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A mixed week with cautious to hazardous water conditions. The extreme cold will continue with maybe some 30’s this week for highs, but not too likely. Tuesday and Wednesday Day will be dry. Wednesday Night and Thursday Day will have chances of snow. The possibility of a strong Nor’Easter is possible with accumulating snow. Thursday Night and Friday will be mainly dry. The coldest air will come at the end of the week with highs only in the single digits and teens with lows in the negatives to single digits. The earlier part of the week will only see teens and 20’s, maybe a 30 somewhere with lows in the single digits to teens. This extreme cold may break for next week, if the long range is correct. Water conditions will be cautious to hazardous with winds to 30 knots and excess on Thursday and Friday with inshore seas to 10 feet and offshore to 20 feet. Freezing spray is likely all week. Water temperatures are in the 40’s with shallower bay and rivers in the 20’s and 30’’s with many areas frozen over.
Arctic high pressure centered over the lower Missouri River Valley this afternoon will build to the east. The high will continue to influence our region into Wednesday. Low pressure is then forecast to develop off the Southeast coast. The low is expected to intensify rapidly as it moves northward over the waters off the Middle Atlantic and New England coasts on Wednesday night and Thursday. Cold high pressure is anticipated
to build into our region from the west for Friday and the weekend. Low pressure is forecast to approach from the west early next week.
Happy 2018!! Have a great week and thanks for reading.
Tuesday Surface Analysis
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Wednesday Surface Analysis
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Thursday Surface Analysis
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Friday Surface
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Total Precipitation Monday - Saturday
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Sea Surface Temperatures
Surface
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20 Meters (≈65 feet)
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NWS OPC Sea Surface Temperature 3 Day Loop (http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/Loops/NCOM/sst/Ncom_sst_UseastNorth_03_Day_flash.shtml)
NWS OPC Gulf Stream Currents 3 Day Loop (http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/Loops/NCOM/currents/Ncom_Curr_UseastNorth_03_Day_flash.shtml)
Ocean Currents
Surface
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20 Meters (≈65 feet)
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