01/12/2024

Heavy Snow Blasts the Midwest

Meanwhile, the South braces for tornadoes

The week's third major storm — and perhaps most powerful — is underway, and will sweep from Arkansas to Michigan over the next 24 hours.

The system is developing explosively, easily qualifying as a bomb cyclone. That rapid intensification means the storm's impacts will be accordingly severe, with the potential to disrupt travel far and wide and cause damage as well.

On the storm's cold side, in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, winter storm and blizzard warnings stretch from eastern Nebraska through Michigan where the National Weather Service is warning of a "life-threatening" combination of heavy snow, strong winds and bitter cold. Forecasters in Iowa described the storm as "rare," writing that one of this magnitude happens only once every five or ten years.

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