Graphics: Heavy snow to slam the New England areas now through Wednesday
| Published on November 22, 2011 7:35 pm PT – By TWS Senior Meteorologist – Edited by Staff Editor |
(TheWeatherSpace.com) – Snowfall is starting across Eastern New York as a strong surface low moves into the area, which will bring heavy snowfall and high ice/sleet accumulations to the New England zones through Wednesday.
Latest radar imagery shows a band of heavy precipitation entering the Eastern New York areas. This will bring heavy snow across there andSouthern Vermont tonight, spreading north and east through New England, all the way into Canada by morning
.Very heavy snowfall is expected early Wednesday morning across the New England zones.
This snowfall will end as the day moves on and the associated surface low moves into the Atlantic, through the Long Island areas.
Gusty winds will bring near-blizzard conditions across parts of the coastal zones of Maine on Wednesday.
In addition to the snowfall, thundersnow in the heaviest bands is very likely.
TWS has developed three maps for this event and they are available at the links below.
Snowfall Forecast
Ice Forecast
Sleet Forecast
from: http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-112211-new-england-snow-amounts.html