Big Storm on Track First things first...we made it into the warm air Today, but the chilly stuff is moving South again Tonight. The final wave will ride along this front to our South on Thursday. It might be cold enough for a little freezing rain or sleet on Thursday in some spots...it should be mostly rain for the metro areas. This could be a bad ice and snow event in Central PA...if you are traveling.

Now...the weekend storm. Most of the models have come into fairly good agreement...which is unusual this far out....this is the way I see it right now: A storm system will move out of the Southern Plains on Saturday. It will track across the Gulf Coast then up the spine of the Appalachians....the wild card here is that it might pick up some moisture and energy from the tropical system down there (Olga)...if it does that, then this could turn into a MAJOR winter storm here in the East. All of the models bring that first low up into West NC then it fades out and transfers its energy to a new coastal storm near Virginia Beach by early Sunday Morning. That storm then explodes and rides up the coast into Maine by Monday Morning. It is still too early to say what kind of precip we will see here at home or even when it would start. Around the I-95 megalopolis, there could be anything from pure snow to sleet or even plain old rain. One thing is for sure...if this storm grabs that tropical feed, there will be a lot of precipitation...what ever it may be at your house. We'll be ironing out the details over the next few days...stay tuned!

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