HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 519 AM EST SUN JAN 25 2009 ACCUMULATING SNOW IS POSSIBLE LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY NIGHT. DURING TUESDAY NIGHT...THE SNOW COULD CHANGE TO SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN IN WEST VIRGINIA...RESULTING IN SOME ICE ACCUMULATION AS WELL. FOR OHIO...THE PRECIPITATION IS LIKELY TO REMAIN ALL SNOW. THIS FEATURE COULD WARRANT WINTER STORM WATCHES/WARNINGS. ___________________________________ TABULAR FORECAST FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 430 AM EST SUN JAN 25 2009 ROWS INCLUDE... DAILY PREDOMINANT DAYTIME WEATHER 6AM-6PM FORECAST TEMPERATURES...EARLY MORNING LOW/DAYTIME HIGH PROBABILITY OF PRECIPITATION NIGHTTIME 6PM-6AM/DAYTIME 6AM-6PM FCST FCST FCST FCST FCST FCST FCST TODAY MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT JAN 25 JAN 26 JAN 27 JAN 28 JAN 29 JAN 30 JAN 31 ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== MOCLDY MOCLDY SNOW SNOW MOCLDY MOCLDY PTCLDY --/29 18/31 19/27 24/31 22/37 24/25 13/35 --/40 40/10 40/60 60/50 50/20 40/40 40/10 ...DISCUSSION... TODAY WILL START OUT SUNNY...BUT CLOUDS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES TOWARD THE REGION FROM THE MIDWEST. IT WILL BRING SOME LIGHT SNOW OR FLURRIES TO PORTIONS OF THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY SOUTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. THAT SYSTEM MOVES OUT MONDAY...LEAVING CHILLY WEATHER IN ITS WAKE WITH A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF CLOUDINESS HANGING AROUND. A MUCH MORE IMPORTANT LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL APPROACH MONDAY NIGHT AND MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. THIS SYSTEM IS LIKELY TO BRING SNOW TO EASTERN KENTUCKY AND THE SOUTHWEST PORTION WEST VIRGINIA...SAY UP THROUGH CHARLESTON...BY DAWN TUESDAY. SNOW WILL THEN OVERSPREAD MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST OHIO TUESDAY. HOWEVER...AS WARMER ARE MOVES UP FROM THE SOUTH DURING THE DAY...THE PRECIPITATION WILL MIX WITH AND THEN CHANGE TO SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN TUESDAY AFTERNOON...AND THEN PERHAPS JUST RAIN FOR A TIME TUESDAY NIGHT...FOR SOUTHERN AND EVEN CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. KEEP TUNED TO THE LATEST FORECASTS AS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERAL INCHES SNOW ACCUMULATION AND THEN SOME ICE ACCUMULATION WILL LIKELY WARRANT THE ISSUANCE OF WATCHES AND THEN WARNINGS AS THE EVENT DRAWS NEAR. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Winter Edition of NOAA's Popular 'Aware' Newsletter now available: http://www.weather.gov/os/Aware/pdfs/08winter-aware.pdf ===================================================================== The "StormFlood" Listserv is a regional preparedness and planning partnership made possible by funding from Ohio University Environmental Health and Safety. Affiliated web services: Athens Ohio Climatological Data Archive: http://climate.athens.oh.us/ Southeast Ohio Flood Potential Monitoring page: http://seorf.ohiou.edu/xx073/floodprep.html Subscribe/Un-subscribe this mailing list: http://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/stormflood =====================================================================
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