No Rest For The Winter Weary In New England

Boy, New England really drew the short straw this winter.

This was Burlington, Vermont a couple
winters ago, but scenes like this will remain
common in New England for the rest of the
month as the weather pattern will continue
 to bring cold and snow  

While a good chunk of the nation has had a fairly mild winter, New England keeps getting blasted.

And that's going to keep up, with a very cold, snowy weekend, which will continue on into next week. Much of the rest of the nation will stay mild. Near record high temperatures are expected again in places like Texas and Oklahoma, for example.

Another Arctic front was making its way through New England this morning, dropping another few inches of snow on the region.

In far eastern Maine, there's a winter storm warning today for 6 to 8 inches of snow. Wonderful news for towns like Eastport Maine, which got 76 inches of snow in nine days during late January and early Februrary.

The Arctic front is going to stall in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states through the weekend. South of that front, it will be nice and mild.

North of that front, it will be frigid. Plus little storms will be zipping west to east along that front, each dropping snow on New England. The strongest of the bunch will come through Monday.

None of these storms will drop huge amounts of snow on southern New England,  but it'll keep piling up. A couple inches here, a couple inches there, maybe even six inches on Monday and Tuesday. That's normally not TOO big a deal.

But with the three to five feet of snow that fell in late January and early February, that will really make people cry "uncle."

The way the front is set up, northern New England won't see as much snow out of this pattern over the next few days. It will snow, but accumulations don't like too impressive, at least as it stands now.

It'll just stay cold. That's the pattern we've been in. Northwestern New England gets snow, but nothing extreme like southern and eastern New England.

And guess what? We're stuck with this pattern, at least through most of the rest of the month. That means frequent outbreaks of cold weather, and frequent chances of snow. Though I caution I can't give you any idea how big any individual snowfalls will be beyond Monday or so, if they occur at all.

However, For New England, it's beginning to look like this will be among the coldest and snowiest Februaries on record.

Oh, joy. as I said, this weather pattern shows no sign of breaking anytime soon.