They are areas of warnings color coded for the various weather types and it looks like it's by county.
Here's a link that's active. Just click on one of the areas in the watch boxes and it'll give you the forecast for that area.
Posted on 01/04/2025 3:46:40 PM PST by Morgana
Nearly 60 million Americans are under weather threat alerts as a monstrous winter storm gears up to slam parts of the country with heavy snow and debilitating ice.
Weather experts forecast that impending winter storm Blair will affect sweep across the Great Plains and the Northeast this weekend into early next week, affecting cities such as Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis and Indianapolis.
Forecasters predict that the Rocky Mountain region as well as the Central and Northern Plains areas will be hit by heavy snow, strong winds and freezing rain.
'The storm is shaping up to be the first widespread cross-country winter storm of the season for the central and eastern United States and will negatively affect travel during the final days of the holiday break,' AccuWeather senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski.
Residents in Wichita, Kansas City and Omaha can expect blizzard-like conditions due to heavy snow and strong winds.
'A wintry mix could start as early as this afternoon and transition to snow Sunday afternoon,' the National Weather Service field office in Kansas City said on X.
'Wind gusts around 35-40 mph on Sunday could yield possible blizzard conditions.'
Over time, the hefty winter storm is expected to shift toward the Missouri region, whose residents should expect similar, hazardous conditions.
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Now, they are saying that this storm is going to affect DC pretty hard on Monday. Since that is January 6, id it going to affect the electoral college tally that day? I wonder how many Congress people are going to be able to get to the Capitol to do it. Will they have to postpone it if they don’t have enough in Congress to certify it?
right on
They are areas of warnings color coded for the various weather types and it looks like it's by county.
Here's a link that's active. Just click on one of the areas in the watch boxes and it'll give you the forecast for that area.
Thanks! Very informative. I’ll send this to my BFF and to my sister & brother in law in northern Virginia.
We do but don’t live as if the storm is coming that night.
So if we have warning, we can batten everything down, and I make sure the shopping for any perishables we need is done, I do the laundry, and cook food as the electric oven is too much for the generator.
Reheating on top of the wood stove or in the microwave works better.
Yeah.
We have family in Buffalo yet and when the kids grew up visiting Buffalo several times a year.
That’s a good idea.
I remember reading in the Little House books they’d do that because of the blizzards.
The city of Buffalo does it downtown every winter. The winds off Lake Erie are incredible.
Interesting problem.
Very good questions.
How many of the women politicos will wear stillettos?? Women can be sooooo dumb. Pelosi is a prime example.
“The big problem is the icing they are forecasting.”
We were “iced in” for 10 days last January. Stayed cozy and all, but cabin fever was setting in.
Which is the LAST thing that NC needs.
Will the solar panels and windmills be safe?
Have our wood cook stove humming. Two cords of split, seasoned hardwood on the porch. Old man winter, have at it!
And there is no mention of warmstorm Willie affecting the left coast. Temps above NOMAL!!!
Several years ago, when the US Embassy in Iraq was still in Saddam’s Presidential Palace in Baghdad, the “incoming” alarm went off one day. As we headed to the nearby concrete bunkers, some State Department weiners came out of the overflow office trailers surrounding the palace, heading for the bunkers.
We were behind some State Dept. woman wearing a white dress (nobody wears white in the desert) and stiletto heels. We easily caught up to and passed her as she was tottering along on those heels.
State Department weiners were always good for a snicker.
“...winter storm Blair” ????
When did we start giving names to winter storms?
They named the thing? That is so weird.
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