Wintry Hits Upcoming

January 13, 2026 9:11am

After a milder Tuesday upcoming and then eyes will again turn back to a more wintry setup and a more consistent wintry setup. At least for the upcoming short to mid range period(8-14days)

That gets kicked off with the first “impactful”event starting Wednesday. Wednesday itself looks to Elevational dependent as far as liquid vs frozen, accumulating vs melting and those marginal temps lays out right across our Elevation range to create some differences.

2500′ to 3200′ Light precip that begins with temps 33-37°, starts off with a drier low level surface air. That can help flakes reach to 2500′ or lower. As the air mass moistens up, mid 30s at the surface, with light precip should allow for a mix of liquid and wet snow to alternate back and forth through the day with little or no accumulation. At 3000-3500′ temps 30-34°. Some light snow, light rain mix. Light slushy accumulations possible Wednesday. As you go 3500’+ Temps in the upper 20s and lower 30s should allow for most of Wednesday to be in the snow form and mostly light precip but enough to put down 1″ to 2″ by nightfall.

By nightfall, elevation will begin to lose being a the big factor as far as the marginal temps and precip tupe and widespread accumulations Wednesday night/Thursday.

Not a big snow, but impactful accumulations look likely.

From Garrett,Preston, Somerset, Fayette, Westmoreland, Cambria, a 2-5″ type event. Leaning low to mid on that range and the Wv high ground total snowfall including Wednesday in the 4-7″ range. Again leaning low to mid on that range. A good performance can max out.

● A look at the Euro for this event

Model precip type at the grid doesn’t do the best job at exact details, but gives a good idea.

●Jumping to the 850 temps. Essentially the Wv high ground. (In celcius- 0/Grey is freezing and below). While precipitating, theres no daytime diurnal across the high ground, so when you see -1, -2° C , that should equate to wet snow 3200- 3500′ and up with marginal temps and that gets colder as you go up in Elevation and temps below freezing to the surface 3700- 4000’+. The grid point on the modeled sounding( 2500′) the surface is above freezing, and saturated so likely to mix in some liquid, or the very least wet snow that won’t accumulate, with the exception of any pockets of moderate precip. Thats the theme of the day 3200′ and below.

as we go later in to the evening the colder air sweeps across and temps, elevation not a precip type factor.

Snowfall amounts off the models through Thursday :

•Off the Euro

•Off the GFS

●Beyond that:

• Another disturbance Friday-Saturday that can put down 2-4″ +/-. Bit far out for details.

And again Monday. All drier northern branch systems, high ratio, low liquid as we have been seeing mostly.

The incoming cold tomorrow night and Thursday will lead to temps in the single digits over the Wv tops, lower teens elsewhere. Windchills -10 to -20 Wv tops , 0 to -10 elsewhere.(winds gusting 35-50)

-windchills

●IN SUMMARY:

• Wednesday- light moisture, Elevation plays a role through the day on precip type, any accumulation
• Wednesday Night-Thursday, much colder, widespread accumulations. Not a major snow, but impacting
• More winter hits in to the weekend and next week.