More Northeast Snow Just in Time for Christmas

By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist

December 22,2012; 2:25PM,EST

 

Weather for the Northeast is detailed in the above AccuWeather.com video.

A last-minute snowstorm will allow more of the Northeast to experience a white Christmas after all.

It is beginning to look more like Christmas across northern New England, downwind of lakes Erie and Ontario and the central Alleghenies following the late-week winter storm and lake-effect snow.

But there are still plenty of places across the Northeast where the ground is bare and residents are wishing for a white Christmas.
AccuWeather.com has good news for most of those residents with a storm in the works for the Northeast Christmas Eve into Christmas Day.

The storm will be far from a repeat of the Midwest blizzard with a general 1 to 3 inches expected to spread from northern Ohio and Pennsylvania to central and southern New England.

The snow will be moving in a southwest-to-northeast fashion across these areas Monday into Tuesday.

While not enough to bring holiday travel to a standstill, a general 1 to 3 inches of snow would still cover roadways, which may create slick conditions for Christmas Eve services.
Last-minute holiday air travelers may also face delays.
Cities where the snow is expected to guarantee a white Christmas include Williamsport and Allentown, Pa., Albany and Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Boston, Mass., Portsmouth, N.H., and Providence, R.I.
However, not all of the Northeast will see a white Christmas.
A surge of milder air would prevent anything but rain falling across southern New Jersey, central and southern Delaware, southern Maryland, Washington, D.C., and most of Virginia.

Prior to the arrival of the Christmas Eve storm, a brisk and chilly Sunday is shaping up for the Northeast.

"In the swath from northern Maryland, Philadelphia and [far] northern Delaware to central New Jersey, New York City and Long Island, part rain and part snow are most likely," stated AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski. The same can be said for far northern Virginia.

Kids and those young at heart should not get excited for a white Christmas in this zone. Little, if any, of the snow will accumulate.
As the upcoming storm departs the Northeast Tuesday night, residents and visitors will have to quickly turn their attention to a new storm that will be far more potent.
This second storm will evolve into a major winter storm for the Northeast, complete with howling winds, soaking rain and substantial snow.

Twitter user AymanMohyeldin_ shared this snowman picture on Thursday, December 20, 2012. Many more children across the