The NFL game between the Patriots and Cardinals in Foxboro, Massachusetts is awash in snow this afternoon. The Cardinals have not played in snow in 25 years, and they are getting whitewashed by the Patriots.
A powerful low pressure system is bombing out this afternoon as it heads toward New England. The system will lift across Cape Cod tonight. Along the coast, the snow will change to rain. Inland, there will be very heavy snow.
Blizzard warnings are in effect across eastern Maine, where up to 16-24 inches of snow is expected.
Boston is expecting 4-6 inches total, but also 50 mph wind gusts tonight as the low intensifies by 24 millibars in less than 24 hours.
Snow amounts inland will be in the 8-12 inch range around Andover, where Winter Storm Warnings are in effect.
Check out this forecast for the Caribou area…
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NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…PRESQUE ISLE…CARIBOU…VAN BUREN…
MARS HILL
415 AM EST SUN DEC 21 2008
…BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 PM EST
MONDAY…
.TODAY…SUNNY THIS MORNING…THEN INCREASING CLOUDS WITH SNOW
LIKELY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. SNOW ACCUMULATION UP TO 1 INCH. HIGHS
AROUND 11. EAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH. CHANCE
OF SNOW 70 PERCENT.
.TONIGHT…SNOW. BLOWING SNOW. SNOW MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES. SNOW
ACCUMULATION OF 12 TO 16 INCHES. WINDY. NEAR STEADY TEMPERATURE
AROUND 10 ABOVE. EAST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH…BECOMING NORTHEAST 25 TO
35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. CHANCE OF SNOW NEAR 100 PERCENT.
.MONDAY…CLOUDY…SNOW…MAINLY IN THE MORNING. BLOWING SNOW. TOTAL
SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 12 TO 18 INCHES. WINDY. NEAR STEADY TEMPERATURE
AROUND 12. NORTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH.
CHANCE OF SNOW 80 PERCENT.
.MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY IN THE EVENING…THEN BECOMING PARTLY
CLOUDY. BLOWING SNOW IN THE EVENING. LOWS AROUND 2 BELOW. WEST WINDS
15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 10 ABOVE. WEST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
To the west…
Incredible lake effect snows are pummeling the Buffalo, NY area. Too bad the Bills are on the road at Denver today. It is the perfect setup for the lake effect firehouse to bury the city: a long WSW fetch along much of the length of Lake Erie, extremely cold surface temperatures and a relatively warm lake.
Currently at BUF: 1/4 mile visibility in heavy snow and blowing snow; wind WSW at 29 mph gusting to 41 mph, temperature 22F. Two to three inches of snow is falling per hour in the heavier bands.
