A moisture-laden winter storm is on its way to the Northeast this weekend after pummeling the South with more than a foot of rain, and a map published on Friday shows which states are bracing for the worst of the weather.
Several storms have battered the southern states with extreme rainfall and subsequent flooding that killed at least two people this week. The severe weather followed an arctic blast that plunged most of the nation into subzero temperatures earlier this month. Now, the storm is on its way to the Northeast, where it will bring the possibility of snow and ice to several states.
AccuWeather shared a map with the path of the incoming storm on Friday morning. States bracing for a mix of snow, rain and ice are Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and parts of Michigan, Virginia, West Virginia, Massachusetts and New York, according to the map. Snow also is forecast for states further north, including New Hampshire, Vermont, northern New York and central Michigan.
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AccuWeather meteorologist Dean DeVore told Newsweek that rain will begin late Saturday night into Sunday morning for New York. As the system moves north, precipitation will transition to slush and snow.
“Akron and Cleveland, Ohio; Albany, Elmira and Binghamton, New York; and Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, are among the cities where a few inches of snow and slippery travel are possible to end the weekend,” the AccuWeather report said.
National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Prediction Center lead forecaster Bob Oravec told Newsweek that precipitation totals in the Northeast aren’t expected to be as severe as in the South, where one Texas city received nearly 12 inches of rain in only 72 hours.
Intense cold won’t follow the storm like the arctic blast earlier this month, but colder temperatures will return to the Northeastern region after the storm passes.
“It will feel more like January and early February,” DeVore said.
Several winter weather advisories were already in place for Northeastern states as of Friday morning. There were also flood warnings for 16 states on Friday morning as rain fell across the nation.
Northwestern states are bracing for adverse weather, as a separate winter storm brings rain and snow to the region. There are NWS winter weather advisories for Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
“A Pacific storm will bring warmer rain and some snow to the higher elevations of the east slopes of the Cascades,” the NWS office in Spokane, Washington, said in the advisory. “Heavier precipitation is expected late afternoon and evening. Near freezing surface temperatures will take some time to warm up as this storm passes, so some precipitation is expected to fall as light freezing rain.”
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