A double dose of nasty winter is about to smack much of the US with snow, ice and biting cold
Source: AP
By SETH BORENSTEIN
Updated 10:24 AM CST, January 3, 2025
A strong snow and ice storm followed by brutally cold conditions will soon smack the eastern two-thirds of the United States as frigid air escapes the Arctic, plunging as far south as Florida, meteorologists forecast.
Starting Saturday, millions of people are going to be hit by moderate to heavy snow from Kansas City to Washington — including a high chance of at least 8 inches of snow between central Kansas and Indiana — the National Weather Service warned Friday. Dangerous ice particularly lethal to power lines — “so heavy like paste, it’s hard to move,” said private meteorologist Ryan Maue — is likely to set in just south of that in southern Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and much of Kentucky and West Virginia.
“It’s going to be a mess, a potential disaster,” Maue said. “This is something we haven’t seen in quite a while.”
National Weather Service meteorologist Alex Lamers said Friday that the potential for blizzard conditions is increasing, particularly in Kansas and neighboring portions of the Central Plains, and that wind gusts may reach 50 mph at times.
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In the Sierras, there's something blowing in as we speak. It's blowing up to 45mph gusts, maybe 60+ over the summits.
Got the trash cans in the garage this morning before they went on wolkabout...
Supposedly over a foot for above 7000', maybe 4"-8" here around 6000'
We'll see how much actually sticks, it's gonna rain first...and the resulting mix is fondly referred to as "Sierra Cement"
YUCK!
