ZIPPY ZONAL PATTERN BRINGS MILDER TEMPS AND MULTIPLE WEAK WINTRY MIX WAVES THROUGH THE NEW YEAR… 8:25am Sunday… Good morning everybody, our storm system has cleared the region and while we’re still mostly cloudy, skies are beginning to break up in spots with some blue sky patches showing through the cloud deck.

This will continue with time, and we’ll end up with a partly sunny day with highs in the 35-40º range, with cold lows in the upper teens to low 20s under mostly clear skies.

Also remember that we have a bit of a pressure gradient overhead today, which will cause northwest winds to gust 20-25mph at times, with slackening wind tonight.

For Monday, we’ll enjoy a seasonably cold partly to mostly sunny day with highs in the low to mid 30s before yet another warm front approaches the region.

This is what a zonal pattern looks like – the sequence is fair weather, warm front, light mixed precip event, milder air for a day (maybe two), cold front, cooler, rinse and repeat.

And it is this pattern that we will endure through the next week.

So, by Monday night, we expect a period of scattered mixed precip, mostly freezing rain/drizzle, or some snow mixed in early. Lows will be in the 20s.

For Tuesday, that system is gone but we’re milder behind the front, with highs in the low to mid 40s. More snow and rain is possible Tuesday night into Wednesday, with highs then in the mid to upper 30s.

It goes on and on for Thursday into the New Year, so as we get closer I will refine things for you as they come into clearer view, though overall high temps are in the 20s to near 40, and lows in the 20s to near 30.

Have a great day!