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Rain Moves toward the Northeast

Jan 26, 2012; 7:54 AM ET

Thursday 9 a.m.

A storm from the Gulf states will move to western New York tomorrow morning then race out past the Canadian Maritimes by Saturday morning. Since the air behind the storm originated over the central Plains, where it is rather mild, that's the kind of air mass we expect behind the storm.

The upper air flow should become northwesterly from western Canada to the Midwest Saturday, and so cold air will advance southeastward. We expect the leading edge of the new cold air mass to reach the I-95 corridor on Sunday, so the coldest air should be in place over the Northeast Sunday night through Monday. However, southwest wind will kick in Monday night or Tuesday.

Next week, it appears the series of low pressure areas will cross the Northern states. These storms may affect the upper Great Lakes and northern New England with repeated snowfalls while maintaining cold weather. However, south of the track of each low pressure area, mild air will advance, then be replaced by a temporary shot of cold air behind the cold fronts each storm will bring. This video has more.

Putting these ideas another way

George Green of Kalamazoo, Mich., patented the dental drill on this date in 1875. Of course, in the weather business we have to be fulfilling your need for accurate information. That's how we reach the crest of our profession. It's our aim. Every time something in the forecast goes wrong we realize it ment a dent in our fight against truth decay. The most incisive remark we make about our weather is how cold air is drilling into the Northeast today. However, for all the cold, we haven't been able to scrape together much snow. This drives snowlovers to extraction. What the halitosis is going on?

Now, even in a mild winter, we have a freeze thaw cycle that can put a lot of cavities in the roads. Cars and trucks continue the damage because each time the tires hit a cavity, there is more extraction of material. Some vehicles become disabled and have to be pulled out. Motorists have to more or less grit their teeth through this grind for a while each winter. Road crews rush to put in fillings and more appointments have been scheduled. Of course, when a motorist hits a pothole, it really hits a nerve. If they don't put filling in the potholes soon they seem like canals. You also need to watch out for bridge work. You may wonder how I am going to work gingivitis into this report. Well, I won't. Besides, who wants gingivitis? Next week, we will certainly be looking into the teeth of more cold air masses. Temperatures will go for a flooride. However, it remains to be seen if the Gulf of Atlantic will open wide and send in some snow.

Usually in winter we repeatedly see the northwest winds arm and hammer us with cold air. But, for the first several weeks of official winter began the same flow that irrigated the Pacific Northwest moved east to the mouth of the Ohio River then on east without pulling in the cold molar air. On the plus side, this put a real cavity in the heating bills. So, the question is whether any prolonged cold weather pattern will take over, and no prolonged warmth will be in sight. Will such a cold period by capped off with a mantle of white, or ...

Will this be the winter when we look back and say the snow nevacaine (I know, that's not how you spell novocaine, but that's how it came out when the hygienist was working on my teeth. Don't they always ask questions when you cannot really talk?).

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