Northeast braces for major winter storm

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-- weather alert and if you live in the northeast you're gonna want to pay attention now.

Big winter storm on the way could bring a dangerous mix of snow rain and wind to some of the biggest cities on the East Coast.

Meteorologist Janice Dean live in the fox weather center force -- and you're not gonna plow for me it -- comes.

I'm gonna I'm gonna have my hands full all right I I area and you know local forecasters that live anywhere from New York to Boston.

Are really biting their fingernails because this is a hard one to really forecast knows what the hardest things to really track where the -- timing.

The intensity in the exact track still yet to be determined but we do know.

Is these two systems are going to combined it's -- phasing and once they get together we could have ourselves a blockbuster snow event.

The Boston local forecast offices saying seven 5% chance.

Up twelve inches or more so there is good guidance suggesting that Boston is going to get a big snow event.

A New York City.

Not out of the question depends on where this storm ends up as you can see those two storms kind of merging together Friday.

In this Saturday over -- -- -- really gonna see this thing.

Bomb out or intensify off the coast so there's the European -- this is the aggressive forecast this is the one that really kind of intensifies this storm off the coast overnight into Saturday.

Right there so from New York to Boston.

We could be dealing with -- significant.

Snow event some of the forecast models are saying New York -- could be a crippling snow event.

Where we could see anywhere from twelve to eighteen inches.

Boston you could see anywhere from a foot.

To two feet some of the forecast models saying over thirty inches so.

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As the forecast changes in the next 24 hours you are going to be one busy meteorologist you know I have to admit this is exciting for us to do a big snowstorm.

Obviously we don't like the travel delays.

Up to see an events over two feet of snow that doesn't happen very -- exciting for you because you're not the one shoveling the site.

My husband will be doing that at this and the team I see electric but it's.

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