WPCNR WEATHER SCOOP. FROM NOAA. February 18, 2007: A WEAK CLIPPER SYSTEM...JUST EAST OF LONG ISLAND THIS MORNING...WILL RAPIDLY INTENSIFY AS IT TRACKS NORTHEAST OF CAPE COD THIS AFTERNOON...AND INTO THE CANADIAN MARITIMES TONIGHT. A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT BETWEEN THIS DEPARTING LOW AND HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN FROM THE OHIO VALLEY...WITH NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH AND GUSTS TO 40 MPH EXPECTED AFTER MIDNIGHT INTO MONDAY AFTERNOON.
MEANWHILE A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE REGION LATE THIS
AFTERNOON...USHERING AN ARCTIC AIRMASS INTO THE REGION FOR TONIGHT INTO MONDAY. TEMPERATURES IN THE WAKE OF THE COLD FRONT WILL DROP THROUGH THE 20S THIS EVENING AND INTO THE LOWER TO MID TEENS BY MONDAY MORNING.
THE BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES...ALONG WITH STRONG NORTHWEST
WINDS...WILL PRODUCE WIND CHILL VALUES FROM FIVE TO TEN DEGREES
BELOW ZERO LATE TONIGHT THROUGH THE MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE.
EXPOSURE TO COLD CAN CAUSE LIFE THREATENING HEALTH CONDITIONS.
AVOID SERIOUS CONDITIONS SUCH AS FROSTBITE AND HYPOTHERMIA BY
KEEPING WARM. IF YOU MUST GO OUTSIDE...WEAR LAYERED CLOTHING...
MITTENS OR GLOVES...AND A HAT. IF YOU OR A PERSON YOU SUSPECT IS SUFFERING FROM FROSTBITE OR HYPOTHERMIA...SEEK MEDICAL HELP
IMMEDIATELY OR CALL 911.
THIS WEATHER SYSTEM WILL ALSO PRODUCE SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS ACROSS THE AREA FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EARLY PART OF TONIGHT.
THE COMBINATION OF WINDS AND SNOWFALL MAY CREATE LOCALLY POOR
VISIBILITIES AND ICY ROAD CONDITIONS. THE SNOW SHOWERS WILL NOT OCCUR IN ALL AREAS SO PLEASE BE WARY FOR CHANGING TRAVEL CONDITIONS.
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