SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) After lake effect snow to end the weekend followed by the coldest air of the winter to start the weekend the focus shifts to a Nor’easter for the end of the weekend. The Storm Team answers some of your questions.
What’s with all this talk about a ‘cross-country storm?’
The storm in question is going to move from the Plains toward the East Coast at the end of this weekend into the weekend bringing with it snow, sleet and ice to a large portion of the middle and eastern United States.
A couple of days ago it looked like Syracuse would just be grazed by the storm, but now the shield of widespread precipitation likely tracks farther north. Luckily for us in Central New York, we are locked into the arctic so we are just dealing with snow. No sleet and, more importantly, no ice!
When does snow from this storm arrive?
Here is the timing for the weekend storm:
The snow from this storm will be widespread (not localized lake effect) and arrive midday Sunday and continue into Monday morning. The steadiest and heaviest snow falls from late Sunday afternoon into Sunday night with snowfall rates of an inch an hour at times. The snow would taper Monday morning but not until after the morning commute.
The temperatures while this happens are in the teens which means road salt won’t work very well. This results in a ‘greasy’ type of snow which makes roads extra slick.
I hear this is a ‘catastrophic’ storm?
For some of the country, but not Central New York…