3/11- Rainy this morning, nice weekend

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE!- WE MADE IT AGAIN

Today is going to be rather moist, especially in the morning hours as a cold front has stalled essentially right over Connecticut but it isn't really going to do all that much to the temps. Will today be cooler than the last few days? Absolutely. Will we be stuck in the 50s? Yeah, but...we should be in the 40s, so there won't be many complaints I don't imagine. The weekend looks fabulous, with highs in the 50s again with sunshine tomorrow and increasing clouds Sunday. Rain should break out Sunday night, and much of Monday looks rather wet, before we have a brief warmup.

Beyond that however...winter has one more gasp after all. A strong cold front will move through around Friday of next week, which will introduce frigid temperatures and potentially snowy weather again for the week leading up to Easter. I am confident however, that storms that lie in that week two weeks from now will be the last snow chances of the 2015-16 winter.

Thoughts and prayers go out to those effected by the terrible flooding in Louisiana.

Today in weather history-

March 11, 1888- Heavy rain is reported in Central Park, and throughout New England as a storm begins crawling up the east coast. It seems harmless, but this rain, coupled with dropping temperatures, is about to become a storm for the ages.

March 12, 1888-March 14, 1888- The rain changes to snow...and heavy snow. During the peak of the storm, snow falls at several inches per hour and winds gust to hurricane force. The storm stalls out and spins right over the benchmark before finally moving away. It is, in essence, the perfect snowstorm for Connecticut. When all is said and done...fifty inches of now have fallen on Middletown, the largest individual snowfall ever recorded in Connecticut, and almost everyone, including NYC, picks up three feet- with drifts as high as 40 feet, which totally buried three story houses in the region. By all means, this is the benchmark snowstorm for New England, the one we will always compare our blizzards to, and the storm to end all storms. Storms like this probably happen once every 150 years or so, as we can look back and see that only two storms even somewhat compare to this- 1717 (171 years prior) and 2013 (125 years later)