First alarm weather: winter storm moves today and brings snow, ice, rain and wind

Rochester, new we have traced an effective winter storm all week and it is finally coming today. This is a very finnicky system; The exact track that the center of the storm will take will largely decide how much snow we get and. Widespread snow arrives later this morning and continues in the evening before switching to gossip/ice/rain from south to north. Snow collections can be handled today, 2-4 ″.

Over night, the extent of the area that sees ice/rain could vary from all over western New York to just finger lakes depending on how the north or south of the storm is going. Even a difference between a few miles is enough to change things … Although the latest model guide suggests a more northern track, which means less snow and more rain/mix. Either way, this will continue through Sunday until Sunday night, when Northwest Flow takes over and accumulates snow returns. Temperatures fall, which means that areas where the salt is washed away by rain risks getting icy and smooth. No major ice collections are expected, but it is enough (as well as the accumulating snow that will fall over it) to cause concern. If you need to be on the road tonight to Sunday, be careful to be careful.