A storm likened to a freight prepare — highly effective and quick — will deliver half a foot of snow to many elements of the East Coast and New England on Sunday, simply days after one other storm left two or extra ft of snow.
Among the coldest climate of the season — with temperatures within the single digits or under zero — will comply with arduous on the heels of the storm. And if that’s not sufficient of a reminder of winter, forecasters mentioned there may very well be extra unsettled stormy climate to come back this week.
Winter storm warnings for Sunday had been posted for elements of Connecticut, northeastern New Jersey, New York Metropolis and Lengthy Island, the Nationwide Climate Service said on Twitter. The storm is predicted to final from dawn to sundown and make for treacherous journey on Tremendous Bowl Sunday, forecasters mentioned.
“It may be fast paced, however don’t take it calmly,” warned Steven DiMartino, a meteorologist and proprietor of NY NJ PA Climate in Freehold, N.J. “I might not be on the highway tomorrow morning or early within the afternoon. Keep off the roads and let these guys do their jobs. Keep house and have a pleasant cup of espresso.”
The following wintry blast is diving throughout the Southern Plains on Saturday and can assist spin up low strain alongside the North Carolina coast, driving chilly air into the Deep South, mentioned Ben Gelber, a meteorologist with the Ohio tv station NBC4.
“This may deliver snow all the best way all the way down to the north Georgia mountains early Sunday, the place a winter storm warning is in impact for a number of inches of snow, and a wintry combine might attain Atlanta Sunday morning,” he mentioned.
The results of the storm will seem in western Virginia and the Washington metro space and make its method by Philadelphia, New York Metropolis, Connecticut, Boston and Cape Cod, Mass., earlier than transferring on to Nova Scotia, Mr. DiMartino mentioned.
“This one’s like a freight prepare,” he added. “It is available in and blasts us with snow earlier than it leaves.”
Whereas most areas can count on accumulations of 4 to eight inches, some remoted spots within the Philadelphia-New York-Boston hall might see as a lot as 10 inches, although Mr. DiMartino mentioned it was tough to say exactly the place.
The storm might produce intense precipitation — snowfall charges of a number of inches an hour, he mentioned.
The heaviest accumulations will almost certainly be alongside the Interstate 95 hall, from Washington and Baltimore to Philadelphia, New York Metropolis and Boston, Mr. Gelber mentioned.
By late afternoon or early night on Sunday, the snow ought to finish, mentioned Matthew Wunsch, a Nationwide Climate Service meteorologist primarily based in Upton, N.Y.
“So the complete occasion primarily takes place over the course of, like, 12 hours, whereas the system that we simply had sort of lingered across the space for a number of days,” he mentioned.
A storm this week slathered New York Metropolis in 17.2 inches of snow. It was the largest snowstorm since a record-setting blizzard of 2016, the Nationwide Climate Service mentioned. Different areas, together with elements of New Jersey, acquired 30 inches or extra of snow.
Mr. DiMartino mentioned clashing programs might imply an unsettled spell of climate. Snow might come once more on Tuesday and Thursday into Friday as an arctic air mass from the north pushes south and the influences of La Niña push north, he mentioned.
On the East Coast, temperatures will drop into the one digits after the storm, inflicting appreciable icing.
“It’s going to be a large number on Monday morning,” Mr. DiMartino mentioned.
Mr. Gelber mentioned the Northern Plains and Higher Midwest might see temperatures of 10 to twenty levels under zero from the Dakotas to Wisconsin and northern Iowa. “Subzero morning readings will probably be felt in Chicago by midweek,” he mentioned.
For followers of Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog that people ceremonially use as a prognosticator of what’s nonetheless to come back this season, all of this comes as no shock: On Tuesday, he predicted six extra weeks of winter.
Allyson Waller contributed reporting.