3/3 Connecticut Weather Noon: Winter Weather Advisory

Good afternoon. Connecticut. I'm Aaron Jolly. Folks, step outside right now and it feels deceptive. Twenty nine degrees, partly cloudy, almost pleasant for early March. Don't trust it. A warm front is charging up from the Mid Atlantic. And it's dragging a messy cocktail of snow, ice. And rain right behind it. In the next 24 hours. Cold high pressure is sliding offshore. Moisture is streaming in from the southwest. When those two collide. Things get interesting fast. Snow arrives between 11 A.M. and noon statewide. That's your first act. Now the story splits depending on where you live. Down along the coast, that snow flips to rain by mid afternoon. High of 37 degrees. Honestly, you get off easy. Push inland to central Connecticut and the cold air digs in harder. Snow transitions to freezing rain by evening. High only 33 degrees. Up to a tenth of an inch of ice accretion. That's enough to glaze roads and coat power lines. The evening commute inland could be genuinely treacherous. Over in eastern Connecticut, you're caught in between. Rain snow mix all afternoon with a high near 38 degrees. A Winter Weather Advisory runs from noon through early Wednesday morning for northern and western areas. Tonight, rain lingers with lows hovering 30 to 33 degrees. Patchy fog rolls in as warm air rides over frozen ground. Wednesday is the reward. Morning fog burns off, sunshine takes over. And highs vault into the upper 40s to low 50s. That's a 30 degrees jump from today. The week ahead tells a good story. Thursday and Friday bring rain chances as another system passes through. But the weekend. Highs climb into the 50s. Monday could flirt with 60 degrees. The equinox is two weeks out. And you can feel it. In Sunrise was 6, 24 A.M. Sunset at 5:44 P.M. Full moon tonight, if the clouds let you see it. Drive carefully this evening. Ice doesn't announce itself. For the extended outlook, check the latest forecast as confidence improves. That's your forecast — we'll be back tomorrow.