Another winter storm is going to blow through the region today. The particular path of the "Low" will bring the potential of freezing rain and sleet to much of the area.
This is the projected path of a winter storm passing through the area between March 4th and 5th.
Warmer air to the south of this system will keep southern areas in a rainy situation, while the colder air to the north will provide for wet snow. We, however, are stuck in the middle, where anything goes when it comes to precipitation.
The warmer air from the southern portion of this storm may overrun the colder air at the surface, creating a temperature profile (warm air aloft with a shallow pool of air below freezing at the surface) that could set-up the freezing precipitation.
The National Weather Services has several weather alerts associated with this storm. You can find them at weather.wsee.tv.
These are weather alerts at the time of this blog entry, and may no longer be in effect. You can see that these alerts basically follow the "icy" portion of the storm's path.
Ray Petelin,
WSEE Storm Team Meteorologist