Millions in the eastern United States face a large storm that will unleash heavy rain, gusty winds and even some accumulating snow later this weekend into the start of next week.
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00:00 I feel pretty confident that we are looking at a damaging wind event Sunday night in the Monday morning. I have the area highlighted in red.
00:08 We do have New York City in the area. I think it has a higher probability a little farther north and east, but really anywhere in red.
00:16 This is what we're looking at. Wind gusts over 50 miles per hour. This will be accompanied by the way that wind with a drenching rain as well.
00:24 Now because of the wind and gusts over 50, and I think we could have gusts to 60 in Boston and maybe 70 in Portland,
00:30 I think we're looking at power outages down trees, down power lines, and the wind itself event will likely disrupt the Monday morning commute.
00:41 Now from Boston on north, you're still going to be dealing with the rain, so you're absolutely going to be impacted by the rain with major travel delays.
00:47 All right, here's our snapshot as we go through this weekend here. We start work first with the front in the central part of the United States.
00:55 There's really not a storm with this in the central US on Saturday. It's really not until Sunday as that front approaches the coast that you start getting the storm to form.
01:05 Right, and then it's going to be moving to the north and northeast, and it is going to be strengthening.
01:09 Now there will be enough cold air on the backside of this storm for a little bit of snow.
01:13 I don't think snow is the big story, but I do think there will be accumulating snow.
01:18 It's mostly in the mountains, but there will be accumulating snow in the lower elevations across southern New York State,
01:24 maybe as far west as Batavia, but certainly Rochester, Syracuse, Binghamton, Elmira,
01:31 and I think we may extend this down into the Pocono Plateau as well, where there could be an inch or two Sunday night into Monday morning.
01:38 The biggest impacts are going to be on the southeastern side of the storm. Not only severe weather, but a soaking rain.
01:44 Take a look at our future radar here as we go through Sunday.
01:47 Now, there's going to be a soaking rain here across New York State and Pennsylvania,
01:51 but the area I'm most worried about, where you get the combination of the rain and the wind,
01:56 is going to be from the Delmarva Peninsula all the way up in the eastern parts of Maine.
02:01 Look at this area of rain after 5 o'clock. Really start to focus and concentrate itself along the 95.
02:08 From Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, here comes into New York City the heaviest rain.
02:12 There will be rain before this band, and then watch it start to move toward Boston, Portland,
02:17 and then it swings through Long Island, certainly by the late Monday morning,
02:23 and then it just continues to pour all the way into eastern Maine as we end up in the Monday afternoon.
02:29 Now, it's a solid inch or two of rain, and I think the rain's going to come down hard enough
02:33 for at least some street and highway flooding, probably some flooding in poor drainage areas.
02:38 But again, the wind, this heavy rain is going to be accompanied by wind and severe weather.
02:44 We're worried about some severe weather risk from Florida all the way up into the Delmarva Peninsula,
02:49 but the wind is going to be also the big story.
02:52 Look at this area where we have at least 50 mile per hour winds, eastern North Carolina, southern New Jersey,
02:58 and then it really strengthens right in here from eastern and the central Long Island
03:03 all the way up and toward Boston and Bangor.
03:06 And again, that's why I think there could be a damaging wind event with lots of power outages.
03:11 Again, Long Island, New York City, eastern New England, Sunday night, Monday morning.