Thursday, April 11, 2013

Winter Storm Walda: Snow and Ice Continue

Jon Erdman,Nick Wiltgen Published: Apr 11, 2013, 2:21 PM EDT weather.com

Tracking April Snow

Like so many mid-winter storms this year, but unlike most April storms, Winter Storm Walda is turning out to be a long-lived snow and ice storm. Let's lay out the latest forecast for Walda:
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New England Snow Forecast

North-Central Snow Forecast

Friday's Rain/Snow

Thursday night into Friday: The main batch of precipitation from Walda will move east across the Northeast. With a cold Arctic high-pressure zone to the north still supplying some cold air, wintry precipitation including snow can be expected across parts of northern New England.
At this time, it appears that the bulk of the accumulating snow will be confined to northern two-thirds of Maine, but some accumulations may graze the Green and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire as well.
Accumulating ice will be a potential concern in this period from the Adirondacks and Catskills of New York into the Berkshires of western Massachusetts.
Meanwhile, there will still be lingering snow falling across parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan on the back side of Walda's circulation.
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This same energetic system associated with Walda brought high winds and blowing dust across the Desert Southwest on Monday, and wind damage and power outages in northern Utah Monday night.
Early Tuesday morning, heavy freezing rain and thunder brought down tree limbs and coated cars in ice in Sioux Falls, S.D. At one point, 35,000 customers were without power in this city of 150,000 residents.
Tuesday afternoon brought the bizarre combination of freezing rain, snow, large hail and lightning to parts of central and northeast Nebraska where severe thunderstorm warnings were issued in areas experiencing temperatures as low as 18 degrees.
And Wednesday morning brought freezing rain as far south as Abilene, Texas, an extraordinary southerly reach for icy precipitation in mid-April.
Snow fell in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area on Thursday. The airport measured up to 3 inches from the storm as of late morning. Nearly a foot of snow piled up in the southwest Minnesota town of Redwood Falls.

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