Posted on 01/09/2025 8:19:53 PM PST by Morgana
A winter storm is forecasted to sweep across a 1,400-mile-long swath of the southern US starting Thursday, burying some states in up to a foot of snow.
The enormous path of the storm, dubbed Cora, spans 18 states from New Mexico to Virginia where the National Weather Service (NWS) has issued winter storm watches, warnings, and/or winter weather advisories.
One to six inches of snow could accumulate from central Texas through much of Tennessee and the southern Appalachians over then next two days.
'Should six inches of snow fall in Dallas, it would be in the top-five snowfalls on record,' AccuWeather Senior Director of Forecasting Operations Dan DePodwin said.
But pockets of heavier snowfall up to 12 inches are possible from just north of Dallas to Little Rock, Arkansas, as well as eastern Tennessee and high elevations of western North Carolina, according to AccuWeather meteorologists.
Cora's impact could stretch into the Ohio Valley, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, though storm conditions will be minor in these regions.
Temperatures have plunged well below average across the South, which will allow snow and ice to accumulate Thursday and Friday.
Widespread icing may be heavy enough to cause scattered power outages, as many states in the storm's path are still working to restore electricity in the wake of Winter Storm Blair.
This wintery mess will create dangerous travel conditions across the region Thursday through Friday, including in and around the metro areas of Dallas-Ft. Worth, Little Rock, Nashville, Atlanta and Charlotte.
'Persons should delay travel if possible. If travel is absolutely necessary, drive with extreme caution and be prepared for sudden changes in visibility,' the NWS advised.
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My bad!!! So, despite that little error, my hard 20 paid off baby!!! I’m on a roll!! Vegas here I come!!
Yep, I hate digging the sunshine out of my driveway😂
It’s freezing here today, it’s gotta be in the *60s.
It’s so cold only Canadian women go topless.
In Florida getting bundled up means putting on shoes and a shirt😂
Here in North Metro Atlanta we were supposed to get one inch. We already have 3 plus and another snow band on the way. We are not leaving the driveway. Tonight it freezes again and everything will be iced over. What a mess! 😣
=:-)
What about the granny trannies?
12” of snow? Well depending on where in the south, this will effectively shut places down for a month. I remember the rare occassions we would get 4-6 inches growing up in NC... town would literally be shut down for days.
Towns would have to share road equipment to clear the snow, because none of them had snow removal equipment, so front loaders, and road graders and other things would be used, and they would do one town, then move on to the next would shut your town down for potentially a week or more depending on when they go to your town.
No salt, or anyway to melt it, so if it snowed even modestly and the weather stayed cold, the whole town just effectively stopped until the equipment got to town.
Nope, that’s key west, get you mind out of the gutter😁
irrefutable?
Virginia Beach it was soggy slush , whatever survives today will freeze overnight
Good conditions for black ice , be careful out there.
“We’re ready to hunker down until it all melts.”
That’s what we’re doing here in east TN. We didn’t get a huge amount of snow, but enough that we aren’t going out until some melting happens. Probably no church tomorrow, depending on if the county brings in plows.
The generator has been reliable, and kicks in so smoothly that sometimes we don’t even know that the power is off. And the pantry is stocked. If we were to worry about anything, it would be possibly having to get out for medical reasons.
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