UNITED STATES — An 11 a.m. forecast update confirms a significant eastward shift in the developing Nor’easter, dramatically changing snowfall expectations for parts of Pennsylvania while leaving the coastal corridor from Delaware to southern New England firmly in the zone for heavy snow and blizzard conditions.
Forecasters say the storm will not track close enough to the New Jersey coast to pull the strongest deformation band into eastern and central Pennsylvania. As a result, central Pennsylvania is now expected to fall short of earlier Winter Storm Warning projections, and the extreme 2–4 foot totals once hinted at in southern New Jersey are no longer supported by the latest data.
Central Pennsylvania Totals Reduced
The updated snowfall projection map shows noticeably lighter totals across much of central and western Pennsylvania compared to earlier runs. Many inland areas that were once projected for high-end accumulations are now trending closer to modest totals.
Meteorologists note that high snowfall projections are unlikely to verify across most of Pennsylvania, except possibly in southeastern Pennsylvania (SEPA), where heavier banding may still clip the region…