Potent Clipper To Spread More Widespread Snowfall

I wanted to provide this post yesterday but I was WAAY to busy at the station with regards to the horrific shooting at the University of Alabama Huntsville. My thoughts and prayers are with the injured and the affected families. May God bring all involved peace during this trying time. I still am at wonder at how someone could do such a heinous act of violence on others. I know I have had days go "really" bad but I would never think of shooting others. Even if I was extremely frustrated with others. The last week for those of us in northern Alabama has been shocking. Never did we think it would happen here but now it has, TWICE! It is time now for all of us to bind closer to bring back our sense of security for the region.

Now, back to what I do and love, forecasting the weather. A very strong upper level disturbance and associated surface "Clipper" system will be dropping out of central Canada and will be diving southward through the Plains Saturday and Saturday night. With it will be a wide swath of 2" to 5" of new snowfall. This area will stretch from the eastern Dakotas through southwestern Minnesota and western Iowa, yes Des Moines looks like more snow for you. The 2"-5" snow will continue to stretch southeastward through much of Missouri for Chillicothe to St. Louis to Paducah. Then it appears that the 2" to 4" band will greatly widen as we head through Sunday night and Monday. I will draw the northern boundary of the 2"-5" along the Ohio River from Paducah to Cincinnati then up to Canton, Ohio then eastward to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, northward to Syracuse. On the southend, will start the boundary Newark, New Jersey to Philadelphia to Baltimore to Bristol, Virginia, along the spine of the Appalachians into Chattanooga, across northern Jackson County in Alabama into Franklin County Tennessee to Crossville, TN to Paducah. Surround the 2"-5" will be a large area of 1" to 2" of snow that will sink back into the south from Jackson, Mississippi to Birmingham to near Atlanta. For those of you in Alabama and especially the Tennessee Valley, I encourage you to check back later this evening after 8 PM as I will refine my thoughts.