Name: Early winter weather brings snow and cold to Midwest and Northeast
Uploaded: 2025-11-05T07:59:58.345Z
Duration: 6 min 27 s
Description: A series of cold fronts will bring early-season snow and strong winds to parts of the Midwest and Northeast, with high-elevation areas expecting the most accumulation. Forecasts indicate potential for accumulating snow from New England to the Ohio Valley, along with gusty winds in major cities.

A series of cold fronts will bring early-season snow and strong winds to parts of the Midwest and Northeast, with high-elevation areas expecting the most accumulation. Forecasts indicate potential for accumulating snow from New England to the Ohio Valley, along with gusty winds in major cities.

Forecasts indicate that winter weather is set to impact the north-central and northeastern United States, with several cold fronts bringing early-season snow and strong winds. High-elevation areas in New England, such as Jay, Vermont and Wilmington, New York, are expected to receive one to three inches of snow, while gusts of up to 60 mph are possible in cities including Albany, Boston, and Buffalo.

Computer models show that rain will transition to snow in mountainous regions as freezing levels drop, and by Monday, cold air will reach sea level in the Ohio Valley, increasing the chance for snow if precipitation occurs. Additional snow is possible over the weekend in South Dakota, Iowa, and interior regions, with lake effect snow also possible near Lake Michigan.

Early winter weather brings snow and cold to Midwest and Northeast

In tonight's forecast feed, we are jumping in on winter mode across much of the north-central and northeastern U.S., at least sniffing out opportunities for snow. For some, we're going to be dealing with a little bit of high-elevation snow in New England, but also, as we step into the second half of the weekend and Sunday into Monday, there are areas in the Midwest, even in lower elevations, where we might see a little bit of early-season snow. Some of the things to look forward to here if you like this kind of thing, and as we look at the first storm system here, a quick-moving storm for Wednesday, this is going to be another cold front, and it'll, in some cases and some ways, resemble what we had on Halloween into the first of the month, Friday into Saturday, with, we did see some accumulating snow. You've maybe seen some of the footage on AccuWeather.com and on, perhaps, the AccuWeather app, some of the video, we've been showing it on the AccuWeather network as well, of some wintry landscapes with parts of the Adirondacks covered in snow in the high ground, at least an inch or two. Now, in Jay, Vermont, we're looking at the potential for a one-to-three-inch snow event here on Wednesday afternoon, evening, and into early Thursday morning. We'll look at the computer models here to give you a little more context in a moment, but you can see, actually, there is, between the one-to-three and the three-to-six, we're forecasting about a 78% chance that we see an inch-plus between these two different bounds, plus the small, small chance we exceed a six-inch event there in Jay, Vermont. Let's go into Wilmington, New York, and this is where we did see some accumulating snow over the weekend as well, and here we have a slightly more modest but similar forecast with most likely one-to-three inches of snow here, and if you look at the one-to-three plus three-to-six, plus six-plus inches between the three of them, actually, it is a slightly more robust chance, it'd be, what, a 77% chance there that we exceed an inch of snow in Wilmington, New York. Now, it's going to be windy as well, and as this front kicks through, the winds are going to really reorient themselves, it's going to be a blustery cold wind here blowing, so as we draw these wind streamlines behind the front, we're going to see gusts of 50 to 60 miles per hour in Albany, Boston, Portland, Burlington, even Buffalo, maybe even New York City there, with some strong winds. We want to take you out into some computer models here, and as we take a look at one example here, we can see the GFS model, here's this trough for this first front on Wednesday night into Thursday morning, and you can see a pretty pronounced dip in the jet stream here, it's a fairly sharp one, and there is a slightly negative tilt here, I'm connecting the dots between the lowest point of the trough there, it's going to become a big blast of chilly air that rolls in, but most of the moisture will precede the actual cold air, so a lot of this is going to fall as rain, ending as a little bit of snow in the mountains. Now this product here shows us the freezing level, how many feet above sea level in thousands do you have to travel before you get into freezing air, and you need to go, for say the Poconos, 8,000 feet up on Wednesday morning to get to 8,000 feet above sea level to get to the freezing level, well our mountains there are around 2,000 feet in most cases, maybe 22, 2400 feet, so again it's rain there in the Poconos, but on the backside of this storm Wednesday night, you can see some of those bright yellows, and that's where you get down to 2,000 to 3,000 feet for the elevations at which you're going to begin to see some snow, and they bottom out even lower than that Thursday morning, so with any residual moisture, we're going to see some snow out there, but take a look at what goes on when we go way out into the weekend, behind this next front, we're going to see some pretty nippy air Monday morning, if you're down in that teal color, then you have freezing weather all the way down to sea level, so basically all areas in the Ohio Valley will be cold enough for snow on Monday morning if there's any precipitation around, so here we have the model depiction, a few of them, rain ending as some snow, now that deep blue, some of this is color coded with the temperature at the end of a six hour window, and some of the precipitation that falls in that six hour bin will actually come down as rain, ending as snow, so we're not going to see a widespread thump of snow, but you get the idea that we're going to see rain ending as a little bit of snow here in most areas here across the high elevations of the Northeast Wednesday night, Thursday morning, let's take it to the next front, Friday night, rain, and we'll have some chilly air behind that, but behind that front there's another front for Sunday, this one has more limited moisture, but it actually has more cold air in place, and in this case we're going to see a little rain change over to some snow in more areas, here's another depiction of that, you can see this probably more accurately characterizes the amount and type of precipitation, and again, Sunday morning there's some rain there in Cleveland, Ohio, ending with some rain, ending as a little bit of snow there in some areas, but by Monday morning, the front will be through, and any residual moisture that falls could bring us a little bit of snow, including all the way down into the spine of the Southern Appalachians, and even into areas maybe near Louisville, Kentucky, or parts of Ohio, you'll see a little bit of snow out there, and perhaps a little bit of lake enhanced or lake effect snow in some areas where the flow aligns over some longer fetches of Lake Michigan. Now, as we look at the GFS model, just one example of snowfall, you can see the first round Wednesday night, Thursday morning, you can see some, well Mount Washington might see seven inches of snow, that might actually happen there, but 0.7 out near Burlington, Vermont, that's feasible. And then we take a look forward in time here, into the next one, not much moisture behind the front on Friday night, but we're a little more interested in this next round, look at this, Saturday night to Sunday morning, here's a stripe of some accumulating snow in South Dakota, into western and northern Iowa, maybe a little bit of snow, we're a little skeptical that it actually falls that far south in an accumulating fashion, but you can see more of the interior with perhaps your first dusting to a fraction of an inch of snow, Sunday night to Monday, so it's almost that time, and we can close out with a quick look at our summary graphic, snow potential, Saturday night, Sunday, and Monday.

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