A Potential Nor'easter Could Hit the East Coast on Super Bowl Weekend
A big storm could be headed to the East Coast during Super Bowl weekend (which is also Groundhog's Day weekend, if you're keeping track). If the storm hovers on the coast, it would generate gusty winds and heavy precipitation—and possibly become a powerful nor’easter.
According to AccuWeather, the potentially disruptive storm is tracking within a couple hundred miles of the Atlantic Coast. It will develop either over the Gulf of Mexico or the Southeast corner of the U.S. on Friday. Then, it’ll move northeastward, where it’ll either hit the Northeast coast or swing a wide right on Saturday, following a harmless path out to sea.
Another storm along the border of Canada and U.S. will occur around the same time. How they interact will determine the southern storm’s path. "If the two storms join quickly, then the southern storm will rapidly strengthen along the mid-Atlantic and New England coasts and precipitation could expand inland from the Interstate 95 corridor to the I-77 and I-81 corridors," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dave Dombek said on Tuesday.
Dombek added that even if the storm tracks near the coast, the temperatures are such that it’s unlikely it’ll snow in the mid-Atlantic region. More likely, it would rain from coastal Georgia all the way up to the coast to southern New Jersey. It would also rain in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. In New York City and Philadelphia, there would there be rain and potentially wet snow. If the storm tracks near the coast, then there would be more snow than rain in New England.
So maybe don't put your Super Bowl plans on hold just yet.
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