We’re dealing right now with a very quiet, dull weather pattern over the Great Lakes/North Appalachia region right now, with cloudy skies and not much activity as far as synoptic-scale features go. That’s the way it’s likely to stay, at least for today. Cloud cover will effectively keep our low temperatures from dropping as low as they have been a few nights this week.

Saturday: Cloudy skies. Afternoon highs in the mid-20s. Clouds continue into Saturday night.

On Sunday, NWS guidance is trying to paint in some weak snow showers over the windward side of the Appalachians. This won’t be all that impressive, resulting in a few flakes if anything, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we see nothing at all. With Lake Erie now nearly frozen over, the lake effect machine will be effectively cut off in our area.

Sunday: Mostly cloudy, with a few very scattered and light snow flurries. Early morning lows in the mid-teens. Highs in the mid-20s.

Some ridging begins to build in for Monday, clearing out whatever snow showers there are in the area. However, it will not clear out the clouds.

Monday (Presidents’ Day): Cloudy skies. Lows in the mid-teens. Highs in the mid-20s.

All in all, a very boring forecast.

Below is a new feature to the Weather Blog, but in return a longstanding part of my other site: a ski report for the Twin Tiers.

WESTERN NEW YORK SKI REPORT: FEBRUARY 13-14, 2010
Resort Place Lifts Trails Base Depth Conditions Notes
Holiday Valley
 Great Valley ALL ALL 25-56″ MG,PP
HV Tubing Franklinville 2 10
Holimont
 Ellicottville 8 49 23-52″ MG,PP
Cockaigne
 Cherry Creek 2 10 6-37″ MG,PP
Peek’n Peak
 Clymer ALL ALL 24-48″ MG,PP
Kissing Bridge
 Colden 8 ALL 22-50″ MG,PP
Swain
 Grove 4 22 8-30″ MG,PP
Ski Denton
 Coudersport 4 18 N/G MG,PP
Mt. Pleasant
 Edinboro ALL ALL 12-24″ MG,PP
Snowmobiles
 Cattaraugus Co. Fair
Skating rink Little Valley Open, report pending