New England To Grab 15-28 Inches of April Snow

Models are trending slightly colder for New England for an approaching storm that will peak from late Wednesday night to later Thursday evening. Some snow is also possible into Friday with a slight warming trend.

The above map from the short term NAM-12 model depicts widespread snowfall in nearly every region of upstate New York, all of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. While there will be no losers on this storm we think that the 20 plus inch numbers are likely to land in the northern region of New York (Whiteface) and Vermont (Jay Peak) and the North Conway region of New Hampshire (Wildcat etc), extending into Newry Maine (Sunday River)

While snow totals won't be an issue, temperatures will be just below freezing at most ski areas and near freezing to just above along the coast. Snow density will be high and some sleet is likely to mix in with the snowfall with warm air aloft.

While this potent system hits New England through late Thursday night, a system is moving ashore on the Canada coast and will spread south over the PNW and Sierra by the weekend (Moderate snow).  This system has many model variances of which some depict very deep totals for Montana and healthy amounts possible further south into the Tetons or Wasatch.  We need to narrow in the models before setting the expectations yet. We are very confident in additional powder days in the west late this week/weekend.

We are less optimistic on cloud free viewing of the eclipse in Texas for next Monday, and might issue a forecast for those that are chasing it.

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