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By Anna Skinner
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Over the next seven days, states in the Pacific Northwest, northern Plains and Northeast will likely see more snow.
A seasonal outlook published in November by the National Weather Service (NWS) Climate Prediction Center has forecast which states will see above-average precipitation this winter, some of which will fall in the form of snow. The next outlook won't publish until December 19, providing a look at what experts think will happen over the next several months, though meteorologists at the NWS Weather Prediction Center have a good idea of what winter weather will hit the U.S. over the next week.
As of Thursday morning, a winter storm was dumping snow across the Northeast, not even a week after a separate system brought upwards of 5 feet of lake effect snow to parts of New York.
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After the current system passes, the Northeast will see a milder trend for winter weather, NWS Weather Prediction Center meteorologist David Roth told Newsweek.
Over the next few days, the greatest probability of more than 1 inch of accumulating snow is expected near and downwind of the Great Lakes and in the higher elevation parts of the Northwest, according to the NWS Weather Prediction Center forecast. States with the highest chance for snow include New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts.
"The pattern is about to change with the eastern part of the U.S. getting milder," Roth said. "A milder trend starts as early as Sunday."
Roth went on to add that weather will alternate between cold and mild in the Northeast this winter.
Warmer temperatures mean that any precipitation that comes would likely fall as rain. There's another chance for a lake effect snow event during the middle of next week in the New England area, but Roth said those states "shouldn't get too much" snow.
No Nor'easters threatening major snowstorms are in the forecast, Roth said.
As of Thursday afternoon, winter weather alerts were in place in Washington, Michigan, northern Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine.
Cold weather advisories and a freeze watch have been issued across the south, including in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
Much of the snow in the Northeast will begin to melt this weekend as temperatures trend upward. Rain on Sunday could contribute to snowmelt as well, Roth said.
When it comes to the rest of the winter, the state expecting to be coldest and snowiest this winter is Montana, according to the meteorologist.
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