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Ingredients may be coming together to produce another major winter storm next weekend in the East.
While millions of Americans dig out from the monster winter storm, forecasters are warning of a new threat that could deliver even more snow to the East Coast.
The FOX Forecast Center says the pattern is favorable for another potential big winter storm to develop next weekend - a nor'easter that could bury parts of the Northeast and New England in heavy snow.
Meteorologists says it is still way too early to determine exact impacts, timing, and snow forecasts, but computer forecast models have consistently shown the storm's development in the past 24 hours.
All eyes will be on this potential storm as cities along the East Coast work to clear snow and ice from this past weekend's storm.
At least 12 people have died as a result of the historic winter storm that's impacted millions of Americans across dozens of states this weekend with snow, ice and extreme cold. Deaths were reported in Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, and Pennsylvania according to local officials across the 6 states.
Computer weather forecast model showing the different ingredients that could produce an East Coast snowstorm. (Source: WeatherBELL)
New York, Philadelphia, and Boston are all digging out from the biggest snowstorm in years, and another one could be on the way. The FOX Forecast Center is tracking a potential nor'easter that may slam the East Coast again next weekend.
Meteorologist are closely monitoring an evolving weather pattern around the Northern Hemisphere that would deliver another big storm. FOX Weather meteorologists caution that we're still a week away from this even possible happening, but the signs are there in the computer forecast models that it could be happening.
According to the FOX Forecast Center, the atmospheric pattern reloads this weekend with another push of arctic air into the eastern half of the U.S.
One big signal is an atmospheric traffic jam over Greenland that can force storms to take paths that meander along the coast making for multi-day weather hazards.
The second is an impressive ridge in the Intermountain West. While temperatures there will be much above average, it gives a clear path for the jet stream to bring systems out of Canada, over the Plains, and exiting somewhere along the Atlantic seaboard. This also helps to ensure that cold air continues to funnel out of the arctic and into the eastern half of America.
Should the timing align over the weekend, it could set the stage for yet another northeast snowstorm.
Bangor International Airport in Maine remains closed to air traffic this morning following a plane crash on Sunday evening.
The Federal Aviation Administration says the airport remains closed to all air traffic until noon ET on Monday.
The private passenger jet, a Bombardier Challenger 600, carrying 8 people crashed during takeoff around 7:45 p.m. ET.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators are investigating the crash.
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