Weather
Cold, active pattern continues for the Heartland
During the next several days, multiple storm systems will travel along a west-to-east path near the boundary between warm air across the Deep South and frigid conditions farther north.
Where storm-related moisture overruns cold air, there will be a significant threat of wintry weather (e.g. snow, sleet, and freezing rain), leading to potential travel disruptions and power outages.
From the remainder of Thursday into Friday, widespread snow and ice accumulations should occur as two fast-moving disturbances race from the mid-South to the mid-Atlantic. Meanwhile, a stronger storm will produce widespread precipitation across the West before blanketing the central and southern Plains with late-week snow.
Early in the weekend, that storm should result in additional wintry precipitation in parts of the East and lower Midwest. Finally, late in the weekend, another winter storm will traverse the West and the central and southern Plains.
Each passing storm system should draw cold air a little farther southward, leading to sub-zero weekend temperatures reaching as far south as northern Texas.
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of colder-than-normal conditions nationwide, except for near-normal temperatures in central and southern California and above-normal temperatures across Florida’s peninsula.
Meanwhile, near- or above-normal precipitation will occur in most areas of country, with drier-than-normal weather limited to southern California, the Desert Southwest, portions of western and southern Texas, and a small section of the north-central U.S.
