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Winter Storm Rex Forecast: Snow, Ice from Midwest to Northeast

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Weather.com,

16 February, 2013

Although a warmer weather pattern will soon take over in the central and eastern U.S., we have to get through one more winter storm before that happened. The Weather Channel has determined that this storm meets our winter storm naming criteria, and therefore we have named it Winter Storm Rex,the 18th named storm of the 2013-14 winter storm season.

Here's what you need to know about Winter Storm Rex..

• How much snow: Expect 4 or more inches in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Locally 6 to 8 inches could fall. Lighter amounts surrounding this area; see inset map for details.
  
  
• How much ice: Light icing from freezing rain (mixed with sleet and, in some cases, snow) from southeast South Dakota and eastern Nebraska east across parts of Iowa, northern and eastern Missouri, central and southern parts of Illinois and Indiana, and southwest Ohio. Ice accumulations due to freezing rain generally less than one-tenth of an inch.
  
  
• Timing of onset: Precipitation develops over the Dakotas Sunday evening; moves into Minnesota, Iowa, and parts of Wisconsin later Sunday night; the rest of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana on Monday; and into Ohio Monday evening.
  
  
• Precipitation ends: Sunday night in the Dakotas; by midday Monday in Minnesota and Iowa. East of the Mississippi River, snow and wintry precipitation will generally end 4 to 8 hours after starting.
  
  
• Winds: May gust to 20 to 30 mph in parts of the Upper Midwest.
  
  
• Impact: Snow covered roads in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Freezing rain may make for very icy and slick conditions farther south, but freezing rain isnot expected to be heavy enough to cause power outages or tree damage.
  
  
• Cities affected: Fargo, Sioux Falls, Omaha,Des Moines, Minneapolis-St. Paul,Milwaukee, Green Bay, Chicago, St. Louis,Indianapolis, Detroit, Dayton
  
  
• Winter weather alerts: Upper Midwest |Central Plains/Mississippi Valley

Northeast

• How much snow: Generally 1 to 5 inches in the affected areas (see inset map).
  
  
• Timing: Beginning Monday night in most areas, except Tuesday morning in New England. Snow will generally last 6 to 12 hours in most locations before ending.
  
  
• Impacts: Generally a nuisance snowfall leading to slick spots on the roads. Streets and secondary roads will be snow covered in many areas.
  
  
  Winds: Southerly winds of 10 to 20 mph will accompany the snow in western New York and western Pennsylvania. Lighter winds farther east.
  
  
• Cities affected: New York
  City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, Buffalo,Syracuse

• Winter weather alerts: Northeast

Rex is the Latin word for "king."

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