WEATHER BLOG: Some Snow Coming

High pressure will attempt to linger over the area but will be reduced to surface ridging from the southwest and northeast today, as a coastal storm will attempt to ride up the coast while a second low moves into the Great Lakes.

This will pinch that high till it disappears. Until then, we should see a good deal of sunshine with warm air flooding the region ahead of the upper trough. Overall today will be a beautiful day, and based on the long range it may be the last time we see such a nice day for quite some time, at least in the next 7 days and likely the next 14.

We descend into a much more unfortunate pattern heading into early next week. We still appear to have dodged a bullet with the coastal storm on Monday, as once it leaves the Carolinas we don't expect the precipitation shield to touch the coast until it reaches eastern Long Island and eastern New England.

While that storm skirts us to the east, the upper trough will present some difficulties on Monday into Tuesday. The Great Lakes low will jump off the Virginia Coast, and push an inverted trough back into the mid-Atlantic. An area of heavier snow will set up somewhere between northern Virginia and New York City. It worth mentioning some travel difficulties and the potential for significant accumulation Monday night into Tuesday right now, but the confidence on where is still very low.

Beyond Tuesday, the pattern looks to be moving towards colder but drier weather. The upper trough will swing continental polar air into the northeast and temperatures should end up below normal, which will feel very chilly when compared to how the month started.