FILE – A individual braces in opposition to the wind as a wintry mixture of snow and rain falls in Boston, March 14, 2023. A iciness climate gadget shifting via the U.S. is expected to wallop the East Coast this weekend, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, into Sunday, Jan. 7, with a mixture of snow and freezing rain from the southern Appalachians to the Northeast even supposing it is too early to say precisely which spaces gets what precipitation and what kind of. (AP Photo/Michael Casey, File)
NEW YORK – A iciness climate gadget shifting via the U.S. is expected to wallop the East Coast this weekend with a mixture of snow and freezing rain from the southern Appalachians to the Northeast — even supposing it is too early to say precisely which spaces gets what sort of precipitation and what kind of.
Details on the storm’s trail must company up this week as the Pacific gadget strikes via Colorado and New Mexico Thursday and into Texas and the Southeast ahead of shifting up the East Coast, stated Tony Fracasso, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
“It’s still a few days away, so we’ll have to hash out the storm track — where the precipitation falls, and how long the cold air can stay,” he stated Wednesday.
Major U.S. towns accustomed to white winters — equivalent to Boston, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia — did not obtain a lot snow ultimate yr due to a loss of chilly air.
The National Weather Service in New York City posted on social media platform X Wednesday that the town has a low chance of snow and sleet Saturday into Sunday, with important blizzard expected in spaces west and north of the town.
Earlier this week, the NWS of New York said that 2023 would move down as the town’s “least snowiness” yr, with simply 2.3 inches (6 centimeters) measured in Central Park.
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