If you live in the Northeast, you might not be able to enjoy your long weekend. The region is set to experience some of the coldest weather in years on Friday night, only to be followed by a storm.
The weather will be very rude and could be life threatening. I have a chill just staring out my window at the bare branches quaking in the wind that is already whipping through New York and looking at the photos coming out of the Midwest, where the storm system that will blast the East Coast is currently churned.
Depending on where you live, you could see bone-chilling cold, heavy snow, ice, rain, or a combination of some or all of these dangers. It is a great weekend to watch football. We will take a tour of what is in store for the next few days so that you can plan your grocery store trips accordingly.
It is going to be cold in the Northeast.
According to the National Weather Service, wind chills will be very cold across the Northeast on Friday night. Wind chill values can be as low as minus-45 degrees Fahrenheit in the mountains of Maine and New York. Boston will get as low as minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit ( minus 29 degrees Celsius) in the wind chill. The NWS notes that the level of cold could cause the skin to become cold in 30 minutes.
The source of the cold is the front that will come from the northwest. It will cause temperatures to plummet at the same time. The temperature in Boston is expected to plunge from Friday afternoon into Saturday morning. Even as they rebound over Saturday, the winds will still keep things feeling like it's single-digit outside.
The snow is hitting the Midwest.
The storm headed for the East Coast is doing a number on the Midwest. In North Dakota, as much as a foot (30 centimeters) of snow has fallen.
A large area as far south as Missouri is looking at heavy snow and winds that can cause visibility to degrade into Saturday afternoon. As the storm moves into the Southeast on Saturday, it is possible that the leaves will fall as far south as Alabama.
Most of Tennessee will see moderate or major winter storm impacts that could threaten life and property, while Memphis and Nashville will see measurable snow. Atlanta is more likely to see a miserable, cold rainy Saturday as it will sit on the warm side of the storm. It is likely that parts of northern Georgia will experience freezing rain and sleet in between.
There will be a sloppy mess on the East Coast.
The storm will turn northward on Saturday night into Sunday, making life messy for the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. The cold air at the storm's core means large portions of the Appalachians from the Carolinas to Pennsylvania could see a foot or more of snow. That will make driving very dangerous.
The locations to the east of the core are more likely to see rain. The Capital Weather Gang is calling the snow in Washington, DC, a "shylus 1 to 3 inches" of snow, which sounds like trash. It will be mostly cold rain in New York on Monday. This is also trash. It makes even the most hardened New Yorker jealous of the Los Angeles forecast for the long weekend.
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