Kentucky road crews worked to clear snow-covered roads for the first winter storm of 2025 with snow, ice, sleet and freezing rain hitting the region this past month. This weekend, it is residents in the Midwest and Northeast who are bracing for winter weather with heavy snowfall that could affect driving conditions. File Photo by John Sommers II/UPI |
License PhotoFeb. 7 (UPI) — Residents in the Midwest and Northeast residents are bracing for another winter storm with heavy snowfall.
And another system of severe weather is expected to pummel portions of the nation Monday into Wednesday of next week. CNN is counting five storms from the jet stream over a few weeks will slam the eastern half of the United States, including one with snow, sleet and freezing rain across the mid-Atlantic and New England on Wednesday night and Thursday.
“While a similar storm track is expected with the weekend storm, there will be more cold air available ahead of the system compared to the last event. This will result in a larger area of significant snow,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Bill Deger said.
The storm will move from Minneapolis to Massachusetts with 42 million people under winter alerts.
This storm that originated over the Pacific Ocean has tracked through the Great Basin and is transitioning across the Rockies to the central High Plains into early Saturday morning, the National Weather Service said.
This storm is forecast to create more snow than the system that swept across the Northeast on Thursday.
In Minnesota and Wisconsin, up to 8 inches of snow and blustery weather is forecast.
Snow and freezing rain will then strike the Ohio Valley and Northeast on Saturday.
The Interstate 95 corridor from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia will be spared from significant snow and ice, Accuweather.com said.
The heaviest snow will fall late Saturday night into early Sunday morning in New York and Boston.
There is a strong chance of 4 to 8 inches of snow in the Northeast thought in New England some places could see up to 1 foot of snow, ABC News reported.
This year’s storms are bucking a pattern the past two years.
Normally Boston gets about 3 feet of snow each winter but in the past two years only 2 feet combined hit the region.
Less than 10 inches of snow hit New York City. in the past two winters.
