What snow?

Total storm snowfall
(Map courtesy of National Weather Service)

Well, that was a nothing storm. As noted previously, I didn't expect much...no more than an inch or two of snow by Tuesday morning. In fact we got less than that. In fact we got virtually nothing...no rain and no snow. The storm system had a sharp cutoff on the western edge as we expected. Some snow did fall in the Youngstown area, but even that didn't accumulate much. You can check out the map to the left to see where the snow actually did fall.
Conditions will gradually improve the rest of this week. Our normal daytime highs should by in the mid 60s.  We won't get there, but at least we will warm into the 50s.
Enjoy!

Ha Ha Ha! Snow!

Gads...you gotta love NE Ohio in the springtime and this year has been really bizzarre. Anyhow, it looks like another round of snow and wind is heading into the area overnight Monday into Tuesday morning.

Total snowfall expect through midday Tuesday.
(Map courtesty of AccuWeather)

The scenario is that a big storm system is heading up the east coast.  That LOW will cause lots of snow to fall in the mountains of Pennsylvania and extreme eastern Ohio. The drop-off in snowfall rates will be rapid (see the map) with the Youngstown area getting up to half a foot of snow by midday Tuesday.  Locally we are looking an inch or two in Portage County and around an inch in Summit County. That's not a lot of snow, but it will be of a heavy, wet variety and combined with strong winds could cause some problems for power lines and tree branches.

During the day Monday we will have occasional rain, then after dark the rain will change to snow.  The snow will continue into Tuesday morning before it changes back to rain. If you plan to head east into the Youngstown/Pittsburgh area Tuesday morning you can expect some nasty driving conditions.

Daytime highs will remain in the 50s the rest of the week.

One more cool-down

After a very pleasant Easter weekend, things will cool down considerably for a few days this coming week. Tuesday and Wednesday will likely be the coldest days with daytime highs only in the 40s. After that we will warm back into the 50s and 60s.
 
BTW, don't get all excited about snow. I think some of the TV weather people must be talking about that because I've had lots of people ask me about snow.  We could see a few overnight flurries or snow showers, but nothing that's going to hang around or cause problems.  Most of us in the Greater Akron area won't see anything since the snow activity will generally be limited to the mountains and hilly regions of the northeast and lower Great Lakes.

For the record, the general feeling is that this will likely be the coolest pool of air to drop in until next fall. In other words, live through this and things will be better.