HYPE: Weekend Snow: TX, SE, Mid-Atlantic

Looking at the winter precipitation type forecasts from the models this morning is just really impressive for April. We're talking about Texas, the Deep South and the mid-Atlantic all having a chance at seeing frozen precipitation, and that's not even in the long-term, but all this weekend! Here's how it plays out:

A storm moves across Virginia, spreading snow into the mid-Atlantic this weekend. The NMM sees it being in a narrow band across VA & MD (shown below); the GFS thinks it could come as far south as Raleigh, North Carolina and the Outer Banks.

At the same time, a storm swings out of the Rockies down into Texas, bringing snow and possibly mixed precip to northern Texas this weekend, according to both the GFS and NMM models.

And as that storm moves out into the Gulf, the GFS (but not the NMM) thinks there will be enough cold air on the northern fringe of the storm to provide flurries or a glaze of ice in southern Mississippi and Alabama.

And of course, the GFS has one more winter storm for the interior Northeast this time next week: