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Midwest and Northeast brace for snow and ice in the days before Christmas
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12/24/2024
A storm moving east is bringing snow and ice from the Midwest to the Northeast and mid-Atlantic just in time for Christmas Eve.
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La Crosse, Wisconsin, on the back side of this system, the snow still falling in areas around
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mainly Madison up to Sheboygan and West Bend on the back side of the storm system. Much of
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Michigan is seeing some snow from Detroit. South, though, parts of Wayne and Monroe counties,
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Lenawee County, seeing a little bit of rain. But the snow is returning to areas just to the north
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of Angola, Indiana. So we'll see a little bit of cooler air roll back in on the back side of this.
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And again, in the northeast, the bulk of this rolls through tonight. Temperatures in advance,
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19 in Burlington. It's still cold there. The warmup has been really slow going in the New
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England states, 24 in Boston, a cold time there. 43, though, in Columbus. So the warmth is winning
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out well west of the mountains. And that's going to be the theme of the week here. There are your
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winter weather advisories. I want to point out what's going on Baltimore, D.C. and Philadelphia.
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South of the bulk of the snow, we're going to see a little bit of freezing rain, light freezing rain
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will be leading to some trouble tomorrow morning as our storm brings milder air aloft east. But we
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got down to one yesterday or this morning, I should say, in some of the suburbs northwest
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of Philadelphia. So there's plenty of cold air in place. The ground has been absolutely frozen
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and road surfaces certainly beginning very cold with some low temperatures on the surface,
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even if it's 34, 35 degrees with rain falling on top of that. We may have inherited some cold
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problems from the past two days or so and therefore freezing rain could glaze some of
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these surfaces Baltimore, D.C. and Philadelphia in the morning. Roads may be coated with a very
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thin layer of ice. We'll have snow to the north here with snow covering the roads in many other
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areas and a little quick shot of snow into New York City. No significant accumulations there
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because of the limited nature of this. But farther northwest, you're going to see a little more
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precipitation before the atmosphere dries as it descends from the mountains. That's where we're
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looking at one to three inches of snow. Three to six inches into places near Utica and Rome,
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New York. Six plus into the Adirondacks and the Green Mountains there. So here's Burlington's
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AccuWeather Wintercast. Three to six inches of snow beginning around 9 p.m. continuing to around
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midday on Christmas Eve. Philadelphia, we have the icy AccuWeather Wintercast. Look for this
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product on the AccuWeather app at accuweather.com. Eighty-one percent chance we see at least a trace
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of freezing rain, perhaps even a few hundredths of an inch. That spells trouble. It's going to
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be a problem. Elsewhere, New York City, 36. A little bit of light snow. Average high 42. So that
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is still six below average for Christmas Eve. D.C., average high 47. A little ice in the morning.
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Precisely a normal Christmas Eve in Pittsburgh with a little bit of a rain snow mix and 39 degrees.
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