A quick hitting snow.
That is what is on the way for the East.
It's all happening tonight.
So this is a Clipper system.
It is set to drop out of Canada.
In fact, we're already tracking it on radar and it
will move across the Midwest to New England, bringing dozens
of states scenes like this.
Yes, this video is from Manchester, Vermont.
Beautiful.
I mean, it looks like a Christmas card, folks.
Alberta Clippers typically do not bring a ton of snow.
But there will be a little twist to this one
because of course we are going to have some lake
enhanced snow because all this cold air is going to
go over the Great Lakes.
That lake effect snow machine is going to go gearing
right back up.
It's going to be impressive to see some of these
totals off of Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, even moving across
Lake MI.
So here's what we're expecting again, Wednesday and Thursday are
big top days.
Of course, our lake effect areas are going to be
the hot spots.
That's where we'll have the for performers as well as
the mountains, the Green Mountains, the White Mountains moving up
into the higher terrain of Maine for the 95 corridor
right here.
It's probably going to be mainly rain, but Craig, I
do think that we'll see some wet snowflakes in Boston
and New York.
Is it measurable?
We'll see if it is measurable.
We're actually behind our average for snow in Boston.
We would be ahead of schedule for New York.
Both spots would not have anything substantial, but I'd be
fun to see.
I would be fun to see.
Right.
This should be Christmas time.
Exactly.
It all depends on where they originate in Canada and
that's where they get their name, Alberta Clippers.
They also originate with not a whole lot of moisture.
They come in off in very dry, very dry.
They come out of the Canadian Rockies.
Yeah.
So just think about that drier air mass.
They move a little bit faster as well like your
down skiing, but meantime in the process dropping some more
snow.
And here are your winter weather alerts.
Winter storm watches in place already for the UP of
Michigan riding through the northern Mitten as well.
And guess what, areas that have just been hummeled with
feet of snow, you get a little.
It's not the lake effect that we just saw, but
you will add more inches.
You're going to add to it.
Plus, a lot of these areas aren't even mobile yet.
It's true.
They haven't even gotten over the first round yet.
You worry about that.
Look how fast this moves and you see how it
moves over into portions of the Great Lakes.
Now you're looking at 5:00 PM on Wednesday, a lot
of that moisture comes on in.
Look at how much moisture is right along coastal New
England.
So close, so close.
But overall, the cold air is just a little too
far north.
Probably the best shot for New York and Boston, the
95 quarter for those wet snowflakes would most likely be
Thursday morning.
It's a timing thing.
Do we have the cold air there?
The moisture's there.
It's the cold air.
Now, as we take a look at what happens with
the winds, it is going to be windy.
That, of course, is a big contributor to the lake
effect snow.
But for folks across the Northeast, if you have rain,
it's going to be cold, windy rain.