Yesterday's high temperature of 60 degrees at both Bradley Airport, and our own weather station here at CCSU gave us all a taste of Spring. Then the cold front moved in, and just before 2 AM today, the wind shifted back around to the northwest, the dew point plunged from the 40s back to the teens and suddenly, here we are back in winter once again. And it's not over yet.
A quick moving storm system will develop along the stalled front to our south and snow should break out overnight and last into the morning hours tomorrow. Look for an inch or two of the white stuff, as a prelude to a much nastier storm that will affect the region late tomorrow night and through a good portion of the day on Monday. It looks as if we could see as much as 6-8 inches of snow by the time this storm is over late Monday afternoon or Monday evening. Some areas of southern New England could see as much as a foot of snow from this storm. Still, the nature of coastal storms is their inherent unpredictability, so don't expect the broadcasters to narrow in the forecast amounts until later tonight, or, in some cases (for the more conservative forecasters) later tomorrow.
The seemingly never-ending winter of 2008-2009 marches merrily on...
