Frigid air to send temperatures plummeting

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Arctic air will expand across much of the United States into the weekend, resulting in some of the coldest conditions since last winter with AccuWeather RealFeel Temperatures well below zero.

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00:00 Well, right on the heels of this

00:02 winter storm that we're tracking

00:03 at this very moment we have

00:05 another one here on the way and

00:07 this is going to start to pull

00:09 into the region at Thursday night

00:11 all the way through Saturday.

00:13 And we are talking about a lot of

00:15 real estate here covered in the blue.

00:17 That means there is going to be that

00:19 snow here pushing through a parts of

00:21 the central plains up through the

00:23 Midwest with the heaviest snow being

00:24 right around the Great Lakes and

00:26 that includes Chicago.

00:27 So heads up we are talking about

00:29 a lot of real snow.

00:30 Meanwhile we have a area of snow,

00:32 rain and ice.

00:33 So yes,

00:34 it's just going to be a yucky mess

00:36 out there across Southern Missouri

00:37 up through the Ohio Valley into

00:39 the interior Northeast snow covered

00:41 roads, travel delays,

00:42 and of course you can expect some

00:44 possible power outages and also

00:45 the blizzard potential as well.

00:47 Let's kind of time this out.

00:49 See when the snow arrives now

00:51 between early Thursday into or

00:52 late Thursday into early Friday.

00:54 That snow is going to continue to

00:56 spread here mainly across the

00:58 eastern Nebraska up through Iowa.

00:59 Also going to be moving into the

01:02 Chicago area too as we head into

01:04 early Friday Southern Wisconsin.

01:05 And then between early Friday and late Friday,

01:08 that's when that snow is going to

01:10 continue to advance further east.

01:12 Moving in the areas like Detroit and

01:14 then of course northern Indiana.

01:16 Where we expecting the heaviest snow?

01:18 Well, hey,

01:19 that's set up right around the Great Lakes.

01:21 We're talking northern Illinois,

01:23 Chicago included up through

01:24 most of the Mitten 6 to 10.

01:26 Most of the Mitten 6 to 12 inches with

01:29 your accurate local storm X as high as 24.

01:32 Inches so hey,

01:33 this is going to be very impactful.

01:35 Snow rough travel.

01:36 Hey heads up and maybe if you

01:38 can work from home,

01:39 especially heading into Friday,

01:41 that's probably going to be your best bet.

01:43 We could even still see 3 to 6 inches

01:45 a little bit further West down

01:47 through Iowa and then into Nebraska

01:49 and Kansas too as well.

01:50 So overall we are talking about

01:52 some big snow here and it is going

01:54 to be kind of a triple extreme

01:56 situation here Friday into Friday

01:58 night because with this storm is

02:00 coming passing through,

02:00 we're going to see our first really

02:02 big blast of Arctic air really

02:04 shift in across a lot of the North.

02:06 We are tracking that threat for severe

02:08 weather here across the South as well.

02:10 And well, hey,

02:11 we're going to have that renewed

02:12 flooding risk as we head into the

02:14 Northeast, but like I said, hey,

02:16 that shot of cold air is coming and well,

02:18 hey,

02:18 it's going to be some of the coldest

02:20 air of the season for a few.

02:22 That cold air is going to start

02:24 coming across the northern Plains

02:25 as we head into the beginning of the

02:27 weekend it's going to expand into the

02:28 Midwest and then as we head into the

02:30 end of the weekend will hey you're

02:32 catching up to that big cold air.

02:34 Into the Northeast as well.

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