By Alex Sosnowski, Expert Senior Meteorologist
February 13,2014; 11:10AM,EST
Even though snow tapered off or changed to rain in parts of the Northeast Thursday afternoon, more snow is coming from the nor'easter.
Some locations may even experience thunder and lightning with the last batch of snow from the storm.
A storm that brought heavy ice and snow to the interior South at midweek has wasted no time clobbering the Northeast on Thursday with heavy snow, wintry mix, gusty winds and disruptions to travel and daily activities.
A push of warmer air from the ocean changed snow to rain along part of the I-95 corridor Thursday morning. A push of dry air from the south managed to shut down snow, ice and rain for a time Thursday afternoon. However, more snow is forecast to pivot across the I-95 mid-Atlantic Thursday night.
The snow will roll from southwest to northeast, bringing an accumulation of a couple of inches to some coastal areas, but perhaps as much as a fresh 6 inches of so to areas north and west of I-95.
The snow can cover up roads and sidewalks that had been cleared off Thursday afternoon.
Meanwhile, heavy snow will continue to push northward into eastern upstate New York and New England, where the bulk of the storm is yet to come Thursday night.
Thousands of flight delays and cancellations occurred well away from the storm, due to aircraft and crews being displaced at southern hubs on Wednesday. These delays and cancelations continued Thursday. More than 5,600 flights were canceled into or out of the United States Thursday with at least 1,100 other flights delayed.
The storm has delivered up to about 18 inches of snow on parts of the central Appalachians and interior mid-Atlantic thus far. Philadelphia now has at least a top-five winter in terms of snowfall.
With the snow that has already fallen and the additional snow coming Thursday night, travel will remain difficult and dangerous in many areas of the Northeast.
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According to Senior Meteorologist Henry Margusity, "In some areas from parts of Virginia northeastward to New England, it may seem like a blizzard at times."
As the storm strengthens into Thursday night, enough onshore wind may be generated to cause minor flooding at times of high tide from the Delmarva Peninsula to Maine.
The highest astronomical tides typically occur a day or so before the full moon, which happens to be on Friday, Valentine's Day. Water levels are likely to run about 2 feet above published levels from New Jersey on to the north.
There is the possibility of the power being knocked out in some of the same communities that were hit a week earlier.
For folks looking for a break in the cold, wintry pattern, a change to warmer weather is possible beginning around Feb. 17 or 18 and may continue through much of the rest of the month. The amount of flooding, if any, will depend on how quickly snow melts over the region and whether or not heavy rain accompanies the thaw.
Prior to the warmup next week, another storm with snow will swing from the Central states on Friday to the mid-Atlantic and New England coast by Saturday.
That storm could strengthen rapidly near Cape Cod, Mass., and could bring near-blizzard conditions to part of southeastern New England and the Maritimes.
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- Lina Shakur · Marywood Universityeveryone stop crying about weather please, be thankful your alive...bunch a wusses.
Michael Sokolowski · Top Commenter · Massabesic High School
Mike McDonough · Works at Professional job seekerThis is perhaps the most disagreement I've seen all winter on a forecast! Accuweather is ALL over the place with this! The website says 4-8 inches for my town (located near where the borders of NY, VT, and MA come together) Thursday into Friday. The Accuweather app on my Android phone says 8-12 inches. The graphic (on this page) in the "Major Winter Storm To Target Northeast" article by Alex Sosnowski shows 12-18 inches. I know it's not an exact science, but just 48 hours out shouldn't we have something a bit more solid? At the very least, shouldn't Accuweather at least agree between its different mediums?
Tim Trivellin · Top Commenter · Drexel University
Charlie Spivey · Follow · Top Commenter · Works at Retired/DisabledI agree. I am at a point now, that I am just going wait and see what it brings. Too many conflicting weather reports out there. We had a local forecaster here, in 2000, that went off the computer and did his on prediction. He was of the old school and knew what he was doing. He was the only one who predicted a huge storm and was the only one who was right. Computers are not infallible. As the old saying goes, garbage in, garbage out.- Charlie Spivey · Follow · Top Commenter · Works at Retired/DisabledYeah, I'm down in Virginia and I have heard or seen anywhere from 1" to 3" all way up to 8' to 12" of snow in this area as well as a Winter Mix for Thursday. Guess they need to bring back an old school forecaster that doesn't live and die by the computer models.
Christopher Abbott · Salea Associate at GOLDCOAST SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTYHopefully this is the BIG ONE...then bring on an early Spring....39 days and counting.
William VanidestinePeople in the southern states have never seen snow or better yet don't know how to drive in it. Go up north to Maine, Vermont areas and see snowfall 50 feet ..not drifts . Actual snowfall to the point of walking in top of telephone wires !!. Bangor .Maine .. Pnebscott county. . Bar harbor !!..
Linda Long Turner · Top Commenter · Santa Rosa High School
Michael Pasternak · Key Account Manager at Gexpro ServicesWilliam, don't forget, there are alot of transplants in the southern states who are familiar w/snow and ice on roads. The thing you are forgetting is that the south does not spend $$ on snow removal equipment since its more of a rarity rather than a freqeuent occurence...its like you guys up there w/air conditioning...hardly ever use it, correct?
Adrian Norris · Follow · Cambridge, MarylandGlobal Warming will be back in a couple of months, so kick back and enjoy this wintery ride.
Alicia Passerini Moore · Top CommenterGlobal warming does not necessarily mean it's hot all the time. The real term should be climate change which brings on extreme climate which I think it pretty much has been. Tell me, have you ever heard of a polar vortex hitting the country not once, but twice? Never in my 58 years. Not to mention the big, deadly tornados that have ravaged many parts of the country in the last decade, including states that never used to get them. I beg to differ with you climate deniers.
Don HaworthAlicia Passerini Moore If you really are 58 you should remember winters in the late 60's and early 70's that the polar air masses did move down into the lower 48, sometimes very far south. They were called a Polar Air Mass and not a Polar Vortex. The science community that studied global climate at that time was warning us about another Ice Age that would be significant enough to prevent sufficient crops to be grown over most of North America. They also predicted that most of the population in Canada and the northern US States would have to move south, those areas would be to cold in the winter. The most significant factor effecting the temperature of the Earth is the Sun. The amount of radiation the Sun emits constantly changes. If the amount of radiation from the Sun decreases, we could turn the whole planet into a giant...See More
Bill Wolfe · Top Commenter · Middletown HighAnd once again I will believe it when I see it! Why don't you all just nowcast instead of saying well if it does this or does that.
Gail Hurst Hyde · Family Doctor at Hygeia Family MedicineA "Nor'easter" is NOT just a storm that hits the Northeast. Ask some older person from near the coast of New England. It's a longstanding, classic term for a storm that COMES FROM a weather system to the northeast of New England. This storm, Pax, is headed to the NE, but it's coming from the South. It is not a Nor'easter.
I live in Western NC, and I've noticed we tend to get snow from 3 different types of scenarios. When there IS a Nor'easter, a little tongue of it often slips down over the Appalachian Mountain chain, and we'll get a small amount of relatively fine snow. Another kind is what y'all and my husband call an "Alberta Clipper", which moves across the country from the West, and may bring us 2-4 inches of what seems like real snow. But storms like Pax, that sweep from Texas, across the deep South, picking up lots of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, and then on up across us on their way to the NE, are the ones that can really dump lots of heavy, wet snow on us, and often ice on places in the middle of our state, like Raleigh and Fuquay-Varina. I think these need a cool name too. Maybe "Southern Slammer" would be a good one!- Charlie Spivey · Follow · Top Commenter · Works at Retired/DisabledAs a former Coastie, I can say that Brian is dead on point. I have been through many of those things while in the Coast Guard, both ashore and at sea. I was stationed on Cape Cod, and those things came from generally the south west as they were coming up the coast. They come across the gulf coast area and once off the coast start getting wound up and move up along the coast. Due to the predominate steering currents, you will not, as a rule, get a storm from the North East.
Christopher O'Brien · Top Commenter · Belchertown, Massachusetts
Sunjay GuptaThere is nothing to bring that L up NE as your pretty picture shows. Check your 500mb charts - the jetstream will carry that L East. The L direction on the surface chart shows it moving east. NYC may get rain, may get couple of inches of wet stuff. Check Wunderground - I think their predictions for next two days are more ACCUrate.
Beth PetersonI happen to like Wunderground.
But for my area, in NJ, it is predicting 9-16 inches all told. They just break it down better. Wed. night 1-3 inches, Thurs. 5-8 inches, Thurs. night 3-5 inches.
Just for good measure, they're predicting a coating of snow Friday night into Saturday.
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