2002-01-06: ALB upper air data from David J. Knight's server at SUNY Albany === Interpolations from ALB data - temps:deg. F, altitudes:feet MSL === MSL *TI* Wdir@kts trig VirT 2.1 degrees/division ("`": Dry Adiabatic) ----- ---- -------- ---- . ---- ----------------------------------------- 12000 22.5 250 49 77 | 15.5 ` : 11500 20.3 73 | 14.1 ` : 11000 18.9 245 42 71 | 14.3 ` : 10500 18.1 70 | 15.6 ` : 10000 17.4 68 | 17.0 ` : 9500 17.0 250 36 67 | 18.9 ` : 9000 16.5 250 35 67 | 20.7 ` : 8500 16.0 66 | 22.4 ` : 8000 15.0 250 35 64 | 23.3 ` : 7500 14.0 62 | 24.2 ` : 7000 12.9 245 34 60 | 24.8 ` : 6500 11.6 58 | 25.2 ` : 6000 10.5 250 30 56 | 26.0 ` : 5500 9.8 55 | 27.4 ` : 5000 9.1 255 31 53 | 28.8 ` : 4500 7.5 245 24 50 | 28.6 ` : 4000 5.0 235 19 46 | 26.8 (CB: 4300) ` : 3500 4.2 45 | 28.0 ` : 3000 3.5 225 10 43 | 29.3 ` : 2500 2.7 240 11 42 | 30.5 ` : 2000 1.9 245 11 40 | 31.8 ` : 1500 1.0 39 | 33.0 `: 1000 -0.8 195 10 37 | 32.4 (High: 37) :` 500 -2.5 185 7 33 | 31.8 : ` === NWS Regional Summary - 606 AM EST SUN JAN 6 2002 === Skies were partly to mostly cloudy across southern New England overnight with temporary clearing having arrived, just before dawn. Early morning lows were above normal, generally in the 20s to lower 30s except, mid 30s on a few exposed coastal locations. Any sunshine this morning will be short lived. Thickening high clouds this afternoon will herald the approach of rapidly intensifying and fast moving low pressure system. That low, in southern Alabama at 5 am, will move close to Nantucket between 1 and 5 am Monday and then rush off to Nova Scotia. It will cast a 6 hour shield of occasionally heavy precipitation into southern and central New England, the bulk of which will occur between 8 pm and 4 am. A watch has been issued for the possibility of 7 inches of snow in parts of interior southern New England tonight. Since the track of the storm and the amount of warming ahead of it are still uncertain, the watch includes the Boston area down into the northwest corner of Rhode Island. It is here where the precipitation may fall mostly as rain. While further inland, especially from northwest Connecticut across western Massachusetts into the Monadnocks, the precipitation should be mostly, if not all, snow. Down on Cape Cod tonight, its rain with gusty winds. General water equivalent amounts should range between one half and one inch across southern New England. The rush hour tomorrow should be okay except where snow has yet to be cleaned from untreated surfaces. A bit of snow may still be falling late Monday as another but weaker area of low pressure forms well southeast of Nantucket. Clearing will occur Tuesday and then a pair of weather makers should bring some sort of precipitation to our area late Wednesday and then again sometime this coming weekend. === The weather observed at WORCESTER at 06:54 AM EST was: === The skies were cloudy. The prevailing visibility was 10 miles. Temperature: 28F ( -2C) Dewpoint: 18F ( -8C) Relative Humidity: 65% Winds from the SW (240 degs) at 8 mph. Pressure: 1014.8 millibars. Altimeter:29.93 inches of mercury. === ORH Terminal Aerodrome Forecast issued 6-Jan-2002 06:40 EST === 7am: 24007kt P6sm Sct060 Bkn250; Tempo 8-12pm: Bkn060 12pm: 22008kt P6sm Bkn080 Ovc200 4pm: 16005kt P6sm Ovc045; Tempo 6-7pm: 5sm -rasn Br Ovc015 9pm: 03015g24kt 1sm -rasn Ovc004; Tempo 10-2am: 1/4sm +sn Fg Vv001 2am: 35013g20kt 1sm -sn Dz Br Ovc003