Update: Monday 2/9/15
David Hasselhoff wields a guitar like a scimitar in this undated photo. That Hasselhoff has never won a Grammy is as damning an indictment of the contemporary music industry as I have ever heard.First, allow me to invite you to my live-blogging event this evening starting at 8pm EST. I will be making snarky comments about the 2015 Grammy Awards and, I would imagine, lamenting the sorry state of the music industry. I will do so until I can take no more and/or I get tired. (You can make comments too, or reply to my comments.)
So, the weather: This is still feeling like a mainly rain event.
Rain will begin at or just before midnight. It will be mostly light. (The rain will be light. The sky will be dark until just after 7am Monday, when the sun will rise. Actually, the earth will rotate back around so the sun is again in view. Are you still reading this?)
Mixing will start around 8 or 9am - sleet will produce a slick coating on sidewalks and bridges, mainly. I don't see huge travel messes, but still, use caution. You could be driving, like, La-la-la, the road is just wet, there is no ice, I got this and then zzzzzoooop you slide a bit on an icy patch and you pee in your pants a little bit and white-knuckle it the rest of the way home.
Temperatures will hold steady right around freezing until 8-10pm, when they'll drop down below 30.
The last little bit of precipitation from this system--falling from about 4 to 8pm Monday--may even fall as some wet snow, accumulating a half-inch at most.
So my call for delays and whatnot:
Chance of delay Monday, 14%
Chance of cancellation Monday, 31%
Chance of delay Tuesday, 18%
Chance of cancellation Tuesday, 3%
Tuesday turns out sunny and a little bit breezy with highs in the mid 30s.
Wednesday, too.
Thursday is overcast with the chance of snow, but right now it just looks like scattered snow showers skirting the area.
Then it gets really cold with a low Thursday into Friday of 4 degrees, and a high on Friday of just 18 (and really windy too). Friday night into Saturday we could even see temperatures dip below zero (not wind chills, mind you; temperatures).
Balls-coldness continues right on through the weekend, actually, and we could see a bit of snow on Tuesday 2/17.
And then that's it, I think. No more winter.
Stay tuned for updates!