Monday Weather Update: Cold Air Arrives Early, Storm Chance This Weekend

Good morning. It feels more like November rather than October this morning with temperatures in the low 30's across the region. 

The culprit for this is fresh Arctic air that sits over the area...

You can see how its funneled right down from the far north. As the week progresses things will stay on the colder side as another cold intrusion enters region...

You can see how the air is directly funneling from northern Canada into our area.

The reason for this is blocking high pressure over western Canada as seen by the red color..

This blocks off the more mild Pacific air and allows that direct discharge from the north.

As we enter the weekend things get very interesting as there is a strong signal for a storm to develop along the eastern seaboard...

The pattern ahead of this potential storm is impressive with blocking high pressure over Greenland, a ridge out west and a low pressure center near 50/50. All key precursors to storm development as they allow energy to consolidate and lock in cold air...

Now its too early for any type of frozen precip along the I-95 and in fact, you do not want snow this early. The last time is snowed this early was 2011 and 2012 was one of warmest snowless winters of all time.

For the interior mountains of New England however, I would give this a good shot at producing some snow later this weekend...

I will be watching this closely and be posting updates.