Severe snowstorm likely Friday through Sunday — Blizzard watch

Blizzard conditions in Cleveland Park, D.C., on February 10, 2010.

Rain continues into Thursday night and Friday morning, when the weather service says the precipitation will turn to snow around noon. Snow and drizzle began falling early Wednesday across much of Kentucky and Tennessee leading school… Capital Weather Gang’s Angela Fritz has your forecast.

There is still significant uncertainty in the onset time of snow.

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Sater said winds could gust at 50 miles per hour and higher. The combination of snow and wind is likely to severely restrict visibility.

The energy that will eventually become the East Coast storm is pushing onto the West Coast Tuesday afternoon. Long Island, especially on the east end, and the Jersey Shore could get tricky as some mixing could occur which could lower amounts somewhat.

The timeline of the storm has shifted and things should remain dry through Friday. But the exact details are still just a bit fuzzy locally. I wouldn’t rule out a complete miss or slightly more snow to the north at this point.

Along with several other infamous winter storms of the past few decades, the 1992 storm is now one of the leading historical analogues for this week’s blizzard.

The latest model to come in was the European model this afternoon. “We can move the snow”. Gale conditions are likely over the Bay.

Robinson said people who live in low-lying or flood-prone areas should start preparing. Forecast models tend to handle these scenarios horribly, but I have noticed that the guidance is handling this well today.

The Morris County Office of Emergency Management was not locked into a specific storm model as of Wednesday morning, saying the storm could still track south and significantly lower accumulation totals.

The primary one is a snow/sleet/rain line many models have been showing east and south of Anne Arundel.

The same type of timing differences are present in the operational models. “That is even more uncertain this far out, although if it’s a slow-moving storm then it doesn’t matter as much since the surge could stay high through a couple of tidal cycles”.

Storm Team 4 is continuing to track a wintry storm that could pack this season’s first punch of significant snowfall.

The ensembles suggest that the jackpot for snow will probably be somewhere in northwestern Virginia but in reality it could be nearly anywhere west of the city where the green shades are depicted. Residents may see a whopping half an inch of snow that night.

Kenneth G. Libbrecht, a physicist and snowflake expert at the California Institute of Technology, says that by far the flakes that are the most efficient accumulators are dendrites, those hexagonal masterpieces so often replicated in holiday decorations. A winter storm watch means that there is a potential for snow, sleet or ice in accumulations that may make travel hard. “Snowfall may approach two feet for some locations, including the Baltimore and Washington, DC, metro areas”.

“It’s not out of the question that some localized areas receive over 2 feet of fresh snow”, CNN meteorologist Taylor Ward said.