It's gonna get cold...just for a few days

A cold arctic blast is heading into the state later tonight. Looks like we will probably end up with 2-5 inches of snow on the ground by tomorrow night.  There's some snow out in front of the cold front and then it looks like a bit of lake effect will crank up behind it for tomorrow.  The winds are going to be more northerly than in the past and that could push the snow down below I-76. While temperatures will be below freezing for Saturday and Sunday, we will warm back into the mid 30s on Monday. I still don't see a prolonged period of arctic cold moving into the region during the next 10 days.

Storms coming?

Don't want to get too excited yet, but it's beginning to look like we could start to get some stormy winter weather around mid-month and continuing for a week or two...snow, rain, freezing rain, sleet. Woo hoo!  More later as we get closer and the systems get more defined. May not happen, but right now it's looking kinda positive.

This is NE Ohio, right?

January temperatures ended up 5.5 degrees ABOVE normal for the Greater Akron area. So, if you thought it was warmer than normal (and I think everybody did), you were right.

We had 14" of snow in January at the Akron/Canton Airport. That seems like a lot, but most of it fell between the 19th and 21st and the proceeded to melt within a few days...as did most of the other snow we had. So, it came and went so fast we hardly even noticed.

What about the future?  Looking ahead to the next 10 days I think temperatures will be a bit cooler than this past week, but will remain near or above normal. The normal daytime highs through the middle of the month should be 34 to 37 degrees. And, still...no big snowstorms.