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A large winter storm and colder polar air are coming to the northern and eastern US late this week, following a pair of quick striking storms in the northern tier today and tomorrow; plus, more of weather news and today’s forecast.
Cold air courtesy of a polar vortex will send temperatures plummeting beginning Wednesday, becoming more widespread on Thursday.
Temperatures up and down the eastern seaboard have ranged some 15 to 30 degrees above normal, delivering highs that ranged from 40 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. A shift in the jet stream is about to change all that.
A polar vortex will weaken and stretch, allowing cold air from Canada to shift southward into the northern tier and eastern half of the country sending temperatures plummeting.
On Wednesday, the north-central US will experience a strong drop in temperatures that will feel between -20 to -30 degrees in some areas. The cold air spreads into the Northeast on Thursday, a day ahead of a large winter storm that arrives on Friday.
On the back of a pair of quick-hitting storms that will deliver snow to the northern tier of the US on Wednesday into early Thursday, by Friday and through the weekend, a large winter storm will deliver significant snowfall to the Northern and Eastern US.
The large winter storm begins on Friday night affecting the north-central and portions of the northeast. Snowfall is forecast on Friday-Friday night for eastern North Dakota, central and eastern South Dakota, eastern Nebraska, all of Minnesota and Wisconsin, northern Iowa, all of Michigan, northeastern Ohio, and Western Pennsylvania.
Friday storm will also deliver a wintry mix to southeastern Nebraska, central and eastern Kansas, southern Iowa, northern Missouri, most of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, and the eastern half of West Virginia.
On Saturday, the storm moves east delivering snowfall to most of Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, as well as northern New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
A wintry mix on Saturday is forecast for northern Illinois and Indiana, most of Ohio, western and southern New York, most of New Jersey, and portions of the Virginias and Delaware
West: San Francisco 53, Los Angeles 67, Salt Lake City 39 Denver 49.
Northwest: Seattle 38, Portland 34, Billings 17, Boise 35.
Southwest: Las Vegas 60, Phoenix 74, Albuquerque 55, El Paso 76.
Central: Dallas 76, Oklahoma City 53, Kansas City 46, St. Louis 54.
North-central: Bismarck -5, Chicago 35, Minneapolis 23, Madison 32, Cleveland 49.
South: Houston 76, New Orleans 75, Atlanta 71, Orlando 83, Tampa 81, Miami 81.
East: Washington 57, Philadelphia 51, New York 50, Boston 48, Bangor 38.
