Potential Storm Brewing for Sunday and Monday

A round of rain will swing by western New York State on Saturday with a cold front moving through the area; then a heavy drenching rain is on tap for Sunday night into Monday night for the Northeastern United States with the potential for heavy wet snow for western New York State down to western Pennsylvania and West Virginia especially for the higher elevations. A storm system will move up the coast and is expected to wind up off shore ushering in cold air behind it. Heavy rain is expected over much of the region on the order of 1 to 3 inches or better especially along the Atlantic coast including the big cities from D.C. to Boston, then away from the coast this rain could mix with and change over to wet snow for some interior portions of the Northeast. Given the anticipated high precipitation rates, if the air is just marginally cold enough some regions could pick up a significant amount of snow for this time of the year - most likely over the higher terrain of western New York, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia - while other areas in this highlighted region could pick a few inches of wet snow accumulation at the lower elevations from Buffalo, NY to the Finger Lakes region.