Current Weather Conditions for Thursday, March 1st 2012

That was quite the bought of weather we had earlier this week. The streets and sidewalks are still covered in slush, really deep slush actually. Looking at the surface map below you will notice that remnent of the storm is currently located over the northern reaches of New England and is no longer our worry.



 Well with this latest storm out of our hair let's take a gander at today's current weather conditions and the conditions we can expect moving into tonight and tomorrow morning. Currently we find ourselves in a high pressure system generating steady 6mph W winds, a temperature of 32 degrees Fahrenheit, and 100% altostratus cloud cover.

Moving on, look at the water vapor satellite map courtesy of Unysis taking note of the defined black channel running from the southwest area of the country through North Carolina and Virginia. This is what is known as a dry line.



Since the dry line is very evident today I wanted to point it out to you. A dry line is essentially the boundary between two airmasses of significant moisture content differences.In this case the drier airmass is on the northside of the line and the airmass with more moisture on the south. Dry lines are in this area of the United States are common and typically travel West to East.

Anyways back to the weather in our area. Throughout the day expect clouds to clear and temperatures to rise as barometric pressure rises as the high pressure system's center moves through. Let's bring the attention back to the surface now, directly to the west of the high pressure system in the midwest a low pressure system is trailing. This low pressure system will move in late tonight and hang around tomorrow. What we can expect from this low pressure system is dropping temperatures, dense sloud cover, and some snow (possibly rain/ice mix). Definitely some classic March 1st weather!