The JennCast forecast range is from Thursday (12:01 AM) until Sunday (12:00 PM.) A complex Noreaster, moving back from NY into Northeast PA will bring snow and strong winds into Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia Thursday throughout the entire weekend. The storm will reach its chief intensity during the day on Friday when sustained winds will approach blizzard warning criteria levels. Sustained winds will range between 25-30mph with gusts likely to exceed 50mph. Models have shown a fair amount of discrepancies between each run over the last two days therefore there is not a high degree of certainty in terms of snow accumulation, particularly in the Pittsburgh metro area. Current thinking is as follows:

• Pittsburgh Metro – 6-12”
• Morgantown, Southwest PA, and Westmoreland County:  8-16”
• Higher elevations in the Laurel Highlands and West Virginia: 1-3’

The caveat I will add is that there is the potential for both Pittsburgh and Morgantown to receive significantly more than is currently forecasted.

Icicles form on my neighbors' house.

We have had snow everyday since Dec. 27 – AWESOME!!! I picked that little piece of info up from the Nightline piece tonight where they featured Accuweather.

Looks like Sunday may be the break in the action for snow, but I’d love to see some stray lake effect snow to keep our run going.

Next week we may/may not have a warm up at the end of the week before the potential big storm. It seemed tonight like Joe Bastardi was backing away from a warm-up, but the way he writes is hard to follow sometimes. That’s not a slam…I am a big fan.

The storm next week is crazytown!!!! Double barreled-low heading North juiced up from the Gulf of Mexico. I can’t help but wonder where those 2 lows will meld into one magnificent low, the likes of which we haven’t seen since….well, you know when.

But that storm isn’t it. Remember how ealrier I said January is one parade of storms,? January seems to stay cold with one storm beating on the door while the previous one makes its exit -unbelievable…I might get a nice storm on or around my birthday for a change. Something I haven’t seen since my 15th birthday!!! We got sent home early from school-who forgets that??