Coming Winter Storm Euclid To Hit Ohio Valley and Northeast

A coming Winter storm called Storm Euclid has already dumped some 13 inches of snow in some locations in Arkansas.   Now the storm is heading into the Ohio Valley, Great Lakes, and Northeast.

The Weather Channel reports that the low pressure center of Winter Storm Euclid will shift from the Tennessee Valley to the East Coast Wednesday.  Drawing cold air on its northwest periphery and pumping moist air into that cold air, snow, heavy at times, will spread from the Ohio Valley into the Great Lakes, finally ending in Michigan and northern Ohio early Thursday morning.  Expect total snowfall in the 6-12 inch range from downstate Illinois through central Indiana and northern Ohio.  Lighter amounts are expected in southern Michigan, including the Detroit metro area.

A strong, non-thunderstorm winds will ride up the East Coast later Wednesday, and linger into Thursday as Euclid’s low pressure center strengthens and moves to the Gulf of Maine by Thursday.

Occasional wind gusts over 50 mph may down tree limbs and lead to at least sporadic power outages from the Mid-Atlantic states into New England.

Of course, all this will combine to produce significant flight delays on the busy day after Christmas, particularly in the major Northeast hubs of Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York through Wednesday evening.

On the wintry side, heavy snow will spread northward from West Virginia into interior sections of New York Wednesday.  Wednesday night, heavy snow will continue in much of New York state north of the Lower Hudson Valley and spread into northern New England, continuing in many of these areas through Thursday.