The latest snowfall forecast indicates 18-24 inches of snow from Albany to Boston today and Monday. 10-18 inches of snow extends from Ohio across Pennsylvania. Amounts are cut back Maryland and southward due to sleet and freezing rain. The core of major ice accretion stretches from Eastern Louisiana to Kentucky, the Southern Appalachians, and Raleigh to Richmond.

Winter Storm Warnings have reached the Atlantic Coast and extend westward across Texas and the Southern Great Plains. Ice Storm Warnings remain in effect from East Texas to Tennessee and Northern Georgia across the western half of South Carolina and Southwestern North Carolina.

By late Friday afternoon, Winter Storm Warnings expanded south to the Houston area and eastward to the Atlantic Seaboard. Initial focus zones for severe icing are East Texas, the northern 2/3 of Louisiana, southern Arkansas, and northern Mississippi plus northern Georgia and the western half of South Carolina.

The new concern is a larger exposure of significant ice accretion, especially northward through the Mid-Atlantic region to the south and southeast coast of New England. Already, widespread power loss and impossible travel due to a major ice accretion is forecast for the Mid-south U.S. plus the Carolinas. However, the ice accretion forecast trend leaves Virgina in a similar risk and Washington/Baltimore/Philadelphia could be added.