Around New York City, the most intense winds were expected to begin on Tuesday afternoon. Though the rain broke briefly, officials also warned that threats remained into the evening, when heavy winds could bring power outages. This winter 40.9 inches of snow was recorded at Sikorsky- 14.2 inches higher than the average 26.7 inches.The sprawling nor’easter was also expected to move up through eastern Massachusetts, including Boston and Cape Cod, bringing ferocious winds and drenching rains through the evening hours and overnight, dumping up to 4 inches in some areas. Snowfall: Average snowfall for March at Sikorsky Memorial Airport is 5.1 inches. The average temperature for March is 39.3 degrees this month the temperature averaged 37.3 inches. Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 36. Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Breezy, with a north wind 17 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. New precipitation amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible. Breezy, with an east wind 18 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. In fact, the rain could be heavy at times. Little or no sleet accumulation expected.įriday Night: Rain, rain and more rain. East wind 7 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. That’s welcome news for ski areas still open because the heavy, wet snow that will help extend the season.įriday: Rain and sleet, becoming all rain after 3 p.m. Northwest Connecticut and the Berkshires in Massachusetts could get up to 3 inches of snow/sleet accumulation.įarther north, northwestern New York, Vermont and New Hampshire are in line to get more than a foot of snow. “A strengthening low-level easterly flow and late March solar insolation should allow for enough boundary layer warming for precip in most areas to become mainly rain during the mid tolate afternoon.except elevations above 750-1,000 feet where boundary layer temps may be cold enough to support a mix throughthe day.” There is, however, a chance of some sleet and snow mixing in, the NWS says. Simply put, there’s not enough cold air in place for southern Connecticut to get much freezing precipitation. So far this year, 8.41 inches of rain has fallen - 1.1 inches below the average 9.94 inches.Īreas north of the Merritt Parkway could see less than an inch of snow/sleet accumulation on grassy surfaces, not on the roads in these parts. With temperatures around 35 degrees - and windchills between 25 and 30 degrees - it will feel cold and raw. It will be a soaking, windswept rain with wind speeds up to 20 mph. The heaviest rain is expected Friday night. Drought Monitor has downgraded drought conditions along the southwest Connecticut shoreline and most of Fairfield and New Haven counties.Ĭurrent estimates on how much rain we could get from this storm are 1.92 inches in Greenwich, Stamford and Norwalk 1.83 inches in the Danbury area 1.63 inches in Milford and up into the Naugatuck Valley. There’s some good news in the forecast: The 2 inches of rain that’s forecast is another big step in breaking the back of the drought we have been having for more than a year. Rain is expected to end by noon on Saturday. The NWS says there is a 100 percent chance of precipitation Friday and Friday night. Dry conditions will return for late Saturday and into the remainder of the weekend as low pressure departs and high pressure builds in from the west.” “Little in the way of snow and ice accumulations are expected outside of the highest elevations. periods of a wintry mix of even some wet snow are likely,” the NWS says. Across interior portions of the Tri-State region. As a result a soaking windswept rain is expected today through tonight before tapering off Saturday morning. “A low pressure system will develop along the Mid-Atlantic coast this afternoon and then track south of Long Island tonight into Saturday morning.
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