Major East Coast Storm Brewing For March 6th & 7th

People and officials in coastal areas may want to review emergency procedures for the chance that the storm overachieves, as we have suggested it could, and makes the northward turn up the coast.

HERE East Coast

Once the storm reaches the Atlantic coast Wednesday into Thursday (March 6-7), conditions at most levels in the nearby atmosphere and well away from the storm throughout North America could lead to rapid development near the coast. At this point, the storm could become a dangerous system for parts of the mid-Atlantic, leading to significant travel disruptions and severe coastal flooding from the Outer Banks to Atlantic City, N.J.

According to Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams, “There may be similarities to a storm which affected much of the same area around March 6, 1962.“

Moisture will begin to feed into the storm from the Gulf of Mexico, and we are likely to start to see heavier precipitation in the form of snow over the Ohio Valley states and snow, rain and thunderstorms to parts of the South and the mid-Atlantic. (States likely to be most involved at this point include Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia).

More strom update HERE