Mixing of snow, ice and rain – NBC New York

The final of our series of East Coast Storms is on its way this weekend. And it can be the one with the greatest influence. We track a mixture of snow, ice and rain that creates a winter Saturday and Slurned Sunday.

If you need to run errands this weekend, get them done early on Saturday. Saturday morning is the only time this weekend that will be dry, with roads effortless by ice or slush.

Things go downhill from Saturday afternoon. Precipitation begins to push into the region around lunchtime. And it will be cold enough at the beginning to support the snow area. Temperatures will slowly rise through the day and in the evening, and the snow switches to a winter mixture and eventually all rain.

South Jersey will be the first to switch to all rain, generally after early evening. For the city, we hold onto the snow through dinner before we quickly switch to rain late Saturday night.

Hudson Valley gets snow until about midnight. Then the snow transcends to rain, but it will pretty much freeze rain. These are rain that falls like fluid but immediately freezes by contact and turns surfaces to an ice sheet. It will also form a hard, icy shell around the snow on the ground; It won’t be a fun to dig out when this event is over.

Generally, the rapid transition to rain associated with relatively milder temperatures will give more diminished snow totals down Jersey Shore; Expect less than an inch. Across the rest of the area, most of the United States can look forward to another 1 to 3 inches of snow. But in the higher heights, especially up in poconos and catskills, accumulations will trend higher, more in the order of 3 to 5 inches.

Throughout the day on Sunday, most of us have to do with the continued rainfall. This will make much of the previous day’s snow to slush, leaving sidewalks and weighing smooth and slurry. If you plan to go outside, rain or snow boots will be important. In the evening, showers finally begin to tip as our storm system moves off the coast.

Overall it all up, the rain, the snow and the ice will account for approx. 1 to 2 inches liquid equivalent rainfall, with about half an inch on an inch of the one falling like rain.