Sunshine returns...

Take a look at today's edition of the Carolina Weather Video. Lots to talk about.....some milder weather through the weekend, then I spend a lot of time on our system next week. Plus, a peek deeper into February....

What an impressive storm system the most recent one turned in to! We had anything from lightning and thunder to rain, sleet, and snow across our region, but the heavy, wet snow really got cranking from the mountains up through the Virginias into southern New England. Thundersleet and thundersnow hit right before the evening commute in D.C., and the result was a disastrous go of it.

Many spots from DC up through SE PA, MD, CT, RI, into New York City and MA picked up over 15" of snow. And this was heavy, wet, caking snow....over 500,000 power outages at one point!

Around here, the weather will be pretty docile the next few days, and we will actually squeeze in a little period of milder temps tomorrow through the weekend. Highs Saturday will surge well up into the 50s with lots of sun.

Next week...

As of the morning model runs, the Euro actually bowed to the more suppressed solutions on some of the other modeling with the track of the system next week. Taken verbatim, the Euro, GFS, and Canadian all show some wintry precip to some degree across portions of the region.

I am not sold as of yet. However, will say that another blast of true arctic air looks to plunge into the nation's midsection early in the week, and that arctic air will bleed southward and will get increasingly shallow as it moves.

As several pieces of energy eject from the western US, there are lots of possibilities on the table for how things might work out.....stay tuned. The latest Euro had a much higher-amplitude ridge near the west coast, and that caused our system to take a more southerly track with its 0z run. We will see how future runs unfold.