In the South, a storm system that we'll monitor through the weekend is tracking from southeast Texas to south-central Alabama today. A chilly and occasionally heavy rain is spreading from eastern Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana toward the Southeast. Rainfall could locally approach 3 inches from easternmost Texas to Alabama.
Along the northern Gulf Coast be prepared for thunderstorms and gusty winds from Houston to New Orleans to southern Georgia and the northern half of Florida. Meanwhile, snow or rain changing to snow will spread across northern and central Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee and the southern Appalachians. The Cumberland Plateau and Smoky Mountains could pick up 6 inches of snow by Saturday night. This will be followed by a sharp cold snap Saturday through Monday for the South (moderating by Monday in the southern Plains) along with gusty northerly winds.
A weekend winter storm will target parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Heavy snow will overspread the Mid-Atlantic States Saturday and Saturday night including West Virginia, Virginia minus the Tidewater area, Maryland, Delaware, southern and eastern Pennsylvania and finally southeast New York. The heavy snow will shift from the Mid-Atlantic, through southeast New York, to southern New England, coastal New Hampshire and Down East Maine Saturday night and Sunday. The southern Mid-Atlantic, south of the Mason-Dixon Line, could pick up anywhere from 6 to 8 inches of snow with localized 12-inch amounts.
The zone from Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Trenton, Newark-New York City, Hartford and Boston to the coast as well as coastal New Hampshire and Down East Maine could see anyway from 6 inches to over a foot of snow. Northwest of major Northeast Corridor Cities, snow amounts could rapidly decrease to almost nothing. The intensifying and increasingly windy storm will track from off the Mid-Atlantic Coast to south of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia late Saturday to late Sunday. As it does strengthen Saturday night and Sunday, increasingly strong northeast winds will batter the coastline from New Jersey to Long Island and coastal Massachusetts to coastal Maine. The strong winds along with snowfall rates that could reach 2 to 3 inches/hour could lead to blizzard conditions from New York City to southern and eastern New England Saturday night and Sunday.
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