Rain and snow return to the Northeast from mid- to late week

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Will the latest round of wintry weather bring snow to your town? AccuWeather's Geoff Cornish breaks down the forecast.

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00:00Heavy snow squalls at Winter Place Ski Resort in West Virginia yesterday.

00:04Take a look at this.

00:06AccuWeather meteorologist Chad Merrill in Flat Top West Virginia.

00:09Nasty stuff, big flakes, low visibility.

00:11This is pretty exciting stuff.

00:13Chad's a big-time weather enthusiast and AccuWeather meteorologist.

00:17He knows his stuff.

00:17He spent a lot of time in West Virginia, and I have to expect this was a pretty exciting time there for him.

00:23As, you know, if you're a meteorologist and you're out skiing and then this kind of thing happens,

00:27you certainly sit up and take notice.

00:29Overall, Wednesday, we're going to be dealing with mild air there at Flat Top

00:33and even some rain showers through parts of West Virginia.

00:3744 in Pittsburgh, a rain-snow mix.

00:39Rain into Buffalo, snow showers in Detroit, but to the east until this front really sets in.

00:45We're in transition to this, so we've got milder air with rain to the east,

00:50and we're going to be holding on to this milder air for one more day, one and a half more days.

00:54Radar and clouds now certainly showing a few rain showers breaking out.

00:59In parts of southern, far southern Ontario, we've got snow to the north, but a rain-snow mix is in progress.

01:05Very light, northwest Pennsylvania, western New York state.

01:08The true front's still off to the west, but as we take you forward with future radar and clouds,

01:13you can see that it's going to be a system that comes through a weak disturbance that precedes the true front.

01:19And then Wednesday, here comes the actual cold front firing on in.

01:23We've got rain in advance of it, colder air with snow showers behind it,

01:27and once the winds really reorient themselves, we're going to begin to see some more lake-effect snow,

01:32and eventually the winds will kind of conform more to these arrows I'm drawing.

01:36And here you can see it's a little bit more oriented that way.

01:38By Thursday morning, some of this snow will be seeded by Lake Huron, boosted by Lake Erie,

01:46or the Georgian Bay plus Lake Ontario.

01:48That will help to produce more of these lake-effect snow bands,

01:51and then just the generic snow will fall across the New England states.

01:54Most of this will not really survive down to I-95 once we get to Thursday afternoon.

02:00But there's a window of time in New York City or Philadelphia Wednesday night

02:04when rain will mix with and change to a little bit of snow.

02:06We're expecting less than an inch, just a small fraction of an inch in some of these areas.

02:11Thursday, a rain-snow mix in New York City.

02:13We're drying out in Philadelphia.

02:14To get to a full inch of snow, you probably need to be up into areas around the Poconos

02:18or near or west of I-99 in west-central Pennsylvania.

02:22And then we have three-plus inches here in the second shade of blue,

02:25and then six-plus into areas of the third shade of blue near and east of Watertown, New York.

02:31And then Friday, some more snow and snow showers in the far interior near the Great Lakes,

02:36and that will linger through Friday evening with another one to three inches for some

02:39and three to six inches for others.

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