More Rain Slated to Dampen Northeast Thursday

By Bill Deger, Meteorologist

Apr 25, 2012; 6:20 AM ET

In the wake of a major early week storm that quenched river and reservoir needs for water in the Northeast, another system is slated to bring more rain to the region come Thursday.
Fortunately, a repeat of the damaging heavy, wet snow that fell over the Appalachians is not expected thanks to a surge of milder air.
The center of the storm will track from the northern Plains today to the Ohio Valley tonight, triggering some severe thunderstorms along the way.
Late tonight, the threat for gusty storms will wane as the storm transitions into more of a rainmaker from the Ohio Valley through the mid-Atlantic into Thursday.
Many areas from northern Kentucky and southern Ohio east through the Delmarva stand to have another 0.50 to 1.5 inches of rain, which will fall in frequent batches with some thunder rather than continuously like the region experienced on Sunday.
Depending on the track of the storm, the big cities along I-95 from Washington to Boston could be in for similar rainfall amounts as well.

A piece of atmospheric energy swinging into the storm as it begins to pull away will enhance the rain farther north over upstate New York and New England into Thursday night, with up to an inch possible here too.
Enough cold air filtering in behind the storm could change the rain over to snow for a time in the higher elevations from the Adirondacks to the mountains of Maine early on Friday.
The cooler air will not just be limited to New England to end the workweek. Temperatures that will have risen into the 60s by Thursday over the rest of the Northeast will be knocked back into the 50s on Friday, along with a gusty wind that will make it feel even colder.
The unsettled pattern looks to continue into the first half of the weekend, as another storm could deliver more showers to the mid-Atlantic for Saturday.

More Rain Slated to Dampen Northeast Thursday