Northeast Storm: Rain for Most, Snow North
The storm coming late Thursday into Friday will bring rain for most, snow to northern areas and a little mix in between. (Photo by Gene Krebs / Photos.com)
The same storm set to bring a new round of severe weather to parts of the South this week will bring mostly rain to the mid-Atlantic, but some snow to northern New England and neighboring Canada late this week.
Cold air will offer little resistance as the next storm comes calling later Thursday into Friday.
The storm will bring rain to the I-95 cities from Richmond, Va., to Boston, Mass.
A few flakes of snow and a dash of sleet will fall on portions of Ohio and Indiana today. Temperatures will hover within a few degrees of freezing in this area tonight with mainly light rain. As a result motorists and pedestrians should be mindful of patches of ice.
This same ripple can bring a spotty, light wintry mix over portions of northern Pennsylvania and upstate New York tonight.
The main storm will swing northeastward Thursday night and Friday.
A mix of wet snow, ice and rain is possible from along the southern tier of New York and the northern tier of Pennsylvania through central Massachusetts to coastal Maine Thursday night. There could be enough to produce slippery travel.
From northeastern upstate New York to northern Maine and interior New Brunswick, there can be a few inches (up to 15 cm) of snow. Snowfall will tend to taper off moving northward over southern Quebec away from the bulk of the storm's moisture.
Not enough moisture is expected to be around to bring any substantial precipitation over the northern Ohio Valley states to southwestern Ontario.
A second storm that forms along the initial storm's cold front is likely to pass too far south and east to fling moisture into fresh cold air arriving on the scene Friday night/Saturday in the mid-Atlantic. There is a chance it brushes southeastern Massachusetts with a a period of snow during Sunday.
Instead, another lake-effect snow event will commence from west to east late in the week into the weekend from the Upper Midwest to the central Appalachians.
It is possible a disturbance rotating around in the push of arctic air over the weekend could produce patchy light snow well away from the Great Lakes in the Midwest and Northeast.
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