Hazardous Weather Potential

Ted Jacobson skywarn at frognet.net
Sun Jan 25 07:21:30 EST 2009


HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
519 AM EST SUN JAN 25 2009

ACCUMULATING SNOW IS POSSIBLE LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY NIGHT.
DURING TUESDAY NIGHT...THE SNOW COULD CHANGE TO SLEET AND
FREEZING RAIN IN WEST VIRGINIA...RESULTING IN SOME ICE ACCUMULATION
AS WELL. FOR OHIO...THE PRECIPITATION IS LIKELY TO REMAIN ALL SNOW.

THIS FEATURE COULD WARRANT WINTER STORM WATCHES/WARNINGS.
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TABULAR FORECAST FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
430 AM EST SUN JAN 25 2009

ROWS INCLUDE...
DAILY PREDOMINANT DAYTIME WEATHER 6AM-6PM
FORECAST TEMPERATURES...EARLY MORNING LOW/DAYTIME HIGH
PROBABILITY OF PRECIPITATION NIGHTTIME 6PM-6AM/DAYTIME 6AM-6PM

FCST     FCST     FCST     FCST     FCST     FCST     FCST
TODAY    MON      TUE      WED      THU      FRI      SAT
JAN 25   JAN 26   JAN 27   JAN 28   JAN 29   JAN 30   JAN 31
======   ======   ======   ======   ======   ======   ======
MOCLDY   MOCLDY   SNOW     SNOW     MOCLDY   MOCLDY   PTCLDY
--/29    18/31    19/27    24/31    22/37    24/25    13/35
--/40    40/10    40/60    60/50    50/20    40/40    40/10

...DISCUSSION...

TODAY WILL START OUT SUNNY...BUT CLOUDS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE AS
AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES TOWARD THE REGION FROM THE MIDWEST.
IT WILL BRING SOME LIGHT SNOW OR FLURRIES TO PORTIONS OF THE AREA
LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY SOUTHEAST OHIO AND
NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA.

THAT SYSTEM MOVES OUT MONDAY...LEAVING CHILLY WEATHER IN ITS WAKE
WITH A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF CLOUDINESS HANGING AROUND.  A MUCH
MORE IMPORTANT LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL APPROACH MONDAY NIGHT AND
MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT.  THIS SYSTEM IS
LIKELY TO BRING SNOW TO EASTERN KENTUCKY AND THE SOUTHWEST PORTION
WEST VIRGINIA...SAY UP THROUGH CHARLESTON...BY DAWN TUESDAY.

SNOW WILL THEN OVERSPREAD MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST OHIO
TUESDAY.  HOWEVER...AS WARMER ARE MOVES UP FROM THE SOUTH DURING
THE DAY...THE PRECIPITATION WILL MIX WITH AND THEN CHANGE TO SLEET
AND FREEZING RAIN TUESDAY AFTERNOON...AND THEN PERHAPS JUST RAIN FOR
A TIME TUESDAY NIGHT...FOR SOUTHERN AND EVEN CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA.

KEEP TUNED TO THE LATEST FORECASTS AS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERAL
INCHES SNOW ACCUMULATION AND THEN SOME ICE ACCUMULATION WILL LIKELY
WARRANT THE ISSUANCE OF WATCHES AND THEN WARNINGS AS THE EVENT DRAWS
NEAR.

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