At 10 p.m. a heavy snow warning goes into effect for the Lakes Region and much of the rest of New Hampshire until noon on Tuesday. The National Weather Service in Gray Maine has upped the forecast totals a couple times today and is now predicting 6 to 10 inches, most of which will fall between midnight and 7 a.m.
At the moment it's a very calm night out there, and we're still awaiting first flakes from this storm. Radar shows it overhead so we're just waiting for it to saturate the air so it can start reaching the ground. With relative humidity at 80%, it shouldn't be too long.
The snowpack stands at 9 inches after a couple days above freezing, and this is the first time since the 15th that it's been below double-digits. There has been a snowpack since the 3rd.
This will be the last snowstorm of 2007, but only because the clock is running out on 2007. The year began very warm and snowless, a continuation of a December that produced severe thunderstorms in the area instead of snowstorms. Now it appears to be ending quite the opposite.
As always, more weather info, forecasts, etc. for the region and elsewhere is at
www.blackcatnh.com/weather.