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Jim Barach's Outlook
from the Storm Team Weather Center

Snow Showers Tapering Off...Sun Returns Thursday...

A storm system moving through the region brought rain and snow showers with some accumulation over the mountains and in the Tri-State area. The system will move off to the east tonight and skies will start to gradually clear. Thursday will be partly cloudy as a little moisture will linger behind the storm. The high temperature will rise a bit to 42 degrees. Friday will see increasing clouds ahead of the next approaching storm system. It will stay dry during the day with the high temperature warming to 49 degrees ahead of the front. Snow showers will start at night and continue through Saturday morning.
The weekend will start with the Saturday snow showers that could bring one to two inches of snow to the lowlands and up to four inches in the mountains. The high temperature will fall to a chilly 30 degrees as cold air moves in behind the front. Sunday will be mostly sunny as high pressure moves in quickly behind the departing cold front. However, the cold air mass will keep the high temperature down to a still chilly 33 degrees despite the abundant sunshine.
Monday will be partly cloudy ahead of another approaching storm system. The warmer air ahead of the front will push the mercury up to 44 degrees. Tuesday will see the front move in but it doesn't look like it will pack much of a punch. Skies will be mostly cloudy with some scattered rain showers and a high temperature of 47 degrees. Wednesday will also be mostly cloudy with scattered showers ahead of the next storm system. The mercury will warm again just a bit to 50 degrees.
A stronger cold front will move in on Thursday which will make for cloudy skies and rain showers that could be heavy at times. The high temperature will warm to 53 degrees ahead of the front before the rain starts to fall. Friday will be cloudy with rain showers that will change over to snowflakes as cold air starts to move in behind the departing cold front. The high temperature will drop to 41 degrees. Saturday will be cold with upslope winds making for cloudy skies and some snow showers. The high temperature will cool again to 36 degrees.

A quick look back at yesterday's forecast shows that skies were cloudy overnight as expected with rain and snow showers moving in during the morning hours. The overnight low temperature was 32 degrees which came in a degree warmer than the forecast low temperature of 31 degrees. Skies were cloudy all day as forecast along with rain and snow showers as expected with the high temperature in Charleston making it to 35 degrees, one degree cooler than the forecast high temperature of 36 degrees. Huntington's high temperature was 36 degrees. Charleston picked up .04" precipitation with Huntington reporting .07" precipitation. Snowfall totals were not available at this writing.

Tonight: Skies will be cloudy with a few lingering snow showers possible. The overnight low temperature will drop to 25 degrees.

Thursday: Skies will start out with some clouds but the sun will be out by the afternoon. The high temperature will warm to 42 degrees.

Friday: Skies will be partly cloudy ahead of another approaching storm system. It will stay dry until snow showers arrive at night with the high temperature making it up to 49 degrees.

Saturday: Cold air behind the front will make for cloudy skies and snow showers that could bring one to two inches of snow to the region. The high temperature will drop to a chilly 30 degrees.

Sunday: Skies will be mostly sunny as high pressure moves in across the region. Despite the sunshine, the cold air mass will keep the high temperature at a frigid 33 degrees.

Monday: Skies will be partly cloudy and dry ahead of the next approaching cold front. The warmer air ahead of the system will push the mercury up to 44 degrees.

Tuesday: The cold front will move in which will make for mostly cloudy skies and rain showers. The front will be weak so rain showers will be scattered and the high temperature will still warm to 47 degrees.

Wednesday: Skies will again be mostly cloudy with a chance of scattered rain showers. The high temperature will warm to 50 degrees.

Thursday: A stronger cold front will move in which will make for cloudy skies and rain showers that could be heavy at times. The high temperature will still be able to warm to 53 degrees as the air mass will still be very warm ahead of the front.

Friday: The cold air behind the front will make for cloudy skies and will change the rain showers over to snowflakes. The high temperature will drop to 41 degrees.

Saturday: The next weekend will start out with cloudy skies and snow showers as cold air lingers across the region. Upslope winds will make for snow showers and a cooler high temperature of 36 degrees.

One Final Note: Even though snow was falling across the region on Wednesday, it will only cool the monthly average temperature slightly. Up to this point, the average monthly temperature is already 5.3 degrees above normal!

--Jim Barach
Storm Team Meteorologist
Updated: Feb. 8, 2012 7:41 PM EST

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