monsoonmartin

My nana was fond of saying that--sometimes in a moment of idle ennui, sometimes when we were playing 500 Rummy and she got an inauspicious deal (or, "I've got a hand like a foot"), sometimes when something annoyed her.  She was a rough-around-the-edges, gleefully profane little lady.  I miss her.

Anyway, my nana's "shit and two is eight" is apropos here and now, given that we're getting snow tomorrow that will probably close school.

Shit and two is eight.

Precipitation will start as a little snow/sleet mix by 2 or 3am early Monday, then become all snow by 5 or 6am.  Steadiest snow--and this will be a heavy, wet snow with large, juicy flakes--will fall from 8 or 9am to about 1pm.  Snow tapers and ends by about 3 or 4pm.  (Rain/snow line and set-up of intense banding can push totals higher in some places and greatly reduce totals for areas close by.)

Snowfall amounts:

Philly, burbs, Trenton, Lancaster County, Chester County: 5-7 inches

Reading and Berks, Allentown, South Jersey: 3-5 inches

Extreme South Jersey and Southern Delaware: 1-3 inches

Cancellation potentials (for Reading/Berks only):

Delay Monday, 15%

Cancellation Monday, 70%

Early dismissal Monday, 35% 

Hoff, People's Choice Awards presenter, 1984.High will only about about 36, and that will happen early in the morning.  Temperatures will fall, then hold steady just below freezing for the bulk of the day.

The roads will freeze overnight into Tuesday, so delays would be reasonable.  High in the mid 30s.

Delay Tuesday, 40%

Cancellation Tuesday, 15%

The second system of the week will move through beginning about 8pm Tuesday night and continuing to early Wednesday afternoon.  Precipitation will begin as snow and sleet overnight, but will mix with (and change to) rain by about 7 or 8am Wednesday.  So a delay is feasible, but a cancellation is less likely.

Delay Wednesday, 60%

Cancellation Wednesday, 40%

Sunny Thursday but windy and colder: high of only 31.  Similar action on Friday.  Saturday 2/8 looks overcast and cold (high 28), but snow-free.  Sunday still looks snowy, though.

Stay tuned for ... *sighhhhh*

Monsoon