The East Coast could be in for its first major winter storm of the season, with forecasters predicting a weekend of heavy snow, high winds and coastal flooding from Virginia to Maine. Snow is also likely to continue into Friday night, with a 60 percent chance of precipitation. “We’ve seen that in storms in the past”.
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King said the road department has stocked up on calcium and brine to treat roads, and crews will be on duty 24 hours a day starting Thursday night until the weather has cleared.
What regions of the East Coast will be impacted?
For the second time this week, the National Weather Service in Paducah has issued a Winter Storm Warning for all of western Kentucky, portions of southern IL, and all of northwest Tennessee.
After this system Sunday and most of next week looks dry before some uptick of storm potential to close the month with a more favorable position of the jet stream.
On Wednesday, the forecast for early Saturday called for temperatures above freezing. A winter storm wi…
New York City’s office of emergency management is making preparations, and Mayor de Blasio said they’re not taking the potential storm lightly.
Hoffman said it’s a safe bet to prepare for more than 6 inches of snow and to expect some heavy snow at times and some rain. Meteorologist Tom Hawley of the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine, says its path could shift but right now “all indications are that it will not amount to much” in the region. Those totals could be adjusted up or down depending on the exact track of the storm, which is targeting the mid-Atlantic region. “They hear the forecast, and they want to be prepared for it”. NY and southern New England may see snow but the amount could vary greatly, even over small distances. Thousands of abortion opponents gather to listen to speeches before marching to the Supreme Court.
“If it is still blizzard conditions, that’s not the optimal conditions”.
We will make it above freezing on Sunday and Monday.
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Last year, a massive snowstorm that had millions along the eastern seaboard hunkering down pummeled Boston with more than two feet of snow.
