Winter Storm to Cover 1,700-Mile Stretch of U.S. Land in Ice, Snow

A storm will function as reality check for thousands of Americans this weekend, following a stretch of springlike warmth anticipated to challenge records. Wintry precipitation is expected to spread over a range of 1,700-mile landscape portion of the United States soil, spanning from the Central to Northeastern regions.

This storm will bring with it hazardous conditions characterized by severe thunderstorms and flooding across the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys, which may pose a threat of snow and ice, starting this weekend.

After the climate system tracks via the Northwest at midweek, it'll intensify and tap into the available power from an unusually warm and humid air mass surging out of the Gulf of Mexico.

A massive rain chance will first enlarge across the mid-Mississippi Valley on Friday, then the danger for collecting snow and ice will soon after that threaten portions of the Plains and Midwest while colder air seeps southeastward.

The setup, according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski, would result in a "very tight weather contrast zone" where rainy conditions, snow, and ice could all occur.

He added the temperatures over the identical 100-mile cross-phase would depend on the balmy 50 and 60 degrees Fahrenheit to the 20 and 30 degrees Fahrenheit.

Beginning across the Friday night commute, there can be a slender hall from northeastern Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, into northern Missouri where atmospheric situations permit for freezing rain to fall.

AccuWeather Meteorologist Mary Gilbert said any roads left untreated, especially alongside the northern edge of the country, are expected to be blanketed in ice. 

"Even a glaze of ice on roadways may additionally cause increased spin-outs or maybe multi-vehicle accidents," she added.

Topeka, Kansas, as well as each Kansas City and St. Joseph, Missouri, ought to face this hazard Friday afternoon and nighttime. Travelers alongside interstates 29, 35, and 70 in this location will need to screen the forecast carefully.

The threat for ice and snow will continue to expand northeastward into the Great Lakes Friday nighttime into Saturday as the storm continues alongside its path.

Chicago and Detroit may also face the risk for a wintry combination of precipitation beginning Friday night.

The storm is anticipated to music eastward through the Ohio Valley on Saturday, and bloodless air filtering into the typhoon will gradually shift precipitation modes from ice to snow across the Midwest.

Some regions that may additionally emerge as encased in ice can also then see collecting snow afterward, including additional stress to tree limbs and electricity lines.

The typhoon will pivot, and precipitation will transition to snow, burying quantities of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan beneath totals over 6 inches Saturday into Saturday night.

The snow and ice threat will preserve to amplify into the Japanese Great Lakes in addition to northern New England Saturday nighttime into Sunday. Similar risks will exist throughout a corridor from western New York to Maine.

The danger for wintry precipitation may want to make tour treacherous throughout interstates 81, 87, 89, 90, 91, 93, and 95 across New York and New England over the latter half of the weekend.

Sosnowski explained the temperature and weather comparison zone finally ends up is key to the forecast. The areas, Sosnowski added, should shift farther to the north and west or possibly farther to the south and east inside the coming days.

The storm machine will preserve to music right off the Atlantic coast through the cease of the weekend, bringing a go back of dry climate early next week.