Hopefully, if you were following the Long-Range Forecast for the past couple of weeks, this cold and active weather pattern did not come out of nowhere for you. It looks like it will be staying cold, and somewhat active, into mid-February.

There is the dynamic system on Friday that will likely blow up just a little too far east to spare Southern New England a mini-blizzard Friday night into Saturday. There could be some icy roads and the wind will be howling as the temperature plummets. After a very cold weekend, a southern streamer makes a run at us on Monday. Indications are it will come close enough for some snow, but it’s still unclear if it’s an inch or two, or 5-10″. If this storm travels far enough north, significant accumulating snow is likely. It’ll be a fast mover, but it will run into very cold air, and the snow would pile up. We’ll keep you posted in the next few days.

Further down the road, there could be another system late next workweek, and then again in the early to middle part of the following week. Between any storms, it will be plenty cold. The month of February is shaping up to be colder than normal, and after a very cold January, the winter as a whole may be below normal. Who’d thunk it after the very mild December. It’s also likely to feature above normal snow, something that did not look promising when looking at just the totals to date a couple of weeks ago.