'Juggernaut' Snowstorm Heading To New Hampshire: Update

GRAY, ME — The National Weather Service issued a "winter weather advisory" warning due to snow heading into New England Saturday and running through Sunday. The alert, posted at 3:16 a.m., covers the entire state of New Hampshire. The advisory will be active between 4 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. Sunday.

"Low pressure moving out of the Great Lakes region will spread snow into the area," the alert stated. "The snow could be heavy at times, mainly this evening. The (storm) will taper off to snow showers from west to east late tonight through Sunday morning."

Snow accumulations, the NWS said, will be in the 4- to 6-inch range on the Seacoast and 3- to 7-inches inland and more in the Lakes Region and mountains.

WMUR-TV is also calling for snow totals of between 3-to-8-inches.

However, AccuWeather.com, which is calling the storm a "juggernaut," since it originated as "a bomb cyclone" in the western part of the United States, is predicting snowfall accumulations of between 6- and 12-inches for most of the state and 3- to 6-inches on the Seacoast and the southern Rockingham and Hillsborough county communities that border Massachusetts. It's "StormMax" predictor said the storm could be as much as 16-inches.

The storm is expected to arrive around 4-to-5 p.m. Saturday and last through 6-to-7 a.m. Sunday.

The latest weather conditions can be found on the front page of every Patch.com site in the United States including the 12 New Hampshire Patch news and community websites. Local, four-day weather reports for New Hampshire are posted on Sundays and Wednesday or Thursdays. Alerts are posted when needed.

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