Accuweather reports that “the heavy snow with the storm is likely to have a fairly sharp northern edge”, meaning that “a distance of less than 50 miles could bring snowfall ranging from an inch or less to more than a foot”. The second storm is expected to be a major winter system, bringing strong winds and heavy snowfall to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, as well as a potentially damaging storm surge.
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Areas to our south could see up to two feet of snow from this storm.
Gaines would not yet predict the storm in inches, saying any adjustment in the track of the storm could increase or decrease the amount. These type of systems rarely produce much snow east of the mountains. If that’s somewhere between Eureka, California and Eugene, Oregon, then it could easily reach the latitude of NY, perhaps even Boston. And if those winds arrive at high tide (on a full moon no less), that could drive heavy surf and storm surge ashore, causing erosion and flooding from the Mid-Atlantic to southern New England. The storm will spread snow into the area early Friday morning, with several inches of snow possible by early afternoon.
If you’ve watched the news or been on the Internet at any point in the last few days, you probably already know that a major snow storm is headed for the northeast. Central Park, in New York City, also saw their first measurable snowfall on Sunday, which is the sixth latest first measurable snow on record there.
Speaking of which, we can not yet rule out a direct hit here in southern New England.
The map below is valid for midday Friday and shows snow spreading into Washington D.C. and Baltimore and the potential for rain to end as wet snow as far south as western Tennessee.
More information can be gathered on the storm as it moves east, which will improve forecasts, he said.
“There’s potential the storm goes a little further west and we get more snow than that and stronger winds”, Strait said.
All those things aside, this is looking very much like a classic nor’easter, one that may paralyze parts of the mid-Atlantic for a time later Friday into the weekend.
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That’s the latest European Model and it most certainly has a major “wow” factor to it. Taken at pure face value… the European Model has a blizzard from the Ohio Valley into the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern states.
