Another Southern Snow!

Yet another southern snowstorm is moving through!  After anywhere from a half-inch to five inches of fresh snowfall in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, Winter Weather Advisories are still posted for areas from Huntsville to Birmingham, AL.  After flurries and sleet pellets early Monday morning, many neighborhoods in Southeastern Louisiana have seen their third bout of frozen precipitation this season; the most in recent memory!  Our El Nino winter that we’ve been experiencing hasn’t been helping, either.  With an abnormally active southerly storm track and more frequent intrusions of unseasonably cold arctic air into the Deep South, this makes for an atypically “whiter” situation in many places that don’t usually see many of the flakes.

Eastern Tennessee Snow Totals, Image: NOAA

As this storm finishes up with the South, it is headed up the East Coast.  Although not a blockbuster snowstorm, several inches of snow are expected over the next 24 hours in places like New York City and Hartford, CT.  Winter Storm Warnings are even posted for Columbus, OH and Johnstown, PA where just in excess of 6 inches of snow is possible.

Winter Weather Advisories, Image: NOAA