An icing threat will set up over New England on Sunday night as soaking rainsweeping northward along the Eastern Seaboard meets outgoing cold air.Rain, literally icy cold, will overspread much of eastern Vermont, NewHampshire and inland Maine. The onset of freezing rain will take place betweenlate Sunday evening and daybreak on Monday with icing continuing during the dayon Monday.
The effect of freezing rain will be glazing on exposed surfaces, be it roads,highways, trees and power lines. Well inland, at least, enough rain will falllong enough, at low enough temperature, to disrupt driving. Downing of treelimbs and power lines leading to outages could happen where icing lastslongest.
What will put an end to, and limit the impact of, this icing outbreak will bewarming from the south that will spread through New England, even the far northof Maine. This warming and halt to the glazing will happen late on Sunday nightand through the day on Monday.
On the downside, the warming and soaking plain rain could trigger flooding andeven a few ice jams on Monday into Tuesday.
Story by AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Jim Andrews.
