First week of the winter brings snow and bitterly cold temperatures

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The cold air will allow for a major winter storm to develop bringing significant impacts to the central and eastern US which could wreck any holiday travel plans this week.

National Weather Service in Burlington wrote, “We believe there will be a first real fall-like system with gusty to strong winds and a period of moderate to heavy rain along and ahead of a cold front.”

The Weather Prediction Center has a slight risk of excessive rainfall for much of the Northeast and New England on Thursday, including places like New York City, Buffalo and Burlington, so we will have to look out for flash flooding in these areas.

The potential for very heavy rain could accompany the front, bringing up to two inches of rain for much of the area, and isolated locations could see even more.

“Ensembles [forecast models] show median rainfall totals by Wednesday night around a half inch, with a potential for some spots to see around one inch, our first substantial rainfall in at least a couple of weeks,” the weather service office in Grand Rapids noted, adding, “It may also get cold enough for some snow to mix in Thursday night to Friday morning, especially in the higher terrain north of Grand Rapids toward Cadillac.”

An atmospheric river event will bring a lot of water to the west and bring a lot of weather to the country.

A massive winter storm bringing a mix of heavy snow, rain and gusty winds is poised to lash much of the US West and North this week and has put more than 40 million people across 22 states under winter weather alerts Tuesday.

The National Weather service in Los Angeles said that California was still bracing for several feet of snow expected in the mountains with a few inches possible in lower elevations. The unseasonable weather for the Golden State comes nearly two months after rounds of deadly flooding battered many areas.

Winds will also be a concern for California, with gusts of up to 40 mph in the valleys, 50 mph for coastal areas, and potentially even higher gusts forecast for exposed coastal headlands, mountaintops, and ridges.

Wills said in the Monday evening update that they were not expecting a quick burst of snow. He said the snow will accumulate the highest in the northern Nebraska panhandle and that it will be blowing around like crazy because of the strong winds.

The NWS says low visibility will make travel conditions more dangerous on snow covered roads. “Additionally, the strong winds could lead to potential power outages from the Midwest to the Northeast.”

“While tornadoes in December are relatively uncommon when compared to the springtime, they are often more likely across portions of the Southeast and Lower Mississippi Valley, where there is often a secondary peak in the fall and winter,” Matthew Elliott, a meteorologist at the Storm Prediction Center, told CNN.

There is a risk of rain and gale force winds in some areas of Oklahoma Wednesday morning and afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.

“The details regarding the areas most at risk from tornadoes will become clearer as the event approaches and smaller-scale trends become more evident,” Elliott said.

The National Weather Service office in Rapid City, South Dakota, said that travel through the area could be nearly impossible on Tuesday and Wednesday.

• Road closures in several states: Perilous conditions triggered highway closures on several states Wednesday, including South Dakota, Wyoming, Arizona, North Dakota and Minnesota.

And an ice storm warning stretched Thursday morning from central Iowa to the Wisconsin-Illinois line and through southern Michigan – with freezing rain threatening ice accumulations that could make morning travel “nearly impossible” in places, the service said.

In Anchorage, Alaska, an “unprecedented amount of snowfall” has led to schools being closed for four days and shut down the University of Alaska Anchorage and Alaska Pacific University on Monday.

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These areas need the moisture and have seen great relief to drought conditions in the past week. Tennessee, for example, went from 96% of the state under drought to being at 46% this week.

Nor’Easter conditions have now been brought by the monster storm that walloped much of the US this week.

In response to the massive storm system, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul warned residents of the hazardous road conditions the storm is threatening to bring as millions across in the Northeast are under winter weather alerts Friday.

Hochul called on everyone to avoid unnecessary travel tonight and tomorrow. If you can, work from home and stay off the roads.

In anticipation of what will be a week of travel nightmares, United, American, Delta, Southwest and Jet Blue have issued travel waivers for dozens of airports across the country from the South to the Northeast, because in addition to snow covering roadways, low visibility could make air travel dangerous.

The unrelenting storm system has cut a dangerous cross-country path since the beginning of week, bringing varying combinations of severe weather to different parts of the US.

In places where there was heavy snowfall last week, strong winds may cause power lines to be knocked out. Millions will have a chance to stay warm as temperatures plunge to well below freezing.

The storm system hitting the Northeast delivered tornadoes earlier in the week. Dozens of tornadoes were reported across Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Alabama, Georgia and Oklahoma since Tuesday.

The ice build up in the Mid-Atlantic was a quarter inch in West Virginia and Maryland, and a tenth of an inch in Virginia.

Thousands of people were left without proper heating after the powerful winds knocked down power lines in the Upper Midwest.

Two deaths in Louisiana during a tornado that struck Farmerville, New Hampshire, and the northern Plains of Minnesota, with an EF-3 tornado

Two people, including an 8-year-old boy, were killed in Louisiana when a tornado hit the area, local officials said.

Another tornado in northern Louisiana traveled through the town of Farmerville was rated an EF-3, with 140 mph winds, according to the National Weather Service. At least 20 people were injured, and the tornado demolished parts of an apartment complex and a mobile home park, Farmerville Police Detective Cade Nolan said.

There were power lines knocked down due to the heavy, wet snow in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. They pointed out that higher altitudes were likely to see heavier snow.

Power went out to more than 10,000 homes and businesses in the east-central area of Minnesota as of Saturday morning, mostly related to the earlier storms in the northern Plains.

Police across New England responded to hundreds of crashes or vehicles sliding off the road this weekend. Since Friday evening Maine State Police have responded to more than 180 crashes. There were only minor injuries.

Over a 36-hour period, 24.5 inches of snow fell in the Vermont town of Wilmington as well as more than 19 inches in Landgrove and Ludlow, the weather service said.

“We are watching two different weather events right now – one producing rain and snow this morning for most of the state, and the other has the potential to bring several feet of snow in the Tug Hill Plateau and areas along Lake Erie and Lake Ontario,” said Jackie Bray, the commissioner of New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services.

Plus, up to 2 feet of snow can accumulate in areas near or south of Buffalo, New York. “These snow bands are likely to be very narrow and lead to drastically changing conditions over a short distance,” the weather service added.

The weather service says the snow showers will end by Saturday morning and there will be just light scattered snow showers.

“Highs over central and eastern Montana will struggle to get above zero today, while daytime lows ranging from 0 to -15 degrees will be common from eastern Washington to the Upper Mississippi Valley,” the Weather Prediction Center wrote.

More than 15 million people will be under a wind chill watch or warning in the Northeastern region from Thursday night to Saturday afternoon.

Florida will cool down by the end of the week and everyone hates it, but only for the next few days, since it is the only warm spot across the country.

Even cooler air is predicted to arrive late in the week in Atlanta, where temperatures are set to drop below freezing early Monday morning. The temperature in Atlanta is expected to be around 13-15 degrees on Friday and Saturday, but will still be below freezing, according to the Weather Service.

By Friday, temperatures could hit the season’s lowest in what is only the first week of winter. Even northern Florida cities like Jacksonville and Tallahassee could see a chill as low as 20 F on Christmas Eve.

Even southern cities which are not accustomed to wintry conditions will get a taste of it this holiday season, with Austin, Houston and Atlanta at risk of seeing temperatures below freezing early in the week.

The high on Christmas Day in Chicago is 12. It would be the worst Christmas in Chicago since 1996. Indianapolis has a forecast high of 13 degrees on Christmas Day, which would be the chillyest in nearly 40 years.

The incoming arctic front brings “extreme and prolonged freezing conditions for southern Mississippi and southeast Louisiana,” the National Weather Service in a special weather statement Sunday.

There is a chance of wind chills into the minus 50s for northern parts of New England.

“The cold weather will not deter people from fishing in northeastern Montana because they are not hard-core, anyways,” said the guide who is based in northeastern Montana.

It was 4 degrees there on Sunday night and there was a coyote contest going on in the nearby community. He said that the guys were just bundled up.

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He went to check on a woman with severe mental health issues in downtown Atlanta earlier this year, and found she had died of suspected hypothermia just hours earlier. He said the woman’s body was found outside of the Greyhound bus station in downtown Atlanta.

He said people without housing who die in freezing weather often do so because they are battling alcohol, drugs or severe mental illness, or they do not trust others and find themselves on the streets rather than a shelter with other people.

“This was a heavy, wet snow so that had impacts on both travel and the infrastructure,” said Frank Pereira, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

Vermont officials said they’re finding locations for potential warming centers in the hardest-hit areas, in case they’re needed. State officials warned Saturday that some customers’ power may not be restored for two to three days.

“We made sure that we had room for them when they came in on the night, because some people couldn’t cook for themselves and so we had to accommodate them,” Gourlay said. Some people came in to watch the final match of the World Cup today because their TVs were out.

When you have a combination of falling or blowing snow and high winds, visibility is reduced to a quarter of a mile.

It will be a concern for the city of Chicago as the winds could gust as high as 50% on Friday. This will only exacerbate the storm’s impacts as wind chills will drop to at least 20 degrees below zero, possibly even colder.

“It’s night in the northern hemisphere Arctic regions and there’s snow and ice covering that entire area. Greg Carbin, branch chief of the prediction center, said that there is a source freezer sitting up in the polar regions. “It’s sort of the Polar Express and the cold air can hold on to those characteristics because there’s a lot of snow cover on the ground, even across the north-central United States.”

The South will be extremely cold. On Saturday, the wind chill will be minus 11 in Nashville and minus 5 in Atlanta.

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The storm will become a bomb cyclone on Friday. A bomb cyclone is when a storm rapidly intensifies – and drops 24 millibars (a term used to measure atmospheric pressure) in 24 hours.

“I-95 gets a slug of pretty deep rain and that can be a problem in those areas that are now seeing snow,” Carbin said. You will see some flooding and melting of the water.

The chance of a white Christmas is increasing because of this major storm. There was already snow on the ground and the temperature was cold, so it was certain that some places were already given.

“The probability is normally about 10% that the DC area will have at least one inch of snow on Christmas Day,” Carbin explained. “With the pattern coming together the way it is, I’d be willing to bump that up to a 30% chance and it could increase pretty substantially here in the next couple of days, depending on what scenario comes out.”

The NWS says that frostbite is a risk when braving the cold. In some areas of the U.S., this week’s sub-zero temperatures could lead to skin damage in as little as 10 minutes.

The Seattle area is under a winter storm warning. The storm will move east into portions of Idaho Tuesday morning and then spread out across northern and central Montana later in the afternoon.

Thursday will also bring a swath of icy weather for some big cities, including Chicago. Ice could also be a problem for parts of the Ohio Valley, yet pinpointing exactly where it will occur is challenging this far out. If you live in this area, stay on top of the forecast so that you can travel and/or stay safe.

While Texas has been bearing the brunt of a dangerous ice storm that dumped several rounds of sleet and freezing rain, life threatening road conditions can be found in other states such as Oklahoma and Arkansas.

The water pipes are at risk of bursting, according to the weather service. A wind chill watch for Amarillo, Texas, is in effect from Wednesday night through Friday afternoon.

“Outdoor pipes will be at risk due to well below freezing temps and windy conditions late this week,” the weather service in Fort Worth said. “Make sure to cover pipes and let faucets drip!”

The latest bulletin from the National Weather Service (NWS) names the cause as a “strong arctic high pressure system,” which swept down from Canada on Tuesday and appears poised to march towards the Southeast on Wednesday and Thursday, leaving a wake of life-threatening weather systems across 17 states.

According to the tracker Flight Aware, there were over 500 delays and over 300 cancellations at airports across the U.S., as of Tuesday morning.

The Colorado Weather Service is predicting a low-degree wind chill for the worst day of the week. It’s forecasting for the rest of the southern states

Those venturing outside should dress in layers,cover their skin and change into dry clothing quickly. Staying inside is the best prevention according to experts.

There are more than 90 million people under winter weather advisories and 87 million under wind chill advisories. The alerts stretch across 37 states, dipping as far south as the Texas/Mexico border.

Denver will go from a high of 47 on Wednesday to a low of minus 14 on Thursday morning. The weather service says it would be the worst day in 32 years.

“Whiteout conditions are expected during that time with travel becoming very difficult or impossible,” said the weather service. If you are trapped in the wind chill in the 30 below to 45 below zero range, it could be a life threatening event.

The weather service office in Chicago said that concern is going to increase in the dangerous conditions on Thursday and that they could impact the evening peak travel window.

Snow could fall as far south as Jackson, Mississippi, Memphis, and Nashville on Thursday. Little to no accumulation is expected for most of the southern cities, however, Nashville could pick up about an inch of snow.

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The weather service says the storm is a once-in-a- generation event and it will reach the Great Lakes pressure equivalent of a Category 3 Hurricane.

“This is a case in which snow totals may not tell the whole story. Even small snow amounts, when combined with very strong wind gusts and plummeting temperatures, can cause poor visibility and slick spots on roads. The weather service explained that the sudden arrival of the conditions can increase the danger.

Jackson and Birmingham are going to be spending more than 80 hours below freezing. Between Thursday and Saturday, Houston could sit below freezing for 46 hours.

Kemp declared a state of emergency on Wednesday due to the upcoming historic low temperatures which are expected to fall into the negative digits by midday on Friday.

The declaration will help “ensure that essential supplies, especially propane can be delivered for both commercial and residential needs,” the governor told reporters.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear also declared a state of emergency, with wind gusts expected to reach 40 to 50 mph on Friday and minus 10 to minus 26 degrees wind chills expected on Saturday. Beshear urged residents to stay off the roads and have a backup heat source.

As freezing drizzle began to fall in central Illinois Sunday night, the weather service office in Lincoln warned of possible slick roads, sidewalks and parking lots. If you are heading out tonight, use caution.

A ice storm warning is in effect for Memphis and the surrounding areas. Travel could be nearly impossible, according to the warning.

In Austin, freezing rain could begin as early as Monday morning. Icing can be done late at night and during the morning. Dallas is expected to have icing from one-tenth to a quarter of an inch.

In Oklahoma, deteriorating travel conditions were expected to begin Monday morning as sleet and freezing rain moved into the area, according to the weather service office in Norman.

While the exact cause of the collision it is not known, excessive blowing snow and winds kept visibility down when it happened – even at times when no new snow was falling. Areas along the I-80 saw between 1 and 5 inches of snow, with isolated areas along the highway seeing even higher accumulations.

The third person to die during the storm was reported after a woman lost control of her truck on an icy road in Texas. One person was killed in Austin in a 10-car pileup, and another person died after their car rolled over in the Dallas-area city of Arlington, officials said.

Weather Forecasts for the Mid-Atlantic Regions of the United States, the Midwest and the Plains from Thursday through Friday and Saturday

Meanwhile, parts of northern New York and northern New England will feel like -35 to -50 degrees Fahrenheit with some locations experiencing wind chills as cold as 65 degrees below zero. Extreme conditions can cause frostbite in as little as five minutes.

Don’t participate in outdoor activities on Friday and Saturday! The New Hampshire Homeland Security and Emergency Management said on their Facebook that the wind chill factor could make conditions outdoors potentially life threatening.

The Pacific Northwest can expect gusts up to 60 mph with three feet of snow in the mountains, while the Cascade Mountains can expect as much as three feet by Tuesday. Seas just offshore will be as high as 20 feet, bringing large, breaking waves to coastal areas, causing beach erosion.

“This amount of snow will result in the passes needing to be closed for a period of time which will impact traffic getting to and from Los Angeles,” The National Weather Service office in Hanford, California said.

Blizzard warnings are in place for southern Wyoming, where nearly two feet of snow and winds gusting more than 70 mph will create blinding conditions. The weather service also warns of wind chills falling to 25 degrees below zero.

There will be record highs in the South on Thursday, which will be as high as 60 to 80 degrees above normal, after more than 30 daily record highs were recorded there on Wednesday. More than 80 such records could be broken Thursday.

The National Weather Service predicts temperatures will reach record highs and lows, while a huge winter storm will plague a large portion of the country.

The term the NWS Climate Prediction Center and many forecasters are using to describe the overall weather pattern is “anomalous” — for the unusual cold and warmth that people will experience.

At the same time, it will feel more like early summer across the Southeast and up into the Midwest, as nearly 150 million Americans will see a high above 70 degrees this week. The highs in the Dakotas will be below zero, while central Florida’s highs will be in the 90s.

As part of the same system, rain and thunderstorms are forecast across the Midwest and Plains late Tuesday night into Wednesday, the prediction center said. Severe storms could start Wednesday in the Upper Midwest.

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Cities across the Florida peninsula could get into the 90’s on Thursday when the temperatures will climb to the 70’s and 80s. These temperatures are usually in the 40s and tend to be high in May or early June.

Gov. Tim Walz directed the state’s National Guard, the transportation department and the state patrol to be prepared to respond storm impacts, he said on Twitter.

Flight cancellations began to rise on Wednesday morning. As of 8 a.m. ET, more than 1,600 flights had been canceled, with Minneapolis International Airport scrapping roughly half of its arrivals.

South Dakota: The city of Sioux Falls Snowfall of up to 16 inches and winds of 45 mph are expected, as well as the 4 inches of snow the state has already seen.

The offices of the state government executive branch are going to be closed on Wednesday in about half the state, with plans for employees to work remotely. I-93 and I-9 closed Tuesday night to prepare for the snow.

The main campus of Eastern Wyoming College has been closed. The Natrona County school district in Casper will conduct a virtual learning day Wednesday due to hazardous weather and road conditions throughout the area, the district said.

Heavy snow on Wednesday night in Minnesota, a state energy emergency declared, and a warning warning to the Northern Rockies and southern heatwave

People in the northern part of the US are getting ready for a storm on Wednesday with high winds and heavy snow.

The state’s governor directed the state’s National Guard, transportation department and state patrol to be ready to respond after schools across Minnesota announced they were closing.

The state highway patrol said search and rescue was underway in several counties to save motorists who become trapped in heavy snow.

In Minnesota, swaths of which saw 3-7 inches with locally higher amounts as of early Thursday, more than 160 vehicle crashes were reported and dozens of cars spun off roads Wednesday, Minnesota State Patrol spokesperson A lieutenant. Gordon Shank said in a series of tweets.

In Wisconsin, the governor declared a statewide energy emergency Wednesday as the state was hit by snow and freezing rain.

If a person looks in the right direction, they can see snow from some vantage point later this week. It is very unlikely that snow will fall in California’s major cities.

The dueling winter storm and southern heat wave created a stark 100-degree temperature difference between the Northern Rockies and the South earlier this week.

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The international airport in Green Bay canceled most of its flights on Thursday and Wednesday night as a precautionary measure.

The offices of the Maine government would be closed on Thursday as the storm is expected to bring significant snowfall to most of the state.

There may be some potential for some snow. Jon Gottschalk is a Branch Chief at the Climate Prediction Center and is cautiously optimistic for snow to potentially be across the mid-Atlantic and other areas that haven’t seen really any snow.

The warm weather has reached far and wide this year. A lot of the country has not been warm, despite the historic cold and snowy winter in the West.

Most people in the US will feel the cold this week due to the fact that much of the cold has been kept bottled up in the northern part of the country. “On the positive side, there just isn’t as cold of air in March left to invade the US and bring too much in the way of a deep freeze, like what we saw in late-December.”

The Tennessee Valley will get hit with a big temperature swing, going from the 80s last week to highs in the 40s next week. It’s a serious concern for agriculture if we can see mornings with temperatures below freezing.

“The main impact that we’re concerned with is the vegetation or potential crop losses, if it does come to fruition, because we do expect freezing temperatures to reach pretty far south,” Gottschalk said.

One of them is a farmer, Rusty Mangrum. He grows hundreds of thousands of plants every year, including fruit trees at his nursery in McMinnville, Tennessee. His trees, like most in the South and mid-South, already think it’s spring.

He said his plants could still produce fruit if the cold snap is short-lived, but if the cold lasts more than a day, it could not only be trouble for the farmers, but for the consumers as well.