First storm underdelivered, second storm may not deliver at all
Late Tuesday night, one of the computer models showed us receiving an epic 18+ inches of snow by Friday.
Now that same model shows us getting little if any additional snow.
Why the difference? The track of the next storm has been pushed farther and farther to the south. It's now so far south that it could bring snow to northern Mississippi.
To get a big snow here, storms typically need to track across southern Arkansas. That looked to be the case yesterday, but the consensus of the latest computer models puts the track through Louisiana.
As a result of the shift by the computer models, the official NWS forecast for Cape only calls for a 40% chance of snow/sleet/freezing rain Thursday night, and even that might be generous.
Of course, the situation could easily flip-flop again. The last storm defied the forecast by first bringing freezing rain and sleet instead of all snow. And then it totally fizzled on us. So the next one could easily surprise us as well.
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