The weather is going to be very active this week. We've got a wind event today out in front of a cold front with some snow through Tuesday morning, then Tuesday night through Thursday morning we have a clipper coming through, and Thursday night through Friday morning a smaller clipper streams through north while another system approaches from the south that should bring some focused snow through the Saturday ski day, and then Sunday what looks like strong clipper may also make an entrance.
Let me catch my breath (or rest my fingers). That's 5 different systems in 6 days. Here's what thee GFS is presently showing from Monday through Sunday.
If you can't tell, the Northeast is on the edge of the Polar Jet Stream which is bringing shortwaves in rapid succession and then an upper level low currently off the coast of California will mosey along outside of the steering flows and eventually run into that boundary creating some weather for the weekend.
I like changing up the format to better fit the weather rather than staying consistent, so what I'm going to do this week is start with Tuesday because today's weather has already been shared and updated and the snow comes through after close. I will first go over the temperatures in brief and then jump into the forecasting for each of the 5 systems with some updated wind hold and snowfall forecasts through Thursday morning, and a deeper discussion about the the two more notable weekend systems.
I won't be covering the extended range this week due it being to too much for one article, but I will say that the following week probably has the Polar Jet draped across the Northeast for much of it similar to this week, but right now it looks less active. It doesn't seem to have big coastal storm potential without any notable troughs currently in the modeling, but you never know at that distance of course. I would certainly rather cover one big storm than 5 smaller ones :)
