What a wake up call this morning...I stepped out the door into temperatures that were around 60°! Thanks to a warm front, the day started and has stayed incredibly warm. But what a big difference 30 or 40 miles makes? At 3 am this morning, Salisbury was 58° and Cambridge was 36°! The warm front didn't quite make it that far west and it doesn't look like it's going to before the cold front sweeps through tonight.
If the warm temperatures weren't a wake up call, what about the heavy rain?! From 11 am to noon, Salisbury picked up 0.56" of rain...that's pretty heavy rain (but you probably knew that if you were out driving in it like I was). As of 11 am, Melfa had picked up 1.87" of rain since yesterday afternoon. Semi good news for the drought, but unfortunately a lot of the real heavy rain just runs off before it has a chance to soak into the ground...but rain is rain and we'll take it!
From here the heavy rain looks to be over for now, but there will still be light scattered showers. After midnight tonight, it looks like we may even see some snow. There's still some uncertainty but as the upper trough moves through tonight, it may be strong enough to spark some showers and since our temperatures will be colder, those showers will be snow. As of now, it only looks like a light accumulation, about an 1" or less, but it is something that we definitely need to keep our eye on.
Much quieter weather will prevail for Valentine's Day. The morning will be cloudy and cold, but that will give way to sunny skies in the afternoon. We then turn our eyes to the next system, Sunday night into President's Day, but this one also looks like just a rain event (nothing like 5 years ago...) Stay tuned!
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