winter storm with heavy snow and disruptive ice will impact more than 100 million people across a nearly 3,000-mile swath stretching from Texas and the Plains to the Midwest and Northeast through Friday.Frigid arctic air has moved into the nation's heartland on Groundhog Day behind a cold front sweeping down across the Plains.
Moisture from the Gulf of Mexico has surged northward ahead of the front.That moisture is overlapping with the fresh supply of cold air, setting the stage for an expansive area of snow and ice impacting millions of Americans from the nation's southern border to its northern border.As of Wednesday morning, the winter storm was producing snow and a narrow band of sleet and freezing rain over a large area from Colorado, New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle to parts of Illinois, Indiana and Michigan.
This slug of wintry precipitation will only turn more widespread as colder air continues to filter in, causing rain to change over to snow and ice farther south along the storm's path.WHAT MAKES THIS WEEK'S WINTER STORM DIFFERENT FROM LAST WEEKEND'S NOR'EASTER?(FOX Weather) The National Weather Service has issued Winter Storm Warnings, Ice Storm Warnings, Winter Storm Watches and Winter Weather Advisories from parts of New Mexico and Texas northeastward to upstate New York and a large portion of New England.Cities under Winter Storm Warnings include Dallas/Fort Worth and Austin in Texas, Oklahoma City and Tulsa in Oklahoma, St.
Louis and Kansas City in Missouri, Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo and Syracuse in New York and Burlington in Vermont.The Ice Storm Warnings include Memphis in Tennessee, Louisville and Lexington in Kentucky and Evansville in Indiana.Pittsburgh, Boston and Portland,.