The Lehigh Valley is facing the potential for two rounds of snow in coming days, following a bone-chilling start to the weekend, the National Weather Service said.
Neither of the snow forecasts looks to be a major event, in terms of accumulation, but travel could be affected, the weather service said.
First, the cold: Lehigh Valley International Airport is forecast to see a low of 15 degrees overnight Friday into Saturday, when the daytime high rises to 32 under sunny skies. The low Saturday night into Sunday is 20 at the airport, followed by a daytime high of 38 — the exact normal low and high temperatures for the date.
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A slight chance, about 20 percent, of snow showers arrives before 1 p.m. Sunday for the Lehigh Valley, mixing with rain after 2 p.m. The chance for rain showers continues until about 8 p.m., or around half-time during the Super Bowl.
“On Sunday, when the precipitation comes in during day, we’re going to be above freezing,” weather service meteorologist Lance Franck said Friday from the Philadelphia region forecast office in Mount Holly, New Jersey. “That’ll favor a wet snow and that may, in fact, have a hard time sticking.”
Franck said he couldn’t rule out “some slippery spots across the higher terrain.”
AccuWeather.com shows next week’s precipitation affecting a wide swath of the Northeast. (Courtesy image | For lehighvalleylive.com)
“Moving into next week, at this point it looks like Monday night we do bring some mixed precipitation into the region,” he said Friday. “Generally we’re expecting any mixed precipitation in the form of snow, sleet or perhaps even some freezing rain to change over to rain.
“But again, the precipitation amounts at this point look pretty light.”
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The storm arriving Monday night is what Franck called an “inside runner,” meaning it’s projected to pass by the region to the west of the Appalachian Mountains, as opposed to a nor’easter to the east of the mountain chain. The forecast track cuts into the amount of precipitation that is expected, he said.
Precipitation is forecast to continue as rain into Tuesday, when temperatures are expected to crest in the mid-40s.
Franck noted that with the Monday night storm still several days away, the forecast is subject to change.
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