For Fairfield, New Haven, Middlesex, and New London counties the National Weather Service says a “major winter storm is possible Friday night into Sunday”, which could produce heavy snow and strong winds.
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It is still several days away, but all signs are pointing toward a significant storm hitting us Saturday.
However, with so many signs pointing towards a significant impact of some kind in New England it would be prudent to start thinking about “plan B” options for Saturday.
Heavy snowfall is expected to extend northward to Philadelphia, and to brush southern New England. It’s looking unlikely that a winter storm will fail to develop at all, but for many locations it’s far from certain what kind of impact this system will have.
The National Weather Service set a 60 percent chance of snow in its hazardous weather outlook for the area.
Boston has measured 4.4 inches of snow so far this season, which is more than 13.5 inches below average.
While hesitant to predict an amount this early, Heden said that a heavy snowfall of six inches or more was “definitely possible”. Snowfall amounts will depend highly on the track of the storm; a shift of even 50 miles would result in changes.
The images below are from one run of a particular model that we think gives a good overview of what we can expect late this week.
“There’s a lot of different moving pieces that are coming together, and everything has to hit perfectly for this storm to work out”. Combine those tides with large waves and strong winds kicked up by the storm, and coastal flooding is likely for east facing coastlines. North and east of I-64, especially through the higher elevations likely stay all snow (which will give them the highest snow totals with this storm). Once low pressure reaches the coast, it will strengthen-increasing winds across our area and pulling in colder air.
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“Colossal storm to unload a foot of snow from D.C.to Philadelphia, NYC”, AccuWeather.com declared. We will fine-tune our snow forecast as we get a better handle on where the rain/snow line will linger.
