Flood Watch
The National Weather Service in Gray Maine has issued a flood watch and a winter weather advisory for Belknap County, and a winter weather advisory for southern Carroll County.
The winter weather advisory is for ice accumulations of .25" to .5" and the flood watch is for the possibility of 3 inches of rain falling on top of the existing snowpack. At this point they are only expecting small river and stream flooding, as the larger rivers still have a few more feet to rise before they'll overflow.
The storm is becoming quite noteworthy throughout the eastern half of the nation. Blizzard warnings are now in effect for a large portion of Ohio. Winter storm warnings and snow advisories extend from western New York State southward to all but southernmost portions of Alabama and Mississippi, and the northeast corner of Louisiana. Snow is currently falling in northernmost Mississippi and is expected to expand in coverage.
We are expected to receive the rainy eastern side of the storm as it tracks very close to the northwest of here. A shift in the storm track to the southeast by just 100 or 200 miles (very small, in the grand scheme of things) would result in our receiving several inches of snow. Otherwise, if the current forecast track verifies, we will receive a fair amount of icing and some very heavy rain.
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