forecast right. hats off to our local meteorologists hard at work refining this forecast. it looks like new york city will see more snow than originally anticipated. so let s take a look at it. we ve got the cold front, arctic cold front bringing snow now to the new york city area and then the worst of the snow comes overnight tonight into saturday. we will see some blockbuster storm totals definitely from the delmarva toward maine, boston you could hit the jackpot with over a foot or more. here are the winter weather alerts. a blizzard warning in effects for parts of maryland, delaware, jersey, massachusetts, rhode island as well as connecticut. there is our forecast snowfall. we ve been in pretty good agreement that it will be a coastal event. 6 to 12 inches for a lot of these big cities. west of new york that s where the snow totals go down. but i m pretty confident, dana, that we might have to
winter storm warnings, and and it will cause that across and check with your airline i can get. future airlines out of here, the storm system will move across the northwest. the forecast snowfall, not a whole lot of snow with this but across areas that don t typically see a lot of snow and ice at any point during the year. back to you. rob: enough to make it annoying. jillian: so excited about this, would rather hang out with their pets than people. rob: according to a new study that found half of americans would skip out on human commitments specifically to get quality time with their dog.
tornado watches but we have just spotted on doppler radar a tornado warning for north carolina. that s east of ashville. so we are still looking at the potential of severe storms tonight and overnight if you live in the south. no weather radios on. make sure you are listening to your forecast. then we have the cold side of the storm the purples and pinks, freezing rain and/or sleet. difficult if not impossible to travel on. winter weather advisories posted from the midwest to the great lakes to the northeast to new england where in some cases we could get upwards of a foot of snow. the ice accumulation is what i m concerned with. we could see a quarter of an inch to half an inch of ice on the power lines on the roadways heading into work tomorrow be be so careful. you cannot travel on ice. there s a look at your future radar as this storm moves in to canada. but we are still going to see the remnants of the cold front moving eastward and the potential for rain, freezing rain, a mixture
warnings for parts of north dakota and freezing rain advisories down wind of the great lakes as well as western pennsylvania. really tricky driving if you re heading home this weekend especially across the southeast where we have a tornado watch in effect. we don t have warnings but just so you know you want to be paying close attention to your local weather stations. we have a lot of snow moving across the great lakes as well as interior sections of the northeast. several inches of snow over the next 12 to 24 hours and see the pink here that s freezing rain. so really dangerous conditions on the roadways not only today but into sunday and even monday as the next batch moves in with the colder air. forecast snowfall, several inches here for the lower elevations. higher elevations could get over a foot. skiers love it. across the upper midwest, the next weather maker moves in bringing several inches of snow along with the coldest air of the season.