US Northeast Weather: Heavy Rains To Bring Urban Floods And Delay Travels, Snow Also Seen To Accumulate

Weather experts said that heavy rains could bring urban floods that can delay travels in the northeastern portion of the United States.

Based on the weather forecast, the accumulation of snow is very possible in this region.

Meteorologists further warned that dangerous conditions may develop on some highways where heavy snow squalls could take place.

They also said that the last storm in a series tends to be the strongest and this has placed the cold air in on its backside due to quickening winds.

Heavy Snow

The National Weather Service (NWS) said that a low-level disturbance that has been sustaining locally heavy snow over the central High Plains was forecasted to weaken and allow the snow there, as well as the snow over the central to southern Rockies, to gradually taper off into this evening.

On Saturday, a low pressure center is also forecasted to consolidate over the Ohio Valley when the system intensifies more rapidly and tracks northeastward into the lower Great Lakes by the evening.

This will lead to areas of locally heavy rain along with increasingly strong and gusty winds to develop from the Ohio Valley to New England during late Saturday into Sunday.

Meanwhile, the colder air wrapping around the low pressure center is expected to change the rain to wet snow from across the Great Lakes to portions of northern New England especially for the higher elevations.

In the wake of these systems high pressure will build in over the central US and will promote drying out on Saturday. Further, the dry weather will extend into much of the western US.

However, moisture associated with the next Pacific system is also forecasted to reach the Olympic Peninsula later today with rain for the lower elevations and snow for rather high elevations.

The rain and mountain snow is also seen to expand southward across Oregon and into northern California on Saturday into Saturday night.

The Cascades will see snow picking up intensity on Saturday as the next batch of moisture gets ready to reach the coastline of the Pacific Northwest by early on Sunday.

Unsettled Weather Pattern

Meanwhile, the middle section of the country will be in an unsettled pattern with active to locally severe weather towards the weekend.

This as the upper-level Pacific moisture in association with a subtropical jet stream will interact with a cold air mass dipping into the center of the country.

On the other hand, the lower-level moisture from the Gulf of Mexico will be ingested into the system as well.

These complex interactions will result in an axis of heavy rain and possibly severe weather to develop over the Lower Mississippi Valley spreading across the Gulf states and into the Southeast by Saturday.

The Storm Prediction Center has also issued Slight Risk warning in effect for severe weather through Sunday morning for parts of the Deep South and Southeast.

The Weather Prediction Center has Moderate and Slight Risks warning in effect for much of the same region for excessive rainfall and flooding concerns.