Snow Squalls May Impact New Year's Eve Travel from the Great Lakes to the Northeast; Heavy Rain Returns to California

An Alberta clipper will bring lake effect snow downwind of the Great Lakes, with the highest snow totals downwind of Lakes Erie and Ontario. Snow squalls may impact New Year's Eve travel during the evening and overnight hours across parts of the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, and Northeast. Heavy rain will bring a flash flooding threat for southern California on New Year's Eve into New Year's Day. Read More >

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Note the eliptical shaped fine line extending in an north-south arc along the western flank of the developing convection. This outflow boundary orginated from a strong storm that developed earlier in the afternoon over Paulding county Ohio. In addition...at the beginning of the loop...an even older left over storm scale outflow boundary had stalled out along a Goshen to Fort Wayne line. As the Ohio outflow pushed westward and collided with the stalled out outflow...low level convergence was maximized which led to rapid convective initiation of new storms along the western flank of the Ohio outflow.

The developing multicell cluster in Allen county rapidly became severe with numerous reports of nickel to quarter size hail and torrential rain. The eastern portion of this line represents the mature (severe) stage of this multicell cluster over the city of Fort Wayne while the new embryonic thunderstorm development over northeast Whitley county later becomes the next mature (severe) storm.

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Snow Squalls May Impact New Year's Eve Travel from the Great Lakes to the Northeast; Heavy Rain Returns to California

Radar animation for August 8, 2005

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