A late weekend nor'easter is in the forecast for the East Coast, but specific details on its location, strength, and precipitation type all remain uncertain as of Wednesday Feb. 18.
"An East Coast storm could develop as soon as Sunday [Feb. 22], but the track of this potential nor'easter isn't yet determined, leaving impacts such as snow, rain, wind and coastal flooding uncertain from New England to the mid-Atlantic states," said Weather.com meteorologist Jonathan Erdman in a Feb. 18 online forecast.
While a storm is still likely, its impacts are not a done deal yet: According to AccuWeather meteorologist Brandon Buckingham, "there are a lot of pieces to the puzzle that would have to come together at the right time for a major storm to unfold and bring heavy snow late this weekend to early next week."
As of the morning of Feb. 18, the National Weather Service, in an online forecast discussion, said that "going into the Sunday [Feb. 22] to Monday [Feb. 23] time period, there is still a strong signal for an intensifying low-pressure system off the Mid-Atlantic coast."
However, the weather service said that recent weather model guidance has trended a little bit more offshore compared to earlier models that had it closer to the coast near New England.
