A winter storm that could bring as much as 18 inches of snow tosome areas is targeting the Northeast today and tomorrow, accordingto reports.
|The National Weather Service says much of the region can expectlight-to-moderate snow, but that parts of southern New England maysee a period of heavy snow. NWS says some areas may also experiencerecord-low temperatures.
|Weather.com, the website for The Weather Channel, says twoweather disturbances—one of which is brought snow to Milwaukee,Chicago and across the Great Lakes region—are converging to form “asingle—and much more powerful—low-pressure system.”
|This system, says Weather.com, will bring snow to the Northeastthrough Thursday and into Friday. The Weather Channel is callingfor 5-8 inches at the southern part of the storm—includingPhiladelphia New York City—as well as the northern part of thestorm, including Portland, Maine. Most areas in the Northeastaffected by the storm will see 8-12 inches, and isolated areas,including Boston, could see up to 18 inches, according to TheWeather Channel forecast.
|Insurance Information Institute President Robert Hartwig says ina statement, “Severe winter storms are often the third-largestcause of insured-catastrophe losses in any given year—afterhurricanes and tornadoes.”
|The I.I.I., citing Property Claims Service for Verisk InsuranceSolutions, says that, on an inflation-adjusted basis, insurers paid$27.8 billion in winter-storm claims to policyholders between 1993and 2012, or $1.4 billion per year, on average.
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