Sorry kids, it just doesn't look like the Baltimore region is going to get any of this late-autumn snow that so many of our neighbors to the north are enjoying today.
While Buffalo and other communities in the lee of Lakes Erie and Ontario are digging out from big lake-effect snowfalls, we're looking at a weekend forecast that goes from just mostly cloudy to partly sunny to mostly sunny by Monday.
Snow lovers don't have to go terribly far for better news. The hardy Marylanders in our far-western counties are looking at a pretty much unbroken string of snowflake icons on their 7-day forecast. That goes for both Garrett and western Allegany counties.
And forecasters are watching a "clipper" system - a storm riding along the jet stream out of the northern Rockies - that's expected to cross the Great Plains and reach the Midwest by tonight. That storm is forecast to pass well to our south, across southwest Virginia late Saturday into Sunday. Forecasters say it will be cold enough for that to produce snow Saturday night across the southern Potomac Highlands and the central Shenandoah Valley.
But none of it will be heavy. These clipper systems just don't pack the moisture needed for that. We're likely to see more of these this winter than of the big coastal storms that buried us last winter, forecasters say. And then we're looking at mostly sunny skies well into next week.
This, or course, pretty much kills our chances of seeing snow on Dec. 5 this year. More on that later.
(AP PHOTO: David Duprey)