Ghiorse: Monday AM Blizzard Juno Update

Ghiorse: Monday AM Blizzard Juno Update

Most everything continues to be on track this afternoon. The center of the storm has started to intensify along the Mid-Atlantic coast and light snow and flurries are breaking out across much of the area. The snow will intensify throughout the late afternoon and evening as the storm center grows stronger and moves slowly offshore. Blizzard conditions will develop later tonight into tomorrow with near zero visibility and winds gusting to 50mph or higher during the peak of the storm.

I continue to think that the slow movement of the storm center and a potential delayed looping of the center is a key to the forecast. If that happens, it will cause an extended period of whiteout conditions that will leave 2 feet or more of snow before it's all over sometime early Wednesday. If the storm center does not slow, snow amounts will be lower but still in the 1-2 foot range. No matter what, this continues to be a storm with the potential of epic proportions and all preparations for the storm should be completed immediately.