Northeast: Mostly rain is expected ahead of the storm system Thursday and Friday in the East, according to AccuWeather.“The big deal in these areas is not the amount of snow, but the extreme cold accompanying the snow and the extreme wind,” Kines said. Louis, Detroit and Chicago will all be hit. Midwest: Midwestern U.S. states into the Great Lakes can expect blizzard conditions from snow and strong winds, and light to moderate snowfall is forecast. Heavier snow could exceed a foot over the Great Lakes through Friday.What are the snowstorm's expected impacts?
Here’s what to know about the pre-holiday storm: "This storm really means business in the Midwest and Great Lakes," AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tom Kines told USA TODAY. Much of the eastern two-thirds of the country can expect heavy snow, damaging winds and even some heavy rainfall to accompany the extreme cold through the holiday weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
Tempted to joke about global warming amid a blizzard?: Here's what experts say about that. It amounts to "dangerously cold conditions across most of the country this week." More than half of U.S. states are forecast to see some areas with minimum wind chill temperatures in the negative double digits, with the coldest regions bracing for wind chills below -50 degrees, according to the weather service. More than 50 million Americans were under a wind chill warning Wednesday as brutal cold and dangerous wind chills threatened the northern Plains en route to the East Coast by Friday. 22.Ī blockbuster blizzard is set to spread a multitude of weather hazards – and holiday travel chaos – across the central and eastern United States to mark the winter solstice.Īs a strong arctic cold front begins diving into the central Plains on Wednesday and the southern Plains by early Friday, forecasters warn temperatures could dip by 20 or more degrees within just a few hours. Click here for live updates on the weather forecast and storm outlook across the US on Thursday, Dec. This page recaps the weather and forecast for Wednesday, Dec. Some power outages and downed tree limbs or trees could also result from the weight of the snow combined with the force of the strong winds.Watch Video: Blizzards with bomb cyclone potential dump snow, drop temperatures We strongly urge those with travel plans in these areas to either complete them before the storm or postpone them until after the storm is over. Roads, including interstates, could become impassable or may close, especially in rural areas.īitterly cold air plunging in during the snowstorm could become life-threatening for those stranded on roads. Travel could become extremely difficult, if not impossible, over areas from Wyoming into South Dakota, central and southern Minnesota and into northern Wisconsin. Strong winds will combine with heavy snow to produce blizzard conditions in parts of the Northern Plains from late Tuesday through early Thursday.
The majority of the snowfall on the map above, however, will occur with Winter Storm Olive. Snowfall Forecast (Note, this forecast includes a separate light snow event that will brush areas near the Canadian border from the northern Great Lakes to northern New England through Tue.
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