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A large area of snowfall will occur over the country’s midsection, while a band of freezing rain will span from the center of the country to the eastern tip; plus, more of today’s weather news and forecasts.
At least nine states will see snowfall today in the nation’s midsection. The heaviest snowfall is forecast over parts of western and northern Texas, while another large portion of the state will experience a wintry mix and freezing rain, with thunderstorms to the south.
Snowfall is forecast over most of Wyoming, all of Colorado, western and southern Nebraska, all of Kansas, most of Missouri, southern Iowa, as well as most of Oklahoma, and New Mexico.
The majority of Washington and Oregon will see mixed precipitation today, with snowfall to the east.
Snow is also forecast for central and northern Idaho, western Montana, and central Utah.
A lengthy and wide swath of mix precipitation and freezing rain will span all the way from southeast Arizona, across the country’s midsection, northward into the Ohio Valley, and through the Northeast across the New England states extending to Maine.
The National Weather Service has forecast areas of freezing rain for portions of central and northern Texas, central and eastern Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, southern Missouri, southern Illinois, eastern Indiana, southern Ohio, northern Kentucky, northern West Virginia, as well as southwestern and northeastern Pennsylvania.
Northwest & Northern Rockies: Seattle 40/rain, Portland 44/partly cloudy, Boise 32/mostly sunny, Billings 30/sunny, Bismarck 25/sunny, Rapid City 29/partly cloudy.
West: San Francisco 57/sunny, Reno 36/mostly sunny, Las Vegas 51/windy, Salt Lake City 26/partly cloudy, Denver 21/snow, Los Angeles 63/sunny.
Southwest: Phoenix 56/sunny, Albuquerque 37/snow, El Paso 56/rain, San Antonio 83/partly cloudy.
Central & South-Central: Lubbock 37/snow, Dallas 67/partly cloudy, Oklahoma City 37/cloudy, Kansas City 33/cloudy, St. Louis 41/rain.
Upper Midwest: Minneapolis 21/partly cloudy, International Falls 13/mostly sunny.
South: Houston 80/partly cloudy, Memphis 66/rain, New Orleans 75/rain, Atlanta 67/rain, Charlotte 71/rain, Jacksonville 75/partly cloudy, Tampa 75/partly cloudy, Miami 77/partly cloudy.
Ohio Valley: Chicago 35/windy, Detroit 37/cloudy, Cincinnati 58/rain.
East: Norfolk 70/mostly cloudy, Washington, D.C. 63/rain, Buffalo 37/snow, New York 58/rain, Boston 48/cloudy, Bangor 33/mostly cloudy.
