WeatherFanatics: Northeast Snow Threats to Continue Next Week

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Northeast Snow Threats to Continue Next Week

By Alex Sosnowski, Expert Senior Meteorologist

January 23,2014; 9:32PM,EST

A storm that has a chance of bringing accumulating snow to a large part of the Northeast will occur late Sunday into Monday. Another potential storm for the middle of next week is also being monitored.
The train of Alberta Clipper storms that began a couple of weeks ago will continue into early next week. Prior to dipping into the United States, the storms pass over the western and prairie provinces of Canada, where they get their name. Most of these storms are moisture-starved.
The pattern will have yielded close to a dozen clipper storms by this weekend. These storms have been of various strength and have taken a variety of paths.

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After a large, strong clipper storm blasts the Great Lakes and a large part of the Northeast with wind, snow and whiteouts Friday night into Saturday night, the next clipper storm could take a path a bit farther south.

It is possible the track of the storm and its snow may shift farther to the north or to the south as more information becomes available.
This clipper is scheduled to take a track across the Ohio Valley Sunday.
The exact track and strength of the Sunday night/Monday storm will determine how much snow falls and where the cut off to the band of accumulating snow occurs.
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However, at this early stage, the indications are there is at least a chance of accumulating snow and slippery travel bounded by West Virginia and northern Virginia to the south and New York state and New England to the north.
Yet another storm may affect part of the East Coast prior to the big game at East Rutherford, N.J.
According to AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Bernie Rayno, "We have to watch for a storm trying to make a run up along the Atlantic Seaboard during the middle of next week."
Rayno is concerned that upper-level steering winds will change next week. While the change in jet stream winds would end the long train of Alberta Clipper storms, it could mark the beginning of a pattern favoring a different breed of storms, which move up from the South.

There would still be plenty of cold air in place for snow if such a storm were to hug the coast, rather than head quickly out to sea. Storms that typically move up from the South pack a great deal of moisture from both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.
Details on the track and intensity of the storms and the extent of disruptions to travel and other daily activities next week will be made available as soon as possible on AccuWeather.com.

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