00:00A powerful nor'easter will erupt off the North Carolina coast Sunday night.
00:05That's not debatable.
00:07What is debatable is the exact track.
00:10Why is it so tricky?
00:13Well, take a look at this.
00:15All of the circles on the map that you see will all play a part in not only forming this
00:23storm,
00:23but determining where it's going to go.
00:26And what's going to happen is all these pieces eventually carve out a big dip in the jet stream
00:32across the eastern part of the United States this weekend.
00:35What is that going to do?
00:36Well, number one, it's going to bring down an injection of cold air, not Arctic air,
00:41but cold air across the northeastern United States.
00:44And that dip in the jet stream will also allow that storm to intensify Sunday night off the North Carolina
00:53coast.
00:53Now, here's where it gets tricky.
00:54Where does the storm go?
00:56Does it go more to the northeast or does it hug the coast?
01:00We think it's kind of in between those two solutions.
01:04What makes it tricky is there's going to be very heavy precipitation on the backside of the storm.
01:10Now, for most in the northeast, we're going to see a couple, if not a few inches of snow,
01:16although in the Appalachians, you're going to get several inches of snow.
01:20We do think that the heaviest snow is likely going to be east of New York City, Philadelphia, and probably
01:27Washington, D.C.,
01:28but there's going to be accumulating snow there.
01:31This is the area that will have the potential for the heaviest amount of snow and the strongest winds from
01:40the Delmarva Peninsula toward eastern New Jersey,
01:44central and eastern Long Island, and right near the Boston area.
01:48This is where we could see well over six inches with strong winds blowing snow.
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