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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Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, French Toast 5-stack. Just KerryGold Irish Butter for me. Made it a few times recently, after forgetting about it, for years. Wonderful breakfast!
I left the DC area in 1992, and moving to Albuquerque I gained 4 hours of extra life a day because of the lack of traffic.
Naming snowstorms is as feminization as men saying “cringey” now
We’re supposed to get only an inch of snow in Pennsylvania. I’ll watch the fun online with a hot cup of coffee. Enjoy.
If we get a heavy snow, I predict snowflakes will melt.
That’s a double entendre, you be the judge how apt is was.
We can hardly find eggs on the shelves here in Los Angeles.
I’ll take two feet of snow over an ice storm. We had one in 2009 and power was out for 13 days. Poles broken, trees on lines, etc.
They predicted . . . WINTER!
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My brother in law's niece died in a ice storm...even driving with caution slid over the edge on a mountain road in Washington State and broke her neck. Nothing to play around in... Stay home!
They are indeed. I went through one in 2014 — freezing rain producing enough ice to break branches out of trees. The power went out and stayed out for about 13 hours. We were lucky; some people had their power out for several days.
I remember that! People had cleared out the stores around here of TP in less than 24 hours.
Some were hoarding it just to resell at a higher price but found they could not sell it. Those people should be okay tonight. That is if they have not gone though that supply by now.
For women its a big deal. You know how much toilet paper they go through in a day. Out of a 12 pack, a man will use 2, a woman will use 10.
Toilet paper??
I thought that was what snow was for!!!
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I hear ya…
“Crappy” was from a sense of irony. I was obliquely pointing out how he was not hewing to the popular liberal form of weather reporting where everything is hyperbole and bombast. I used “crappy” in the reverse sense.
naming snow storms is the ghey...
I see.
Hyperbole.
I’m not far from you on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Just glad I’m retired! Until recently I had to brave stuff like this to get to work in DC.
Ice coating starting to build up. Electric just went out. Elec Co says 33 of us lucky households are out. New fiber modem has 4-6 hours of backup but my laptop battery is junk so I’ve got 10 minutes on it. Goats are bouncing around under the house because the buck is trying to get him some. Been heating with space heaters but in the next hour when it gets lighter, I’ll be starting up the wood stove. Peachy.
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