1/13- Where's Winter?

Happy FRIDAY everyone!

Winter looks like it's going into about a two-week long hibernation as temperatures look to be significantly above average until around the 25th of the month(!!), thus greatly limiting any threats for snow...but rain is certainly possible, and potentially a good amount of it! The first of these threats lies around the middle of next week as Wednesday looks like pretty much a total washout, with more precipitation likely next weekend but otherwise...wow are we in good shape for most of the next seven days. With a bit of variation, temperatures should primarily average out to the lower 40s for high temperatures...and for January, that's not bad whatsoever!!! Enjoy these next two weeks though- because if you don't...you'll be waiting a while as the first couple weeks of February could be pretty interesting (and Feb is notoriously our snowiest month here in Connecticut, and it looks like this year could be no exception).

Today in weather history- January 12-13, 2011- Winter Storm Benedict drops a ridiculous amount of snow on Connecticut, and breaks the all-time snowstorm record for BDL by dropping 24". In Wallingford, I picked up 30", which was the first time I had ever seen that amount in one storm. Of course, this has become a bit of a forgotten system thanks to 2/8/13's Blizzard Charlotte...but in Hartford...this remains the snowstorm of record, as 2013 somehow only managed to give them about 18", where most of the surrounding areas approached or exceeded three feet. Strange indeed, but...let's give a shoutout to what for many of us is the second biggest snowstorm of our lifetimes.