for another deep freeze and conditions are right for accumulating snowfall, which bodes well for wintry precipitation.
Stay tuned!