Many parts of Northeastern Pennsylvania are still digging out from our last snow storm. Some are still waiting for power in the Southeast sector. Locally, in Philadephia, in the Penn State University area, the Pocono's extending down to Strousburg, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and Dunmore snow mounds are everywhere, piled up to keep at least one way traffic on a two lane - open.
Meteorologists are suggesting we're in for another Northeastern blast by the end of this week.
U.S. Winter Storm seen spreading Snow, Sleet across South
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Monday Feb. 10, 2014
Rain, sleet and snow are expected to spread across the southern U.S., including Atlanta’s northern suburbs, less than two weeks after a winter storm stranded thousands of motorists and children in cars, buses and schools in the region.
Atlanta’s northern suburbs may get 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.6 centimeters) of snow through the next three days as the storm moves from Texas to the southern Appalachian Mountains, according to the U.S. Weather Prediction Center.
The city itself will probably be spared this time, said Steve Wistar, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania.
“In this storm it looks like Atlanta is in the southern edge,” Wistar said. “Because the south is less prepared to deal with some of these things it will be a real concern, but most of Georgia south of Atlanta will just get rain.”
A winter storm watch, meaning “there is a potential for significant snow, sleet or ice accumulations” that may affect travel, extends from Texas to Georgia covering parts of seven states, according to the National Weather Service.
The worst of the snow and ice will probably be across Arkansas and Tennessee, Wistar said. Wichita, Kansas and Tulsa, Oklahoma, may get some snow as well, he said.
A winter-weather advisory, meaning enough snow may fall to cause travel difficulties, has been issued for parts of Alabama, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas, according to the National Weather Service.
After the storm passes across the South, there is a chance it will gather strength off the coast of North Carolina and then head north up the East Coast, according to the service’s eastern region headquarters.
“We have to figure out whether it goes up the coast or further out to sea and spares places like Pennsylvania, where some people still don’t have power,” Wistar said.
Winter Storm Pax Forecast
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Sunday Feb. 9, 2014
The Weather Channel has named Winter Storm Pax, the 16th named storm of our 2013-14 winter storm season.
The wintry mess starts in earnest Monday morning, as a stripe of snow, sleet and freezing rain will develop in parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and possibly extreme north Texas. It will then spread eastward into the Mid-South region.
Several inches of snow and sleet may accumulate by early Monday evening in parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and possibly parts of west Tennessee and northern Mississippi. Travel may become hazardous in these areas by midday Monday.
At the same time, snow will shift out of Arkansas and Oklahoma into Tennessee and North Carolina Monday night into Tuesday. Snow is also possible for the northernmost counties of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Some sleet or freezing rain may fan out over parts of southern North Carolina and northern South Carolina.
Already, the National Weather Service has posted winter storm watches from Arkansas to northern Georgia, meaning there is the potential for adverse winter weather conditions.
Tuesday night into Wednesday, the wintry mess of snow, sleet and freezing rain will likely linger in the southern Appalachians and adjacent Piedmont of north Georgia and the western Carolinas while spreading farther east into central North Carolina and the South Carolina Midlands and northward into Virginia and the Delmarva Peninsula. Significant ice accumulations are possible over parts of Georgia and the Carolinas with this phase of the storm.
Meanwhile, a second ripple of energy will approach from the west. This may lead to some additional wintry precipitation over parts of Mississippi, Alabama, and middle and west Tennessee, though confidence on the timing and details of this second piece of energy is still relatively low.
The second piece of energy we just mentioned in the Southern section of the forecast will finally contribute to the development of a low pressure center over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico or eastern Gulf Coast by Wednesday. This low is then forecast to move in a generally northeastward direction through Thursday and early Friday.
There is a potential for significant accumulating snow in the Northeast, including the I-95 urban corridor, from late Wednesday through Thursday or early Friday.
Winter Storm Nika, Pennsylvania Power outages linger
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Sunday Feb. 9, 2014
About 38,000 utility customers in eastern Pennsylvania remained in the dark four days after an ice storm knocked down trees and snapped power lines as yet another winter storm comes through the region.
Winter Storm Nika, which dumped ice and snow from Illinois to Maine last week, overran a layer of cold air near the surface of the earth in the Northeast late Tuesday night into Wednesday, weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce said. "This resulted in freezing rain in southeast Pennsylvania that accumulated one-quarter to one-half inch, leading to tree damage and widespread power outages."
The Philadelphia area was hit the hardest. PECO alone reported 623,000 outages, making it the second-worst storm in the company's history, topped only by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
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We are not far out from it, but a system that will bring severe thunderstorms capable of tornadoes across Florida later Wednesday into Wednesday night will start off the domino effect for this storm. A piece of energy will break off and move up the east coast next week, which will bring a slew of weather conditions similar to that of March 1993′s Super Storm.
Heavy snow will fall in Tennessee and Northern AL and Georgia with such a pattern. It will go on to produce heavy snow across Western North Carolina, all of Virginia, and up the entire Mid-Atlantic and Northeast States from there. The potential for widespread blizzard conditions for these areas is growing. Confidence now is medium, but growing … due to the performance of this model this winter thus far being accurate.
