Northeast preps as 1st significant winter storm approaches
HARTFORD— A fast-moving coastal storm is forecast to blast several major cities in the Northeast with a mix of snow, sleet and rain on Saturday in the season’s first real taste of winter along the busy Interstate 95 corridor.
The biggest snowfall amounts are expected in southern New England, but forecasters warned that temperatures hovering near freezing could make for slippery driving conditions across the region.
“It’s kind of the first one, so it’s a good thing it’s happening this weekend,” National Weather Service meteorologist Bill Simpson in Taunton, Massachusetts, said Friday. “If this happened during a weekday, it could be really slow and messy.”