A Parade Of Snowy Systems Will Continue To Bring Snow, Wind And Extreme Cold Across The East This Week
More Snow For Great Lakes Through Wednesday
Winter has been on hiatus across large sections of the country, but the Great Lakes would like a refund on its winter. The storm train continues to chug from the Upper Midwest to the interior Northeast, and there’s no slowing it down in the near future.
Not only snow, but Arctic air will surge southward as well, causing temperatures to dive across the eastern half of the country. This, along with strong winds, will create dangerous wind chills for millions.
The first storm that impacted the Northeast over the weekend caused flight delays and even some cancellations across the major metropolitan cities on the Interstate-95 corridor.
Snow reports over an inch have occurred across cities along I-95, including New York’s Central Park, and more snow is on the way.
By early Monday morning, widespread snowfall amounts of 2-6 inches have occurred across the interior Northeast, with isolated totals reaching 8 inches.
Here’s where the rain and snow is falling now:
More Snow Ahead This Week
For those of you in these areas who don’t like snow, I am afraid I have some bad news.
We have yet another storm system that will move through the region, bringing more of the same.
By Tuesday, the new storm will begin to impact the Northern Plains, where snow will begin to fall.
Tuesday night the snow will shift to the Upper Midwest, including Minneapolis, and will also enhance more lake-effect snow for the western Great Lakes.
The entirety of the Great Lakes will see snowfall Wednesday, with snowfall spreading to parts of northern New England by the evening.
Right on its heels, another round of heavy snow will impact the Great Lakes through Thursday, piling up the snow totals for this region.
The areas hit by the strongest bands of lake-effect snow could see an additional 2-4 feet of snowfall.
Polar Plunge Into Upcoming Week
With several rounds of reinforcing cold air this week, temperatures will remain extremely cold. When you factor in the strong winds that are forecast, this will send wind chills to dangerous levels for some locations. We could be talking about wind chills as low as 20-35 degrees below zero for portions of the Northern Plains.
Even places like Pittsburgh and New York will experience wind chills in the single digits and below zero. By the end of the week, wind chills could bottom out at 40 degrees below zero for the Northern Plains.
Jennifer Gray is a weather and climate writer for weather.com. She has been covering some of the world’s biggest weather and climate stories for the last two decades.
