Syracuse, N.Y. -- After a relatively dry and partly sunny week, Upstate New York could see another weekend snowstorm with wet, heavy snow and possibly rain.
A pair of low pressure systems are expected to move into the Northeast this weekend, one passing near New York City and the other near Cape Cod.
It looks like for the foreseeable future after today, nearly every day will be above freezing, with temperatures in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Not too bad for people who don’t like winter, and should do a job on the snow. It hasn’t been a real snowy winter, but we still have about three months when we could walloped with snow, so I don’t think we can declare winter over yet.
Looks like things will warm up for the second half of the month.
This autumn into winter has seen fewer record highs broken then in recent years. The last high record broke before we saw 67 degrees on both January 12 & 13, 2020 was a record high of 73 degrees on October 31, 2019.
This year Ground Hog Day is on a Sunday. I thought about going down to Punxsutawney but it’s a pretty early morning in the winter and the roads are bound to be icy. Camping areas are closed not there is a lot nearby because Punxsutawney is pretty remote farm and coal country. I do remember going down Pennsylvania 36 last autumn – a pretty remote road north of Punxsutawney but with many scars from a century and a half of mining coal. I am sure though it’s pretty wild country with great country folk, strong accents lots of hunting, trapping and farming going on.
I guess January is always a cold bleak month.
But for some reason, this month just seems colder and bleaker then usual.
I guess such weather is normal for winter, but after last year, it just seems a little strange.
Just a friendly reminder that it’s still winter and while the east coast might be warm today, there is no guarantees that the mild winter will last.