US braces for more snow, ice after deadly winter storm

One other winter storm appears poised to pack a punch just like its predecessor that not too long ago swept down from Canada and throughout a big swath of the U.S.

On the heels of a lethal winter storm, the subsequent arctic blasts will carry extra record-setting freezes throughout the nation, in accordance with the Nationwide Climate Service (NWS).

This subsequent spherical of bitter chilly will unfold from the central U.S. into the East, starting Wednesday and into the weekend.

L​ow temperatures will solely attain the 20s, maybe teenagers, alongside the northern Gulf Coast, from japanese Texas to northern Florida Wednesday morning. Lows are anticipated to succeed in the t​eens within the Deep South on Wednesday morning, then once more this weekend.

On Saturday morning, lows within the minus 20s are potential as far south as Iowa and Nebraska, in accordance with the NWS.

Based on AccuWeather, accumulating snow may be anticipated from Chicago, St. Louis and Nashville, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C., New York and Boston previous to the weekend.

The NWS forecasts “Heavy mountain snows for the Northwest and Rockies, together with ice storms for parts of the Pacific Northwest. Bands of heavy lake-effect snow proceed for the Nice Lakes as snow tapers off within the Northeast. A return to extra typical winter temperatures for a lot of on Wednesday after the brutal chilly however one other Arctic blast is anticipated late this week.”

Robust winds may also accompany the arctic air to provide harmful wind chills, particularly throughout the Plains, Midwest and elements of the South. The NWS stated some wind chills within the Northern Plains might drop into the minus 30s, which may shortly result in frostbite on uncovered pores and skin.

Wind chills might drop beneath zero throughout parts of the South, which might lead to hypothermia or frostbite in lower than a half hour.

Newsweek reached out to the NWS through e mail on Tuesday night time for added remark.

A winter storm on Monday night time into Tuesday snapped a two-year snow drought within the Interstate 95 to mid-Atlantic hall.

New York Metropolis skilled its first snowfall of greater than an inch in over 700 days on Monday, whereas Nashville acquired greater than a yr’s price of snow.

“Nashville’s official snowfall accumulation was 7.6″. Of that whole, 6.3″ occurred yesterday, breaking the day by day snowfall report for January 15. Regular annual snowfall is 4.7″, so we acquired greater than a complete winter’s price of snow in only one occasion,” the NWS workplace in Nashville posted on X, previously Twitter, on Tuesday.

Based on the Related Press, current snow and powerful winds have been blamed for not less than seven deaths in Oregon, together with two individuals who died as a consequence of a fallen tree; the opposite 5 had been believed to have died of hypothermia in temperatures that hovered within the teenagers and 20s.

Since Friday, deaths associated to winter storms have additionally been reported in Arkansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, Tennessee and Utah.