Winter Weather Summary January 15,

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Winter Weather Summary
POSTED: January 15, 2004 7:26 a.m.

Brutal cold engulfs the Northeast

The northeastern United States will be windy and bitterly cold Thursday. Strong northwest winds will gust to 30-40 mph across New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine Thursday and Thursday night. This will result in dangerously low wind chills as the air temperatures will range from the teens across Pennsylvania and New Jersey to the single digits across southern New England and below zero near the Canadian border during the day. Temperatures will drop below zero all across New England and down into the single digits across Pennsylvania and New Jersey at night. In addition, where recent snow has fallen, the snow will blow and drift.

The Alberta Clipper that swept across the Northeast last night will move away from the East Coast Thursday. Before it goes it will put down a little additional snow in New England. New snowfall in southern Connecticut, southeastern New York (including NYC and Long Island), northeastern New Jersey, Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts Thursday will accumulate 1-3 inches.

In the cold air across the Northeast, snow will linger near the Great Lakes and in the mountains. Snow near the Great Lakes in northeastern Ohio, northwestern Indiana, northwestern Pennsylvania, western New York, southwestern and northwestern lower Michigan and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan will also accumulate a fresh 1-3 inches Thursday. Snow in the mountains of Vermont, New Hampshire and northwestern Maine will accumulate 1-3 inches Thursday. Snow in the mountains of south-central Pennsylvania, western Maryland and eastern West Virginia will accumulate 1-3 inches Thursday.

In the West, the moisture from a storm system in Texas will back into the southern Rockies resulting in snow in the higher elevations of the Four Corners. Snow in the mountains of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado will accumulate 1-3 inches.