A storm aiming for the Great Lakes will bring a wintry mix, including some ice, to the interior Northeast tonight into Wednesday.

The coldest air will leave resulting in rain as a storm comes calling to the I-95 zone and for the Ohio Valley, while snow, sleet and freezing rain will fall over northern New England and upstate New York.

Up to several inches of snow, some sleet and a layer of freezing rain will coat roadways from northeastern New York state to northern and central Maine and central and northern New Brunswick.

A period of freezing rain and sleet will fall from part of northern Pennsylvania to central New England and the Maine coast.

Temperatures will rebound to above the freezing mark across the Ohio Valley, much of the mid-Atlantic and southern New England.

For Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City, this will be a rain event.

However, this week began with temperatures well below zero across the north including 27 degrees below zero in Saranac Lake, N.Y., and 20 degrees below zero in Fryeburg, Maine. That deep hole will be tough to dig out of across the north, setting the stage for an extended period of freezing and/or frozen precipitation.

Even the northern and western suburbs of New York City and the suburbs well north of Philadelphia can have a touch of ice or a little wintry mix at the onset of the storm. (Be careful on I-80 in the Poconos.) Farther to the north and east, around Boston (including the Massachusetts Turnpike), a wintry mix will mark the first part of the storm. In these areas, the slippery conditions will be more of a result of cold ground as air temperatures will be on the rise.

Weather conditions can be slippery for a time around Albany, N.Y., Hartford, Conn, Worcester, Mass., Portsmouth, N.H., and Augusta, Maine.

The bulk of the storm’s moisture will fall as snow north and west of the region. Portions of central Ontario and southern Quebec will wind up with a foot (30 cm) of snow from the storm. Ottawa, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec, should do well with snow.

Even a thin coating of sleet and freezing rain over the interior Northeast U.S. can make for hazardous and slow travel. Fortunately from a power outage standpoint, few problems are expected, due to the relatively small amount of ice expected with this particular storm.

Gusty winds that follow the storm with a return of cold air are more likely to cause sporadic power outages Wednesday.

In this weather pattern moving forward, more warm-ups are inevitable from the central Plains to the mid-Atlantic with the main storm track aiming for the Great Lakes.

The same pattern will allow pockets of cold air to hang on in the Northwest, the Upper Midwest and part of New England. It is in these areas where the bulk of snow and ice events will occur.