Snow talk, and spring deferred
Snow threat still in play for opening day.
Based on the latest computer-model runs, almost anything is in play for Friday other than a beautiful day for baseball.
It should be a pitcher's night for tonight's exhibition game, with a breeze blowing in from left center and hand-stinging temperatures tumbling into the 30s as March continues its remarkably chilling exit.
Wind chills this morning are in the 20s, and this is going to mark the first time since 2001 that the last week of March will have passed without a single reading in the 60s. In 2006, it hit 82.
The snow threat for tomorrow has been erased, but snow and-or cold rain remains possible Friday on into Saturday, even if the official forecast is calling for rain right now.
The models have been all over the place with the weekend threat on timing and intensity, and in all likelihood they won't be settling on any common meeting ground during the next few days.
The National Weather Service's morning discussion addresses the uncertainties.
Joe Bastardi, recently separated from Accu-Weather and now working for a company called WeatherBell, put a post this morning saying that a big coastal storm is possible and that it will be a close call along the I-95 corridor for significant snow accumulations.
In any event, if you're going to the game Friday, you may not need cross-country skis, but you will need a coat.