Winter storm alarms stretch from northern Georgia to Maine as the system moves through Sunday.
Although this system is not the record that has shed 18-36 inches across the regions over the past week, it will still be a pack beat for some places.
An interesting possibility to note is that Boston will eventually get more than three times what they picked up from the previous Norwegian harvest. From now on, the forecast on Sunday calls for 3-6 centimeters for the city, much more than the 1.2 centimeters the city received during the last storm.
How much snow is uncertain
Uncertainty still exists about exactly how much snow the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic will get with this system.
“The factors that can limit snowfall with this system are how fast the storm detects the coast, and also how close to the coast the storm tracks,” says CNN meteorologist Haley Brink.
“If the system follows further off the coast, the biggest precipitation will be over the Atlantic Ocean. If the storm envelops the coast, the heaviest snowstorms could directly affect several cities in the I-95 corridor.”
Speed is a major factor with this storm compared to the previous Monday.
“If this low coastline rises quickly along the coast, it will limit the amount of time snow accumulates,” Brink said.
In most of New Jersey, Connecticut and eastern New York, snow will begin Sunday at sunrise and end at sunset. It is predicted that the storm will drop 6-10 centimeters during that period, which is a few centimeters less than the previous storm.
For the Mid-Atlantic and southern Appalachian regions, this is the freezing point. In these regions, rain and snow will be combined, so even a slight variation in temperature will change how many avalanches are seen there from northern Georgia to Washington, DC.
Windy winds combined with the heavy snowfall will reduce visibility in many of these places.
Other consequences of this storm will include dangerous driving conditions as well as power outages.
The snow is here to stay
The coldest air of the season will move into many of the lower 48 states in the coming days.
It is predicted that more than 40 million people in the neighboring US will see temperatures below zero over the next seven days. The coldest temperatures will be in the central US, with the weather service predicting bitterly cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills in the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest this weekend.
From Sunday to Thursday, Cleveland, Indianapolis and Detroit will see high temperatures of 15 to 20 degrees below normal, keeping them below freezing for almost a full week.
A large part of the Great Lakes region and the interior of New England will also remain below freezing over the coming week. This means that snow on Sunday will probably stay there.
“Expect dangerous travel conditions on Sunday with snow and ice on untreated roads and surfaces Monday morning,” according to the Weather Prediction Center.