05/29/2026
Get your booties a coats back out..
For us down here, hopefully, just cold rain with , maybe, a wintery mix. It starts tonight into tomorrow. I’m planning on being a BassPro all weekend. If the road are ice, which I doubt will happen, maybe I’ll stay home and think of a tropical beach on an island somewhere…
We are about to receive a very late season winter storm. Yes, I said winter storm. We can thank our friend the omega block for this.
Friday afternoon, a storm system will drop into the region out of Canada bringing its own cooler of arctic air with it. This will primarily be a cold rain event for the majority of the region, with the exception of the elevations above 1,500ft where we could see a wintry mix, and elevations above 3,000ft where we could see accumulating snow. No, we aren't talking maybe an inch or two. We are talking 8-12 inches possibly. This is very much a "you've got to be sh****ng me" event for the end of May, doorstep of June.
Late Friday night, the center of the low pressure system will relocate to a secondary low near the coast, transitioning this into a coastal storm. It is right about at this point into early Saturday morning that we will see fairly heavy precipitation rates. Where some areas are looking at measurable snowfall, others are looking at a potential 2-3 inches of rain.
High temps Saturday will have trouble getting out of the 50s, while the lows will be 30s up north and 40s to the south. The immediate coast will likely stay consistently in the 50s for the duration.
Wind? Yeah, don't worry, like any good coastal storm, this will stir up some wind. Honestly, it doesn't look terrible and looks like the strongest gusts will be concentrated to the coast where they are used to 60mph gusts already.
All should be wrapped up by 5pm Saturday.
This opens the door to a smaller disturbance of organized showers late morning Sunday into Monday morning, which transitions to steadier rain Monday and more organized showers into Tuesday.
Share it with your friends.
The big issue is with the hikers and campers. People are going to get caught off guard with winter conditions at those higher elevations. Other forecasters and I cannot stress this enough, be prepared for rapidly changing conditions. Don't become a statistic.
