Don’t put your shovels away: there’s another nor’easter in the forecast

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Residents from West Virginia to Maine are still digging out a record-breaking nor’easter that struck just six days ago.

Winter storm warnings stretch from North Georgia to Maine as the system continues on Sunday.

While this system won’t be the record-breaking nor’easter that dumped 18-36 inches across the regions last week, it will still pack a punch in some locations.

An interesting possibility to note is that Boston ends up getting more than three times what they picked up from the previous nor’easter. As of now, the forecast calls for 3-6 inches for the city on Sunday, far more than the 1.2 inches the city received during the latest storm.

How much snow is uncertain

There is still some uncertainty about exactly how much snow the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Ocean will get with this system.

“The factors that could limit snowfall with this system are how fast the storm is moving along the coast, as well as how close the storm is to the coast,” said CNN meteorologist Haley Brink.

“If the system follows further offshore, the heaviest rainfall will be over the Atlantic Ocean. If the storm hugs the coast, the heaviest snow tires could directly impact several cities in the I-95 corridor.”

Speed ​​is an important factor in this storm compared to the previous one on Monday.

“If this low shoreline flows rapidly along the coast, it will limit the amount of time snow has to accumulate,” Brink said.

For most of New Jersey, Connecticut and eastern New York, the snow starts around dawn on Sunday and ends around dusk. The storm is expected to drop 6 to 10 inches over that period, which is several inches less than the previous storm.

“A mix of rain and snow is expected to travel north all day today, bringing a few inches of snow from Washington DC to New York City,” said the office of the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center. “Farther northeast, six to eight inches of snow could fall in far south New England, including Cape Cod.”

For the Mid-Atlantic region and the southern Appalachians, the freezing point is the main concern. These regions will experience mixed rain and snow, so even a slight change in temperature will change the amount of snowfall that accumulates from northern Georgia to Washington DC.

Light winds in combination with the heavy snow will reduce visibility in many of these locations.

Other effects of this storm include dangerous driving conditions and power outages.

The snow remains

The coldest air of the season will sweep through many of the 48 lower states in the coming days.

More than 40 million people in the contiguous US are expected to see sub-zero temperatures in the next seven days. The coldest temperatures will be in the central US, and the weather service is predicting bitterly cold temperatures and dangerous gusts of wind this weekend in the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest.

It will be so cold in the north of the US this weekend that you can get frostbite in less than 10 minutes
“The North Central US is expected to remain trapped under a dome of frigid temperatures spanning a wide area from Montana to the western Great Lakes. Daily minimums on both Sunday and Monday are likely to be -10 to -20 degrees,” says the Weather Prediction Center.

From Sunday through Thursday, Cleveland, Indianapolis and Detroit will see high temperatures of 15 to 20 degrees below normal, keeping them below freezing for nearly a full week.

Much of the Great Lakes region and inland New England will also remain below freezing for the next week. This means that any snow that falls on Sunday is likely to stay there.

“Expect dangerous travel conditions on Sunday with snow and ice again freezing on untreated roads and surfaces Monday morning,” said the Weather Prediction Center.

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