Light Snow for Mid-Atlantic - Deep South/Florida in DEEP FREEZE!

Light snow can be expected Thursday night and Friday across the Mid-Atlantic States including New York City as a weak low pressure system moves off the coast south of New York City. The big storm will be another cold blast behind this storm. Heavy snow will fall near the leeward sides of the Great Lakes with killing frosts and freezes across the Gulf Coast (522 thickness forecasted in 84 hours in New Orleans!) with temperatures in the teens and 20s for overnight lows as far south as central Florida - and there could be freezing temperatures even along the coast in the city of Miami! Recent statements on this cold outbreak from the Miami National Weather Service are below.

530 AM EST WED JAN 6 2010

...FREEZING TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE THIS WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...

TEMPERATURES WILL INCREASE INTO FRIDAY FROM THE CURRENTLY COLD TEMPERATURES,HOWEVER ANOTHER STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTH FLORIDA FRIDAY NIGHT WITH MORE FREEZING TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND MONDAY MORNINGS ACROSS INTERIOR LOCATIONS AND POSSIBLY INTO THE EAST COAST METROPOLITAN AREAS..

249 PM EST WED JAN 6 2010

...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 9 AM EST
THURSDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A FREEZE
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 9 AM EST
THURSDAY. THIS REPLACES THE FREEZE WATCH PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT.

TEMPERATURES TONIGHT WILL BE VERY SIMILAR TO LAST NIGHT.
OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL LIKELY DROP INTO THE UPPER 20S TO AROUND 30
ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE INTERIOR ESPECIALLY IN THE LAKE OKEECHOBEE
REGION AND NORTHERN INLAND COLLIER COUNTY. READINGS WILL DROP TO
AROUND OR JUST ABOVE FREEZING ACROSS THE METRO AREAS FROM PALM
BEACH THROUGH MIAMI-DADE COUNTIES. IN MIAMI- DADE AND BROWARD...
TEMPERATURES NEAR FREEZING ARE MOST LIKELY IN THE FAR WESTERN
SUBURBS...NEAR AND ALONG THE SAWGRASS EXPRESSWAY AND HIGHWAY 27 IN
BROWARD AND ALONG AND WEST OF THE FLORIDA TURNPIKE EXTENSION IN
MIAMI- DADE...INCLUDING THE REDLANDS. FROST IS ALSO POSSIBLE IN
SOME OF THESE AREAS.

George Wright is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist and President of Wright Weather Consulting, Inc. George is also a meteorologist with Cablevision News 12. Our website is WrightWeather.com.