New Bedford Guide Your Guide to New Bedford and South Coast, MA
Got your bread and milk so you can survive on French Toast during a prolonged power outage? A looming winter storm is heading for the SouthCoast and expected to arrive on Wednesday night and carry into Thursday.
“It looks like it could be a big storm, the type of storm that could easily bring a foot or more to the northeast corridor,” National Weather Service meteorologist Glenn Field said.
As of Tuesday morning afternoon, the storm track is not completely clear and it is this unpredictability that has meteorologists waffling over the specifics on the scale of the impact to the region. Depending on which meteorologist you follow you may hear a prediction anywhere between 3-4″ to as much as 18″.
One path which places the storm on land right over us would impact a wider area, most of southern New England. However, if the storm decides to move offshore, we’re in trouble, or at least our lower backs are if you don’t own a snowblower: the SouthCoast would take the brunt of snowfall accumulations on the higher range.
The “happy” medium would dump 6-8″ of snow on us, something more likely to happen. While the snow is expected to be the “fluffy” kind which translates to being a smaller power line threat, the strong winds which may reach up to 45mph may cause power outages.
Regardless, the snow accumulations, whatever they may amount to, are only part of the story. Along with the snow, we can expect coastal flooding and seas of 12-18′ particularly on Thursday afternoon during high tide. It goes without saying, the commute will be a nasty, hazardous one.
National Weather Service photo.
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