A major winter storm is expected to bring heavy snow, ice, and frigid temperatures to the central US, causing widespread travel disruptions and potential power outages.
A major winter storm is predicted to bring heavy snow, significant ice, and frigid temperatures to the central US starting on Saturday and moving east over the coming days, according to the National Weather Service. A large weather system made landfall along the West Coast on Friday afternoon, bringing rain to the Pacific Northwest and snow to the Cascade Mountains.
This system will be responsible for the development of a major winter storm from the Central Plains to the Mid-Atlantic this weekend into early next week. By Saturday evening, widespread heavy snow is likely in areas between central Kansas and Indiana, especially along and north of Interstate 70, where there is a high chance of at least 8 inches (20.3 centimeters) of snowfall. For places in the region that typically experience the highest snow totals, it may be the heaviest snowfall in at least a decade, meteorologists said. The storm will then move into the Ohio Valley, where severe travel disruptions are expected. It will reach the Mid-Atlantic states on Sunday into Monday. Wind gusts higher than 35 mph (56 kph) and heavy rates of snowfall could lead to blizzard conditions, particularly in Kansas and nearby portions of the Central Plains by Sunday morning. Whiteout conditions may make driving dangerous to impossible and heighten the risk of becoming stranded. Dangerous sleet and freezing rain, particularly detrimental to power lines, also is anticipated to start Saturday from eastern Kansas to Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and much of Kentucky and West Virginia. Treacherous travel conditions are expected with power outages likely in areas with more than a quarter-inch (a half centimeter) of ice accumulation
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