As we discussed yesterday, winds gusted up to 50 mph across the Northeast last night and early this morning. You can see some of the peak winds below from our stations across the region:
The Penn State Golf Course gusted to 50 mph, briefly knocking the power out as you can see in the time lapse below from Wednesday evening:
Another system will move across the Great Lakes into the Northeast on Friday, bringing more rain and increasing the wind to 30-40 mph yet again:
You may notice in these model images the time is displayed in Z time or UTC time. Here's a quick cheat sheet to determine what that time refers to:
On the southern side of that system, the storms could turn severe with the main threat being damaging winds and hail although an isolated tornado is also possible:
The threat will ramp up in the afternoon hours and linger into the overnight period but as you can see, the coverage isn't widespread and not everyone will see storms:
Yet another system will move through later this weekend, bringing more rain, wind, and even snow and ushering in the coldest air of the season. This system moves across the Eastern US starting Saturday afternoon and moves off the east coast by late Monday:
Snow totals across Michigan have backed off from the synoptic event but the combo of that and the lake effect will still cause some significant accumulations around the Great Lakes and even upslope flow snow on the Northwest facing sides of the Appalachian Mountains:
Want to see snow but don't live where it could fall? Here are some of our stations you can follow that may get snow:
Davison, MI
Medina, OH
Boone, NC
Glade Spring, VA
Finally, the story that will have most of the Eastern US talking will be the cold air forecast to plunge south early next week:
The good news is its a quick shot of cold air and everyone warms back up quickly. Take a look at the forecasts below for Cleveland, Nashville, and Orlando: