Posted on 02/21/2023 4:05:35 AM PST by george76
The U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) on Monday warned that a "massive winter storm" is anticipated to impact a large portion of the United States this week and present a range of hazards.
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The U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) on Monday warned that a “massive winter storm” is anticipated to impact a large portion of the United States this week and present a range of hazards.
The arctic blast is starting to hit the Pacific Northwest and then push across the northern Rocky Mountains and onto the Great Plains. It will bring heavy snow and strong winds, the National Weather Service said. Temperatures will drop drastically after Tuesday leading to dangerous wind chills, the weather service said.
According to a map posted by the NWS on Monday, winter storm warnings, blizzard warnings, and winter storm watches are in effect for many counties in the Rocky Mountain states. Warnings and watches were also issued for South Dakota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
“A broad swath of accumulating snow is expected across northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan,” according to the NWS’s bulletin. “Some locally heavier totals will be possible in favorable lake and higher elevation locations across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Portions of the Upper Midwest will see little break between this system and impacts from the major winter storm approaching immediately thereafter.”
That system will then bring some snowfall to the upper portions of the Northeast United States later this week, according to The Weather Channel’s forecast.
As of Monday, winter storm warnings span from Washington to California, along with Nevada to Montana. Blizzard warnings are in effect for parts of southern Wyoming, while winter storm watches are in effect from Arizona to the Plains and Upper Midwest regions.
Impacts..
“A major multiday winter storm will affect areas from the West Coast through the Upper Midwest Monday through Thursday with heavy snow and considerable impacts,” the NWS stated. “Snow, sleet, and freezing rain may spread into the Great Lakes and Northeast later this week.”
Widespread travel impacts and possible power outages should be expected, the NWS said.
“This looks to be a long duration storm, with things starting to pick up in the North West tonight and into the day Tuesday,” Rich Otto, with the NWS, told the Wall Street Journal.
“Lots of snow is expected for the western U.S. that will spread across to the east,” he continued. “It’s essentially a coast to coast winter storm that’s going to continue through Friday.”
Forecasters with AccuWeather said there is a very slight potential the storm brings snow to Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and cities along the way.
“The chance of this storm and others to bring snow and/or ice to Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia is very low through the first part of March,” AccuWeather’s Joe Lundberg said. “For now, outside of the higher terrain in the Appalachians, Interstate 80 may be the southernmost cutoff for snow and ice with the storm later this week.”
“High pressure and the associated northward bulge in the jet stream across the Southeastern states will be very strong this week and should work to keep the storm track well to the north,” Lundberg also said. “As long as that holds up, it is going to be very hard to get snow to fall from New York City to DC. North of there, the chances are [looking] much better.”
There are actually two strong storm systems, one over Montana, and the other just north of Michigan.
There are also two storm systems in the south that do not appear to be as strong but are producing high winds and with it many red flag warnings for fire watches. The temperatures are not going to be high so the winds will make it feel colder.
It’s a very active weather map across the whole country.
Is Al Gore on a national book tour?
Damn “global warming”!
So George Noory is responsible for this storm? Is he in charge of the weather machine now?
The pit of winter, mid-January to mid-February, has passed, and the rewarming of the Northern hemisphere with returning moisture fuels what may be the worst snowstorms of the season, lasting well into April.
Yet it is almost all melted away by the first of July.
We can’t just shoot down Weather balloons and not expect that the Weather won’t fight back.
High Temps - Wednesday 38 - Thursday 36 - Friday 38
Normal High Temp - 51
Low Temp Thursday - 21
1894 Record Low - 21
Considering our official Temps are recorded about 100 feet away from a SeaTac Airport runway, that is pretty impressive cold weather.
I just checked the forecasts and it looks like anywhere South of Nebraska will be unaffected.
—needs to hit the Colorado River basin hard—California, Nevada and Arizona need the water—
This is the time of the year when the SE is into early spring and watches with mixed emotions the often powerful late wonder storms hit the Northern half the country:
Some with glee
some with jealousy
Winter storms are so unusual this time of the year, the only possible explanation has got to be glow-bull warming. /sarc/
We need more EV’s to help combat winter storms. When they catch fire they will melt the snow off your yard, inside your garage and even off the roof of your home.
In other words, it'll impact a large portion of the United States, that is "large" as if you need to use a push mower to take care of it.
It'll impact very few Americans. I could care less about snow falling on unplanted farm land.
What? We’ve never heard of ....... winter? Why, back in ‘78 ........
California and .. should stop stealing Colorado River / Owens Valley water, build desalination plants, build new dams / keep existing dams to keep water from running into the ocean, and ..
Many ski areas are getting above average snow ..
Thankful for climate change. 😵🌬🌨
Not here in Raleigh NC. Wednesday and Thursday highs ate 77° and 84°.
Cold and Snow is now considered “extreme weather.”
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