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.”
Ski areas in Utah are getting the most snow on record.
Anyone else notice storms can’t seem to get past Yellowstone? They barrel in from NW, hit an invisible wall over the park and break up. The last storm actually reversed track and moved west back into Idaho.
Meanwhile, New England ski areas are struggling to keep all their runs open. The mountains are supposed to get a couple feet over the next few days. I have an EPIC New England pass and have only gone three times.
Load-up, folks:
White bread, eggs, milk and TP.
The next 3 days here in Central kentucky are record highs. Which is no guarantee we won’t have snow shortly after. This time of year are our temperatures tend to bounce back and forth dramatically on a regular basis.
I’m laying out Thursday. Temperature will be 82°.
“White bread, eggs, milk and TP.”
That’s racist. Might I suggest a more diverse shopping list?
White AND whole wheat bread, white AND brown eggs, whole milk AND chocolate milk. The TP? Well, TP is white...but you’ll be supplying the brown, so that’s cool.
That kick-started my morning! Many thanks!
You can look it up. You don’t have to guess. NOAA says the average global temperature has not risen at all over at least the last six years. One warmer than usual season does not climate change make.
[[“massive winter storm”]]
Que the msm and their “GLOBAL WARMING!” stories
LOL! 😆 too funny! Internet win of the day
No worries for me. I’m south of the track.
and the planet could be in a warming pattern.
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The earth’s climate has been changing for billions of years, few would doubt climate change exist.
That man has anything to do with the climate change is perhaps the biggest lie ever told.
Various governments around the world are using this lie to control their citizens in a way that would not be acceptable other wise.
“There are actually two strong storm systems, one over Montana, and the other just north of Michigan.”
A giant cloud of smug from San Francisco will merge with a medium cloud of smug from Hollywood and create... DOOM!
Just a suggestion: You might use = instead of hyphens in front of your numerals bc hyphens can appear to be minus signs. As in . . .
= 21 or + 21 F.
instead of . . .
- 21
In Montana here, we read minus signs quite often during winter.
Agree.
:-)
LOL!
But I’ll stay with the “White Stuff, thankyouverymuch.
--and the price of lettuce, etc., is gonna go up when no more water flows past Hoover Dam--
Atlanta tomorrow, 81 degrees, the warmest ever recorded in February. Enjoy your blizzard.
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