Winter storm could strike the Northeast with significant ice this Thursday

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After storms with mostly light snow on Monday and Wednesday, a new system could lead to dangerous travel conditions on Thursday morning.

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00:00We are starting a pattern that is just

00:02a stormy pattern into mid February.

00:03So we're going to have a couple weeks of this.

00:07Get ready, I hope you took

00:08advantage of today.

00:09Kind of the warmer weather because

00:10more precipitation is on the way.

00:12So let's break down what to expect.

00:14First of all,

00:14over the last couple of hours,

00:16some of us haven't really gotten

00:17a break from the precipitation,

00:19and you can see the mild air,

00:20meaning we're not just seeing snow,

00:22but we saw some rain and even some

00:24kind of wintry mix freezing rain

00:25sleet in there as well.

00:27We have seen some accumulating snow

00:28though Rockport, Maine,

00:29seeing 5 inches in the last 24 hours

00:31in parts of New Hampshire as well.

00:33All the way down to Heartbreak,

00:35New York, seeing 3.1 inches of snow.

00:37More is on the way,

00:38so here's the first kind of burst of

00:40snow that will get Wednesday into

00:42parts of Pennsylvania.

00:43Not a huge impact here,

00:44but a short period of time picking up

00:46one to maybe three inches in some areas.

00:49Here's the bigger snow that we're

00:50going to see from this midweek storm

00:53that starts in the center of the

00:54country and then it's going to move

00:56into the Northeast, but not just bringing snow.

00:59We're breaking this up starting with the snow.

01:01We're looking at overall snow totals

01:03one to three inches for most of us.

01:05We have some pockets where we have,

01:07you know the darker blue shades here,

01:09and that's three to six inches with your

01:11active other local storm max of 9 inches.

01:13Of snow, but it's not just snow.

01:15We're going to see some overlap.

01:17With the ice and you'll notice there's

01:20some areas that are get snow and freezing

01:22rain. Some areas really trending

01:24more towards just freezing rain.

01:26Either way, that means slick spots on the roads,

01:28really even creating some dangerous situations,

01:31especially in the areas in this darker pink color.

01:34That's what we're talking about.

01:35Significant ice coverage,

01:37so not just so you know a little bit

01:39of trace of freezing rain creating slick spots.

01:42No, we get more accumulating.

01:43That's when we talk about power outages,

01:45tree limbs, power lines being weighed

01:47down at leading to power outages.

01:48Something to make sure you are prepared for

01:50as we head towards Wednesday Thursday there.

01:54Now let's take a quick look at future

01:55radar and kind of how this plays out.

01:57We start with that quick burst of snow

01:58and then we see the rain move in.

02:01We see that pink start to be in the mix

02:04as well that freezing rain and then some snow

02:06as well and you'll see where they overlap.

02:08We see more snow as this moves north.

02:10Some rain coming in behind it as well.

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