Cattaraugus County/Little Valley, NY: Valid Saturday, February
11, 2012 8:00 a.m.
Saturday 2.18
Scattered snow showers.
High: low 30s
Wednesday 2.22
Snow.
Low: upper 20s
High: upper 30s
Video forecast
Synopsis
A low pressure system currently hovering over the Great
Lakes will bring some light and scattered snow showers
over the region on Saturday. Accumulations will be
negligible.
Once that passes out of the area Saturday night, the
following Sunday and Monday will have sunny skies (with
some clouds lingering about on Sunday) and seasonable
temperatures; Tuesday's temperatures will spike to about
40 with continuing fair weather.
After that, however, I must be blunt: there's a pattern
change coming. The positioning of a broad, U-shaped trough
in the upper atmosphere will place the area into the line
of several rapid-fire low-pressure systems, which will
bring several snowstorms (at this juncture they appear to
be all snow, but surface temperatures would seem to
indicate at least some mixture with liquid rain is not out
of the question) in a row throughout the rest of the
forecast period.