Surface temperatures range from 28 to 32 across Cheshire County currently, with precipitation types generally freezing rain or freezing rain and sleet. Precipitation will increase in intensity through midnight as the warm front pushes north and west across SE MA. Surface temperatures will remain steady, possibly falling a degree through midnight. Precipitation type could trend more toward sleet by midnight. By 3am, warm air advection will begin affecting the surface, pushing temperatures back up a degree or two. This may change precipitation to plain rain in lower elevations while higher elevations maintain sleet through the morning.
636 PM EST THU DEC 11 2008
...ICE STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST FRIDAY...
AN ICE STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST FRIDAY.
THE WARNING COVERS ALL OF CHESHIRE AND HILLSBOROUGH COUNTIES WITH
MAJOR IMPACT LIKELY IN THE MONADNOCKS.
FREEZING RAIN WILL FALL HEAVILY AT TIMES WITH GLAZING EASING AT
DAWN AS TEMPERATURES RISE TO AROUND FREEZING.
HEAVY ACCUMULATIONS OF GLAZE WILL PROBABLY CAUSE POWER OUTAGES BY
MIDNIGHT TONIGHT WITH AREAS OF 1 INCH THICK ICE ON TREES AND
WIRES...ESPECIALLY THE EAST FACING SLOPES OF THE BERKSHIRES.
SLEET MAY BRIEFLY BE MIXED WITH THE FREEZING RAIN THIS EVENING.
UNTREATED ROADS AND WALKWAYS ARE ALREADY BECOMING ICY. IF
TRAVELING YOU SHOULD ALLOW PLENTY OF EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR
DESTINATION.
THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION WITH LONG DURATION
POWER OUTAGES POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY THE MONADNOCK REGION.
|posted by Sam Lillo @ 12/11/2008 06:06:00 PM
