A Major Winter Storm Is About to Make Life Messy for Half the U.S.

( Updated Feb. 1 , 2022 at 11:00 AM ET with new details on the storm )

A major wintertime violent storm could soon spread dangerous weather across the U.S. , ditch snow , sleet , freeze rainfall , and ice rink across a huge strip of the state from Tuesday afternoon through Friday .

Winter Storm Landonis the resultant role of a cold front that is moving into the Midwest and central U.S , backed by freezing Arctic air . When it meets the jet flow travel to the south , that will pass around wet through the cold air travel , creating idealistic precondition for serious weather .

A model simulation of the cold air that’s slated to move into the U.S. this week, ranging from Tuesday afternoon to Friday morning.

A model simulation of the cold air that’s slated to move into the U.S. this week, ranging from Tuesday afternoon to Friday morning.Gif: Earth Wind Map

Storm watch warnings are currently in effect covering about 1,000 miles of the U.S.,extending diagonally northeastfrom Colorado Springs , Colorado , and parts of northern Texas to Chicago and Detroit . Over the course of the week , Landon could impact resident from Texas to Maine .

The tempest is still form , so predicting what ’s go to happen still involves a lot of guesswork — conditions could change importantly in the next 48 60 minutes . But preliminary forecasts show a reasonably consummate set of conditions in several different states beginning Tuesday Nox , when nose candy and rainwater — a wintry mix — is expected to begin in an area cross from the Rocky Mountains to parts of the Great Lakes . This weather condition is expect to last through Wednesday , which is Groundhog Day , into Thursday . part of Colorado could see up to a human foot of snow , while snow is even possible in part of northern Texas .

The National Weather Service shows portions of 15 body politic from New Mexico to New Hampshire are under a winter storm determine — not asserious as an advisory or a word of advice , defined as conditions that are “ favorable ” for a storm event to develop . A lump of the midriff of the country — stretching from part of New Mexico and Colorado , through Kansas , Missouri , and Illinois , over to part of Indiana , Michigan and Ohio — are as of Wednesday under a winter storm warning , the most serious classification , which image lowering snow and ice and possible rash conditions . Parts of Illinois and Missouri , which are almost alone under winter storm warnings , could see a foot of snow or more .

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What ’s in store for spot far east depends on how the tempest develops , but prognosticator sayheavy snow is potential in New York Thursday , while “ pelting , snow , immobilise pelting , sleet are all on the table ” for parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania , according to theNational Weather Service in Pittsburgh . Portions of the Northeast could see some of this icy , snowy atmospheric condition at the tail ending of this week , but warmer nothingness willprobably change a lot of the snow to rainby the clock time the violent storm hits the mid - Atlantic and New England .

forecaster say travelling will in all probability be difficult to impossible in some places . The Federal Aviation Administration , which does not cancel single flight , advised travelersin a tweet Mondayto keep an eye on their flight and hear for proclamation from airline about their specific flight of stairs .

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