Snow, ice threats pile up in Northeast in the coming days

In many locations, snow may persist on and off for 24 hours or so. As such, a swath of 6-12 inches of snow is anticipated from Indianapolis and Cleveland to Bangor, Maine, with an AccuWeather Local StormMax of 24 inches.

AccuWeather Global Weather Center – February 15, 2021 –  Repetitive doses of wintry weather are expected to continue for much of the week for portions of the central and eastern United States.

An icy mix began in North Carolina early Saturday morning and stretched northward along the Eastern Seaboard throughout the day Saturday. At the same time, a swath of snow shifted from Illinois through the Great Lakes. Power outages and slippery travel as a result of this sloppy weather were reported even as late as Sunday morning.

For the rest of the week, even more winter weather is on the docket for the Northeast.

The same storm that produced a large swath of snow over portions of Texas and Oklahoma is began to reach the Ohio Valley and portions of the Northeast during Monday morning.

Through Monday and Tuesday, the storm will encompass and persist across the Northeast, bringing a wave of heavy snow. In many locations, snow may persist on and off for 24 hours or so. As such, a swath of 6-12 inches of snow is anticipated from Indianapolis and Cleveland to Bangor, Maine, with an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 24 inches.

“Enough snow could fall to make for difficult travel on not just secondary roadways, but also highways such as portions of Interstates 70, 80, 81, 87 and 90,” said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dan Pydynowski.

Over a large part of the mid-Atlantic and New England regions especially near the coast, only a shallow layer of cold air may be in place. That means that a period of sleet and freezing rain is more likely, instead of just rain or snow.

A change to plain rain is most likely along much of the I-95 corridor, but precipitation is likely to start out as a period of ice at the onset in the mid-Atlantic and across southern New England.

Major cities like Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and Boston could all see some ice.

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