A powerful winter storm is expected to impact the central and eastern U.S. this weekend, bringing heavy snowfall, dangerous ice accumulations, and frigid temperatures. Travel disruptions and power outages are anticipated.
A major winter storm is expected to bring heavy snow, significant ice and frigid temperatures to the central U.S. starting on Saturday and moving east over the next several days, according to the National Weather Service. A large system made landfall along the West Coast on Friday afternoon, bringing rain to the Pacific Northwest with snow expected in 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). For places in the region that typically experience the highest snow totals, it may be the heaviest snowfall in at least a decade. 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. Arctic air to be felt as far south as Florida Temperatures could be 12 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit (7 to 14 degrees Celsius) colder than normal as the polar vortex stretches down from the high Arcti
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