First Snowfall Of The Season Could Hit Western Maryland Tuesday

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The archetypal snowfall of the play could deed Western Maryland connected Tuesday, the National Weather Service said.

Forecasts telephone for snowfall showers successful the Potomac Highlands and neighboring Garrett County, Maryland, starting astatine 3 a.m.

The archetypal upslope snowfall lawsuit of the play is expected overnight contiguous done precocious Tuesday morning. Snow showers volition beryllium confined to the Potomac Highlands, with insignificant accumulations of up to 2 inches imaginable connected grassy surfaces. pic.twitter.com/cB92CzcFN1

— NWS Baltimore-Washington (@NWS_BaltWash) November 1, 2021

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Chance of precipitation is 60%. Snow showers could proceed into Tuesday, and the occidental portion of the region could spot accumulations of up to 2 inches connected grassy surfaces, the National Weather Service said.

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This would people the archetypal “upslope snowfall event” of the season, according to the National Weather Service.

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As WJZ meteorologist Chelsea Ingram explained: “Simply put, erstwhile aerial travel encounters mountains, it cannot travel done the mountain, truthful the aerial is forced upward. The aerial cools arsenic it rises. Any moisture wrong the aerial file volition past condense into clouds and precipitation. This process is cognize arsenic upslope precipitation.”

CBS Baltimore Staff