The ultimate in our collection of East Coast storms is headed our method this weekend. And it might be the one with the largest impression. We’re monitoring a mixture of snow, ice, and rain that’ll make for a wintry Saturday and sloppy Sunday.
If you should run any errands this weekend, get them finished early on Saturday. Saturday morning is the one time this weekend that shall be dry, with roads unencumbered by ice or slush.
Issues go downhill starting Saturday afternoon. Precipitation will begin to push into the area round lunch time. And it is going to be chilly sufficient on the onset to help snow area-wide. Temperatures will slowly rise via the day and into the night, and the snow will change over to a wintry combine and finally all rain.
South Jersey would be the first to transition to all rain, usually by early night. For the town, we’ll maintain onto the snow via dinner earlier than shortly altering over to rain late Saturday evening.
The Hudson Valley will get snow till round midnight. After that, the snow will transition to rain, but it surely’s largely going to be freezing rain. That is rain that falls as liquid, however instantly freezes on contact, turning surfaces to a sheet of ice. It’ll additionally type a tough, icy shell across the snow on the bottom; it isn’t going to be a enjoyable digging out when this occasion is over.
Typically, the short changeover to rain together with comparatively milder temperatures will make for extra diminutive snow totals down the Jersey Shore; count on lower than an inch. Throughout the remainder of the realm, a lot of the us can sit up for an extra 1 to three inches of snow. However within the larger elevations, particularly up into the Poconos and the Catskills, accumulations will pattern larger, extra on the order of three to five inches.
By way of the day on Sunday, most of us are coping with the persevering with rainfall. This may flip a lot of the day before today’s snow into slush, leaving sidewalks and roads slippery and sloppy. In case you plan on heading outdoors, the rain or snow boots are going to be important. By the night, showers lastly start to taper as our storm system strikes off shore.
Totaling all of it up, the rain, snow, and ice will account for about 1 to 2 inches of liquid equal precipitation, with about half an inch to an inch of that falling as rain.
