Daily Weather Pattern Discussion...The True Big Daddy?

Hello this is Junior Meteorologist Kyle Elliott with our daily weather pattern discussion...and let me tell you, we are going into a wild and wacky time of things here in the eastern U.S. as many storms are going to be affecting the region over the next 10 days along with snows and warm spells. So basically, keep a tight hold onto your hats as some wild times are coming soon! Anyways, let me take ya'll through things step by step here this evening...and I might as well start with the clipper storm of tonight. As I expected last night, I am going to be forced to tone down my forecast accumulations for southern portion of Pennsylvania as it appears to be in a "rip-off zone" this time around...with only a mere dusting to an inch or two of snow falling in the York/Lancaster/and Harrisburg areas of south-central PA. Farther north from Johnstown to Williamsport to Allentown and Easton, a general 3-5 inches of snow will fall with some locally higher amounts around Johnstown and Easton. As the storm moves offshore tonight, it will bomb out and give New England another great snowstorm with a general 6-12 inches of snow falling over a wide area from Massachusetts to New Hampshire to Vermont to Maine. After this storm totally moves through by tomorrow afternooon, a one-day shot of cold air will move through the region tomorrow into early Sunday before a SPRING-LIKE WARM UP races into the region on Monday. For tomorrow and Sunday, though, expect temperatures ranging from the 30s to the 40s statewide with some possible 50 degree readings in the south and west by late Sunday afternoon. All of the arctic chill will be long gone by Monday, though, as temperatures will race into the lower to middle 60s for most of the state as a powerful spring-like warm front races across the region. Let me tell you, I am getting pumped up for this warm spell as I can finally...and I mean finally...get outside and do some fun stuff again! Enough of this being cooped up crap...I'm just sick and tired of it! Anyways, Tuesday should bring more of the same with highs in the 60s and 70s for most of the state as a powerful storm system brings in much warm air from the Gulf of Mexico as the storm center rides up west of the Appalachian Mountains. Severe weather may also become a serious threat Tuesday if enough moisture and warm air get involved in this storm...so please...PLEASE...if severe weather becomes a serious issue on Tuesday, take precautions and listen to the latest watches and warnings issued from the National Weather Service! After that storm moves through on Wednesday, a moderate airmass will move in behind the storm...but unlike most airmasses, this one will continue to get colder and colder day by day until models bring a brute winter storm up the Eastern Seaboard around March 8th. I'm not ready to jump onto the snowstorm bandwagon for this storm just yet, but I must admit, I am getting excited again for the possibility of a big snowstorm. In fact, I may go out of spring mode around March 4th to cover this snowstorm possibility if it is still on the models by then...but I will only be in that mode for about 5-6 days if I do infact decide to go into it again. So right now, it looks good to me for a nice last-minute snowstorm, but please don't get your hopes up as it is still 8 days out yet and MUCH can happen. But snow-lovers, keep your fingers crossed as maybe, just maybe, we can get our long-awaited BIG DADDY in the wild and tricky month of March. And if the models are right, that would not be the last snowstorm...all I'll say right now is: "Beware the Ides of March!" So that's about all I have for now, so hope ya'll have a great rest of your evening, enjoy the snow tonight, and I'll talk to ya'll tomorrow! This is Junior Meteorologist (Storm Tracker) Kyle Elliott reporting for the AKStormtracker Forecasting Center!