A New Year’s blizzard will unfold in northern New England and southern Atlantic Canada later today into early Sunday. Widespread lake-effect snow showers, fierce winds and severe cold are spreading all the way to the Northeast coast and down the spine of the of the Appalachians.
The worst of the storm will rage from northern New York and southern Quebec to Maine and New Brunswick.
The hardest hit communities will endure several hours of heavy, windblown snow. Severe drifting of snow will occur, keeping roads clogged even well after the heavy snow tapers off.
People who live in northern parts of Vermont and New Hampshire, Maine and southern parts of Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia will be digging out from a foot to a foot and a half of snow. A few locations in this zone will have 2 feet of snow!
Travel will be nearly impossible in this area this weekend with snow-packed roadways and white-out conditions.
Parts of the Boston area have already received 6 inches of snow. Up to an additional 6 inches will accumulate and disrupt travel through Sunday.
The rest of the Midwest and Northeast will escape the blizzard, but will have to endure frigid temperatures, wind gusts between 40 and 60 mph, bands of heavy lake-effect snow and sudden snow showers that quickly make roads slippery.
Hundreds of flight delays and cancellations are likely in the Midwest and the Northeast.
The winds will be strong enough this weekend to down tree limbs and cut power to some areas in New England, the mid-Atlantic and Nova Scotia.
Although not as strong as this weekend, gusty winds will continue to contribute to cold AccuWeather.com RealFeel® temperatures through the first half of the week.
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