A massive coast-to-coast winter storm is trucking across the nation, bringing exceptionally heavy snow, blizzard conditions, freezing rain and strong winds. Fifty million Americans are under winter storm watches, warnings or winter weather advisories.
Weather alerts span across virtually the entire Lower 48 from California to Maine, where the system will perform its final act late Thursday. Until then, a widespread 1 to 2 feet of snow is expected to fall across a more than 2,000-mile patch of the country, with the bull’s eye near Minneapolis. There, the local National Weather Service office is warning that this system is “expected to reach the top 5 heaviest snow storms.
Those high-altitude systems will support the development of dual surface lows — a weaker one over Kansas, and a stronger one in Utah. Both will progress east with time, their counterclockwise circulations swirling moisture north and helping generate wintry precipitation as cold air crashes south in their wake.The duo will slip east with time, though the second will be more potent. They’ll ride along a stalled warm front, which will stretch from the north central Plains to near New York City.
Before then, strong winds will overspread most of the Desert Southwest and California, where a litany of wind alerts are in effect. Gusts of 40 to 60 mph are likely .Intermountain West
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