By: Monsoon Mike
Skook dodged yet another storm today with areas just east of us getting 2 to even 3 or 4 inches. Yet again, an atmospheric block set up just outside of Schuylkill, giving us just a slight dusting in some areas, nothing in others except flurries. Sorry I busted that forecast! Can't be perfect. These things are so difficult to predict where the shield of precipitation will stop advancing. The snow haters of Skook must be doing some good anti-snow dances because we just keep missing the bigger problems. (Which should scare us because one of these days ... one of these days, it's gonna get us good! ;-) For tonight, we may not have dodged everything completely as an arctic front is moving through and some heavier squalls could move through anytime overnight, so keep that in the back of your mind if you're out and about late tonight.
One thing we can't escape, however, is the brutal cold and what's coming by Tuesday and Wednesday may make that last polar plunge feel warm compared to this. I'm talking highs maybe no better than around 7 Tuesday. 12 Wednesday. Yes, 7 and 12!
Milder air moves in later in the week, but absent are any bigger storms, but always the ever-present chance of these smaller storms, any of which could surprise us with more, like last week's gig. You just gotta keep posted to my updates.
Oh, and tomorrow (Sunday's) snow showers in the afternoon, yeah, those could dust up the ground a bit in some areas, so keep an eye out for that.
