US EditionForecasters Warn of a ‘Major Winter Storm’ with Ice Threat From Texas to the Carolinas
The storm could produce up to a foot of snow and significant ice accumulations, threatening power lines and travel across the southern U.S., forecasters said.
- On Tuesday, National Weather Service forecasters warned an ice storm arriving late this week into the weekend could weigh down power lines and cause widespread outages in the southern United States, though timing and track remain uncertain.
- National Weather Service meteorologist Bryan Jackson said an arctic air mass from Canada will clash with an atmospheric river of Gulf moisture, while a Hudson Bay vortex intensifies the cold-air feed later this week.
- Highway and air travel could be tangled because southern states have less equipment, major hub airports in Dallas; Atlanta; Memphis; and Charlotte face impacts, and Michigan crash involving more than 100 vehicles shows hazards.
- Temperatures will be slow to warm in many areas, meaning ice on roads and sidewalks might persist and extremely cold post-storm weather could prevent melting for several days, extending hazards for affected communities and road crews.
- Some of the storm’s earliest impacts could be in Texas on Friday with rain moving into much of the state, and metro Atlanta faces lows early Monday of around 22 degrees.
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While many Americans are still recovering from multiple gusts of snow and relentless freezing temperatures in the northern part of the country, a new storm is expected this weekend that could cover roads, trees and electrical cables with devastating ice in a wide area of the south. The storm that will come at the end of this week and over the weekend is emerging as a “potentially catastrophic and widespread event from Texas to the Carolinas,” sa…
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