With an explosively intensifying low-pressure system heading into the Canadian Maritimes, northwest winds are becoming strong and gusty across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. The winds will continue across the region Saturday and across New England a final day on Sunday. On Saturday, gusts will be in the 40-to-50-mph range over eastern New York and the 40-to-60-mph range across New England. Some tree damage and power outages are possible.

On Saturday, heavy lake-effect snow will continue for northwest Pennsylvania and parts of Upstate New York with snow totals locally in the 1-to-2-foot range by evening.

By Sunday, the lake effect snow will decrease, but a new winter storm will move into the southern Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. This system will spread a light wintry mix into the southern Mid-Atlantic.

On Monday, rain will douse southeast Virginia while flurries linger from the Appalachians westward.


A developing winter storm is quickly impacting parts of Texas with snow for the far west-central counties and the panhandle, sleet and freezing rain from the Davis Mountains to Lubbock to Childress and rain over the remainder of the state.

As the storm evolves Saturday, heavy snow and sleet will accumulate over 6 inches in parts of far west Texas and western Oklahoma. Sleet and freezing rain will extend from parts of western Texas northward across a diagonal slice of Oklahoma from the southwest to northeast corners including Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Also wintry mix will develop over northern Arkansas.

Steady locally inch-plus rain will develop through central and east Texas and southeast Oklahoma, moving across the Lower Mississippi River Valley into Saturday night.

On Sunday, the storm will rapidly shift eastward with rain moving through the Tennessee Valley and northern Gulf Coast States. By Sunday night and early Monday as the rain enters the Southeast, the western Carolinas could see some sleet and freezing rain.

On Monday, a corridor of heavy inch-plus rain may stall for a time from the eastern Carolinas to southern Louisiana. A new storm in the Southwest will bring a burst of accumulating snow to southwest Texas.