AccuWeather's regional expert Dave Dombek highlights a dramatic weather shift in the Northeast with heavy snow expected in the Appalachians and potential power outages. Stay cautious and be prepared!
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00:00AccuWeather Northeast weather expert and meteorologist Dave Dombek. Dave, you joined us yesterday at this time, and it was actually exactly 24 hours ago when an EF0 tornado was about to form in the Pittsburgh metro with this front.
00:13Now, Dave, well, that's a different environment. We've got some snowflakes flying. This is a powerful November front.
00:19Yeah, it certainly is. We had a big change, and, you know, anytime you have a storm that strong, it's November.
00:26It's not really a time you think about thunderstorms and severe weather and tornadoes, but the atmosphere doesn't pay attention to the calendar at times, when the dynamics and everything else going on are very potent.
00:38That's what you had last night. And like you said, much different situation today. Quite a bit colder air has moved in.
00:46We had some much-needed rain, got close to an inch just under in Philadelphia, the biggest rain in about three months, a little over three months since August 18th.
00:56New York City is working on an inch as we speak here. They probably will exceed that over the next 24 hours.
01:04And as you said, too, with the colder air coming in, we do have that transition over to snow, and we're going to be looking at pretty substantial snow amounts over the highest elevations of the Appalachians,
01:15really from the highest elevations of West Virginia, Western Maryland, Garrett County, up into the Lower Highlands.
01:22And also another bullseye to watch will be the Cascades and Poconos.
01:27Absolutely. Well, Dave, as you're doing a lot of your briefings, I know, with some of our TV clients in big cities in the Northeast,
01:33what are the things that you're emphasizing to some of our other affiliates in some of these big city places?
01:42Anything that really has your eye regarding the forecast or maybe hidden problems that may be materializing tonight in some of these areas?
01:50Tonight, I think you're going to see a deterioration of conditions and maybe quite rapidly in that area in far northwestern New Jersey,
01:59over the higher elevation, some of the hills there and certainly up into the Poconos and Cascades,
02:04where it's just wet and mostly rain or maybe some wet snowflakes mixed in now, right currently.
02:11But as the atmosphere cools through the whole column, we will see that transition over to heavy, wet snow,
02:17and things are going to really get bad in a hurry overnight tonight up in the mountains there.
02:22You're going to get heavy snow falling at a pretty substantial rate.
02:27We have the danger for power outages. Although the leaves are off the trees now, you can still get branches,
02:35tree limbs breaking, maybe falling on power lines and so forth.
02:39So that's a concern. And also travel is going to be very, very difficult for a time up there.
02:44As we head into tomorrow, we're going to actually see the area that is getting snow pushing a little farther southeast.
02:52Probably doesn't get down to the I-95 corridor, but it's going to make a pretty close run.
02:58We're actually thinking that Philadelphia has a slightly better chance of seeing their first snowflakes of the season than New York City,
03:06just with the position of the low-pressure system, the storm, where it's located and everything.
03:11But we are concerned about maybe an inch or two or three on some of those northwest New Jersey hills,
03:18and also coding to an inch or two amounts, mostly in brassy, non-paved surfaces,
03:24getting down fairly close to Philadelphia, perhaps into parts of Bucks, Montgomery and Chester counties to the northwest.
03:32All right. Well, that makes sense, Dave.
03:34Considering right now it's colder in eastern Kentucky than it is up in Burlington, Vermont,
03:37just with the orientation of the cold kind of expanding from west-southwest to east-northeast.
03:42And obviously we're getting into the snow season, a good start in Chicago there, about three inches of snow reported there.
03:47Thanks again for your insight. As always, Dave Dobbek, AccuWeather Northeast expert.
03:52You bet. Have a good evening.