Storm to pound northeastern US with rain, wind and spotty ice

Storm to pound northeastern US with rain, wind and spotty ice, As a snowstorm takes aim at locations of the Midwest, the aforementioned storm will accompany mostly rain but aswell airy winds, desultory calamity and blotchy ice to the northeastern United States spanning Tuesday to Thursday.

"With the storm demography a clue west of the Appalachians, warmer air will beck arctic over abundant of the eastern division of the nation, consistent in rain for abounding areas," According to AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams.

Most of the rain will abatement in two batches.

The aboriginal accumulation will advance arctic through the mid-Atlantic states on Tuesday into Tuesday night and will affect New England during Tuesday night into Wednesday.

Enough algid air will be in abode at the access of the aboriginal annular of rain to acquiesce pockets of freezing rain and sleet. A lot of of the ice will be abrupt and about bound to areas from axial and arctic Pennsylvania and upstate New York to autogenous New England.

Along Interstate 95, the storm will be all rain in Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia. A admixture of snow, barrage and freezing rain may announce the rain from New York City to Boston and Portland, Maine.

The additional accumulation of rain will be the heaviest in a lot of locations and will beat northeastward beyond the mid-Atlantic states during Wednesday and Wednesday night, afore affecting New England Wednesday night into Thursday.

Gusty apprehension will precede, accompany and chase the additional accumulation of rain. A lot of gusts will ambit amid 40 and 50 mph, but can be college abutting to the coast.

While the greatest accident of astringent thunderstorms will amplitude from Virginia on south, it is accessible the storm may aftermath a squall line, which is a aggregate of abrupt torrential downpours and able winds, forth abundant of the I-95 corridor.

"This week's squall will hit Wednesday night, afterwards a lot of humans are home from plan and academy from Washington, D.C., to New York City," According to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski.

The squall will hit portions of New England during Thursday morning and midday, including Hartford, Connecticut; Providence, Rhode Island; Boston and Portland, Maine.

The squall will be almighty abundant to could cause poor afterimage and a accident of hydroplaning for motorists, as able-bodied as the abeyant for airline delays.

In accession to the blackmail for burghal flooding, downed timberline limbs and desultory ability outages, there could aswell be a aeon of littoral flooding.

"Strong south to southeast apprehension will advance Atlantic Ocean baptize against Long Island and the southern bank of New England with the accident of accessory littoral calamity at times of top course during Wednesday night," Pydynowski said.

Away from the Atlantic Seaboard, the additional accumulation of rain will be best abiding and will thoroughly deluge areas from western Virginia and West Virginia to arctic Maine. This includes Charleston, West Virginia; Pittsburgh; and Buffalo, New York. At the appendage end of the storm, during Thursday into Thursday night, abundant algid air will clarify aback in to acquiesce snow showers in these areas.

Up to a few inches of snow may abatement from locations of the Appalachians to the lower Great Lakes above-mentioned to the end of the week.
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