Good Tuesday all-
An extreme rarity has occurred- a Wind Chill Watch has been issued for the 4 northern counties for Wednesday night, and I suspect it'll be expanded to everyone else as well. To get through that, though, we're going to be dealing with a bit of some light snow today as a clipper along with an arctic front moves through. Some light accumulation on the order of a coating to 2 inches is possible, and whatever we get today is going to stick around. Tomorrow itself looks fine, but tomorrow night the temperature plummets down to near or just below 0 and the winds begin blowing 20 mph sustained with gusts as high as 40 out of the north. The end result? Wind Chill values on Thursday morning could be between -25 and -30. YIKES!!!! After that, some more light snow with another clipper is possible Friday, and then a lot of snow is possible Monday/Tuesday with a nor'easter, but that is way too far out to even discuss at this time.
Today in weather history- January 6, 1996- A massive blizzard strikes the northeast, dropping several feet of snow. The highest snowfall totals in our area was 33 inches in the Litchfield hills, but parts of West Virginia somehow managed to get 48 inches of snow, or 8 inches more than the hardest hit areas in 2013's Blizzard Charlotte. Yikes!! Hartford's official snowfall measurement from this one? A rather measly 18.2 inches, not even in the top 5 all time (Interestingly, it likely was until we got 3 of the top 5 snowstorms in the last decade- the Blizzard of '06 (#2), 2011's Winter Storm Benedict (#1), and 2013's Blizzard Charlotte (#3) ). Yes, Charlotte, despite being Connecticut's biggest snowstorm in over a century, somewhat missed Hartford, causing them to miss out on their record by several inches...unlucky for them
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