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A nor’easter could slam the entire East Coast this weekend putting a damper on travel from Georgia to Maine, bringing coastal rain and interior snow; plus, more of today’s weather news and forecast.
A storm is expected to gather strength in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday and move northward through the weekend, impacting a large swath of the Eastern United States.
Forecasters are calling for coastal rain with the risk of flooding, as well as interior snow. The storm is also anticipated to create travel delays which may put a damper in the Super Bowl weekend and/or Groundhog’s Day for some people.
The storm is expected to impact states as far south as Alabama and Georgia, as well as the northeastern tip of Florida, and span the Eastern US northward all the way to Maine.
To the interior, the width of the storm is expected to extend as far west as Indiana, as well as to central Tennessee and most of Kentucky.
Forecasters say it’s a bit too early to get an accurate estimate of snow accumulation amounts, but suffice to say that interior snow is likely.
On Tuesday, a powerful magnitude 7.7 struck in the Caribbean, south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica, according to the US geological survey.
The quake led to temporary evacuations in Miami due to shaking, and a tsunami threat had been issued, but the danger has now passed. Miami police said the shaking was strong enough that some buildings were evacuated.
The strength of the quake and waves of up to 3 feet prompted the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center to issue a tsunami threat for Belize, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, the Cayman Islands, and Jamaica, but later said that the danger had passed.
Northwest & Northern Rockies: Seattle 50/rain, Portland 51/rain, Boise 42/mostly cloudy, Billings 49/partly cloudy, Bismarck 29/windy, Rapid City 44/cloudy.
West: San Francisco 59/partly cloudy, Los Angeles 75/sunny, Reno 50/partly cloudy, Las Vegas 65/windy, Salt Lake City 38/snow, Denver 46/cloudy.
Southwest: Phoenix 67/cloudy, Albuquerque 48/mostly cloudy, El Paso 65/mostly sunny, San Antonio 65/sunny.
Central: Kansas City 34/snow, Oklahoma City 43/partly cloudy, Dallas 51/partly cloudy, Houston 56/partly cloudy, New Orleans 61/cloudy, Memphis 58/rain.
Upper Midwest: Minneapolis 25/partly cloudy, Detroit 33/cloudy.
Ohio Valley: St. Louis 35/snow, Chicago 33/cloudy, Cincinnati 39/cloudy.
South: Charlotte 52/mostly cloudy, Atlanta 53/cloudy, Jacksonville 65/rain, Tampa 73/rain, Miami 80/mostly sunny.
East: Norfolk 47/mostly cloudy, Washington 45/partly cloudy, Buffalo 29/partly cloudy, New York 42/partly cloudy, Boston 39/partly cloudy, Bangor 12/sunny.
