The
potential is there for a blockbuster storm for the Northeastern United States
early next week…
First
though, we will finally get a nice day tomorrow with highs in the upper 30’s to
low 40’s.
Then Friday
a storm system will approach from the west and it will stick around for a
while. Light rain or light snow will develop
in the afternoon and then change to light rain in the evening. The high will be in the upper 30’s.
We will have
rain on Saturday with highs in the low 40’s.
The storm
will then start to turn into a Nor’easter off the coast on Sunday. This could cause the rain to change to
freezing rain, sleet or snow as early as Sunday morning. It is also possible it will stay just warm enough
to be rain, so this will completely depend upon how the storm develops. The worst case scenario would be the
potential for severe icing with this storm.
Hopefully it will either be just warm enough for rain or just cold
enough for snow but icing is a serious potential with this storm on both Sunday
and Monday as the storm will continue to strengthen along the Middle Atlantic
Coast and will likely move very slowly. Highs
will be in the lower to middle 30’s both Sunday and Monday.
This storm
will likely move very slowly as it will be trapped underneath an unusually
strong and cold high pressure area over Canada at the same time that a strong
upper level low pressure area will be dropping down from Canada behind this
high pressure area. This strong upper
level low will pull the developing storm in off the ocean to a point probably
about 50-100 miles off the New Jersey Coast by Monday night or Tuesday
morning. Then there may be a second
storm developing and moving up the coast at that time with the first storm
moving away after ending as snow on Tuesday morning, or the storms might merge
into one larger storm that would continue the snow through the day on Tuesday
and into Wednesday afternoon. If there
are two separate storms there is a chance that the second one will miss us and
that would clear us out on Tuesday.
So, yeah
there is the POTENTIAL for bad weather, possibly even very bad weather Sunday
through Wednesday but please keep in mind there is certainly still a chance we
could luck out here in Northern New Jersey and this could be rain, although I
doubt that will happen for the entire storm.
It is still however a possibility.
On the other hand, we could end up with a severe and crippling ice storm
or a blockbuster snowstorm.
The way I
see it, I am sticking with what I started saying last night. There remains the POSSIBILITY of someone,
somewhere between the mountains of West Virginia and Virginia up through
Western Maryland, Central or Northeastern Pennsylvania, Northern New Jersey,
New York State, or anywhere in New England to see either a crippling ice storm
or 2-3 feet or more of snow. It is still
too early to say if or exactly where this will happen.
After this storm
or storms pass we will have some long deserved nice weather for next Thursday
through Sunday, followed by another storm most likely the following Tuesday and
Wednesday.
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