Double-header of storms bringing wintry weather to the East Coast

Saturday and Sunday will strike a large swath of the East Coast with rain, ice and snow as two different systems cause serious problems.

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00:00This is your mild day enjoy it and we're still holding on to 66 in Houston but

00:04we're getting ready for trouble and there are two storms that will soon

00:06impact us across the east. The first of which is bringing the rain from southern

00:11Missouri through Arkansas into Louisiana and Mississippi. That's moving through

00:15these areas that will be leading to an increasing amount of rain for the

00:19southeast. Storm system number one's greatest impact will be in the form of

00:23rain in the south and there will be some snow in the far interior northeast

00:27associated with this first wave but overall its most significant impact

00:32beyond the one to three inches in some of these blue zones is that it will

00:36deliver colder air. So behind this again a cold front fires on through and then

00:42that sets the table for wave number two. The trailing wave to become our second

00:47storm system. So there's Saturday morning showers through Saturday afternoon at

00:50times for the northeast but here comes wave number two that develops right over

00:54our heads. Snow is going to be intensifying for many areas here along

00:59I-95. We're forecasting three to six inches of snow in Baltimore tied to this

01:03and again widespread snow coming up the coast. Now it is going to be a forecast

01:08that has a lot of tight transitions from one side of the storm to the other. For

01:13example in areas like Philadelphia Center City we're forecasting one to

01:16three inches of snow but there could be widespread three to sixes just barely

01:20northwest and all the way up into areas like New York City we're forecasting two

01:23to four inches of snow in New York City proper. Again Philadelphia one to three

01:28for Center City but barely north of there and west of there you're going to

01:31climb quite a bit higher. There's the footprint of snow for Sunday and overall

01:35as this pivots through the area we're going to see that snow pick up at

01:38Lincoln Financial Field there. The turf is heated there so we'll have to see how it

01:42accumulates.