PHILADELPHIA — Just when flowering bulbs were poking out their heads and snow shovels were getting a well-deserved rest, winter weather has come back. And on the first day of spring, no less.
Forecasters say a storm will dump up to 6 inches of snow on the Northeast and mid-Atlantic on Friday. New England will be on the lower end of the snow totals but even Boston, which has seen a record 108.6 inches of snow, could get an inch or two more.
A few locations, particularly in the higher elevations, could see much more of the white stuff, said meteorologist Bruce Terry of the National Weather Service. South-central Pennsylvania will be in the bull’s-eye of the storm and receive up to 10 inches of snow, he said on Thursday. Western Maryland could get slammed with up to 8 inches.
Terry said that of all the cities, New York will get hit the hardest. The Big Apple is expected to get 4 to 6 inches of wet snow.
Some areas also will see rain.
Temperatures will be in the low to mid-30s on Friday. “It’s just cold enough to snow,” Terry said.
By Saturday, it will be in the 40s in the Northeast and in the 50s in the mid-Atlantic, he said.
Meteorologist Ryan Maue of Weather Bell Analytics warned that spring might take a while to fully win out. Temperatures will remain unseasonably cool into next week, and another system with snow potential is headed for the Midwest, he said.