Winter Weather Summary March 15,

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Winter Weather Summary
POSTED: March 15, 2004 8:13 a.m.


A Major Winter Storm in the Midwest, Heading to the Northeast...


A developing storm over Kansas this morning will track across Missouri tonight and to central Kentucky by tomorrow morning. North of the storm track, there will be a corridor of heavy snow. Six to twelve inches of snow will fall in southern Iowa and into west central Illinois today. Surrounding this area, 3-6 inches seems likely for northeastern Nebraska, across central Iowa and into northern Illinois. An inch or so of wet snow will try to accumulate as far south as St. Louis and downstate Illinois later tonight as well. The snow will push eastward across Indiana and Ohio tonight into tomorrow. Three to six inches seems likely for northern and central Indiana and northern and central Ohio; a couple of inches can accumulate up into southern lower Michigan. Then tomorrow, it is the Northeast that will take the brunt of this strengthening storm. There will be 6-10 inches in northeastern Pennsylvania, up into the Catskills, and eventually into central New England; surrounding this area, there will be 3-6 inches. The southernmost extent of the accumulating snow tomorrow will be near the Mason-Dixon Line (Pennsylvania-Maryland border). On the southern fringe of the storm, there will be some mixed precipitation, holding down the snow amounts.

Out in the West, there will be 1-3 inches of new snow in the Bitterroots and in the mountains of western Montana and northwest Wyoming.