Record Warm & Windy Monday, Colder Snow Ice Rain Tuesday Night

Posted by Tim Kelley December 15, 2008 at 9:37 pm

Southerly wind gusting over 55 mph pushed the temperature to a record highs Monday. The good news was that warm air melted a lot of ice, the bad news was more tree damage reported in Maine.
An overnight cold front passage will bring seasonable chill Tuesday.
The front stalls south of New England with low pressure tracking near Cape Cod Wednesday. The air will be cold enough for a few inches of snow in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine from Midnight Tuesday to sunset Wednesday. For Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the precipitation will transition from snow to sleet, then rain, at the shore. But inland we may have a low level wind from the north, trapping air cold enough for snow to change to sleet and freezing rain. This time though, ice accretion amounts will be less than a quarter inch, probably less than a tenth of an inch. If this forecast works out, we should not see further tree damage, but we will have icy roads with possible delays and/or cancellations Wednesday.

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