DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NWS</span></a>: Short Range Forecast Discussion</p><p>300 PM EST Sun Jan 05 2025</p><p>Valid 00Z Mon Jan 06 2025 - 00Z Wed Jan 08 2025</p><p>...Large winter storm to track east from the Central Plains/Midwest to the<br>East Coast through Monday with heavy snow, gusty winds and damaging ice<br>accumulations...</p><p>...Severe thunderstorms will continue to affect the Lower Mississippi<br>Valley through late this evening but the threat is expected to lower and<br>shift east for Monday...</p><p>...A mix of rain and higher elevation snow will impact parts of the<br>western U.S. over the next 48 hours with temperatures trending colder on<br>Tuesday...</p><p>"A major winter storm will move eastward from the Central Plains into the<br>Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic region tonight, bringing areas of snow,<br>sleet, freezing rain and gusty winds along its path. Gusty winds, locally<br>exceeding 40 mph, will create blizzard conditions from Kansas into<br>northwestern Missouri through this evening, with conditions improving from<br>west to east overnight tonight. Areas of heavy snow will spread eastward<br>through the Ohio Valley and central Appalachians tonight, reaching the<br>northern Mid-Atlantic by Monday morning. While winds will be weaker across the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic region, occasional gusts up to 20-25 mph will still be possible which will result in reduced visibilities from<br>snowfall or snow on the ground. Total snowfall accumulations of 6 to 12<br>inches are expected from southern Ohio to the D.C. metropolitan area.</p><p>"South of the snow will be a mixture of sleet and freezing rain with<br>damaging ice accumulations which are expected to exceed 0.25 inches for<br>northern Kentucky and portions of southern West Virginia. Lighter, but<br>still hazardous ice accumulations generally between 0.10 and 0.25 inches<br>are expected along and east of the Blue Ridge Mountains into western North<br>Carolina and central/southern Virginia.</p><p>"On the warm side of the storm system, severe thunderstorms capable of<br>producing tornadoes and damaging straight line winds will move east from<br>Arkansas and Louisiana into Mississippi and Alabama this evening. The<br>threat for severe thunderstorms is expected to wane overnight but increase<br>again for portions of southern Georgia and northern Florida on Monday,<br>though the threat is expected to be reduced compared to the Lower<br>Mississippi Valley.</p><p>"The eastern storm system will exit quickly into the western Atlantic<br>Monday night with lingering snow showers downwind of the Great Lakes and into the favored upslope regions of the central/northern Appalachians.<br>Much colder air will filter into the central and eastern U.S. in the wake<br>of the eastern storm system resulting in high temperature departures of<br>roughly 10 to 20 degrees below average for large portions of the Great<br>Plains to the East Coast on Monday and Tuesday.</p><p>"Across the western U.S., a pair of relatively weak disturbances aloft will<br>bring a mixture of lower elevation rain and mountain snow from the Pacific<br>Northwest to the northern and central Rockies. Rain/snow totals are<br>expected to remain fairly light for the West and temperatures will be 5 to<br>15 degrees above average west of the Continental Divide on Monday. Colder<br>air filtering in from the north will cool temperatures closer to average<br>on Tuesday for much of the western third of the nation."</p><p><a href="http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdspd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/</span><span class="invisible">hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdspd</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WinterWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WinterWeather</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WinterWeatherAdvisory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WinterWeatherAdvisory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USWx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USWx</span></a></p>