Good Thursday afternoon, gang. Our weekend is just around the corner and it appears the odds for snow are increasing across our region. We have a couple of systems to watch. One is blowing through here now and will bring snow showers tonight and early Friday. The other is the Super Bowl storm system we’ve been tracking here for more than a week.

Winds will continue to crank this afternoon as temps spike then crash behind a cold front. A few showers will be with us and those will change to snow showers late this evening. A northwesterly wind flow will set up and that’s likely to bring a decent period of snow showers and flurries late tonight into Friday morning.

Some light accumulations will be possible across the central and east…

GFS Snow

Another morning of slick roads will be possible. Temps on Friday will drop through the 20sĀ  with teens for wind chill readings.

That brings us to the weekend storm system. The Canadian Model had been the lone holdout in taking our low farther north into the Ohio Valley. That changed with the latest run…

Canadian

Canadian 2It’s only one run of one model, so temper those expectations. šŸ˜‰

The GFS continues to go back and forth a bit with how it wants to play the system. Here’s the latest snowfall map from that model…

GFS Snow 2

As I’ve been saying for the past few days, let’s get this thing inside 48 hours to see what kind of continuity we’re getting from the models. Throwing snowfall forecasts out there at this point would be absurd. Do we have the potential for a winter storm? Yes. Is it a for sure thing? No.

Very cold air follows that up for Monday and Tuesday and then another system tries to take aim at us by the middle of the week. That one will have even colder air to work with.

I leave you with regional radar…

Another update comes later today. Take care.