April 3, 2024 Outlook

April 3, 2024 Outlook

Colder air incoming this evening, precip transitioning over to snow. Snow activity Thursday. Areas below 3000-3500′ likely meltback during the day tomorrow  While up high holds on to light accumulations.

  1-2″ Tonight above 3500′, little below that and 1-2″; tomorrow on the tops above 3500′  as elsewhere melts back of whatever falls . So 2-4″ on tops by late tomorrow afternoon while lower elevations again melt back by then.

 Then Thursday night in to Friday a.m. looks like a good period of snow. 1-3″ 2000-2500 2-4″ 2500-3000, 3-6″ 3000-3500′ 4-8″ 3500’+ 

  Friday likely some meltback especially below 3000′ , as Friday is a bit colder. Friday night in to Saturday another 1-3″ 2500-3500 , 3500+ 2-5″

Cold temps through Saturday with lingering snow activity

Snowfall off the models

AGAIN DO NOT LOOK AT THESE AND EXPECT THAT TO BE WHAT YOU HAVE ON THE GROUND. MELTBACKS OCCUR BELOW 3500′. However, you may tally  1″ melt, 3″ half melt, 2″ melt. And see 6″ of accumulation but never have 2 or 3 on the ground at any time and even bare up some. This is more likely below 3000 to 3500 to occur. Tops should remain in gain mode mostly.

18z gfs

18z ECMWF

Those vertical charts of my thoughts that can be carried through the Alleghenies with the setup

NWS Advisories

Use the drop-down menu for their details on the website under snowfall info.

Eclipse for Monday. Modeling has lots of variation in how much  cloud cover.

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