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Winter Storm Blasts Southwest, Heads For Nation's Midsection
February 18, 2019
UPDATED By WeatherBug Meteorologist, Anthony Sagliani
A powerful winter storm will deliver large amounts of snow to many spots across the Southwest and Midwest over the next couple of days.
A major storm will spread snow into the Great Basin and Rockies today and Tuesday before moving into the Plains and Midwest by midweek. More than a foot of snow could pile up across the higher peaks of the southern Great Basin and southern Rockies.
Winter Storm Warnings and Winter Weather Advisories are scattered across the higher elevations of the Southwest and southern Rockies. This includes Flagstaff, Grand Canyon and Prescott, Ariz., Albuquerque and Santa Fe, N.M., and Colorado Springs, Colo. An additional 2 to 6 inches will coat Arizona’s Mogollon Rim today, with 4 to 7 inches expected in northern and central New Mexico, with the highest elevations of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains seeing up to 2 feet.
Additional Winter Weather Advisories and Winter Storm Watches have already been issued across the central Plains and Middle Mississippi Valley, including Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Okla., Topeka and Wichita, Kan., Omaha, Neb., St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo., and Des Moines, Iowa. A stripe of 3 to 6 inches will be common from Kansas into the western Great lakes, with a few spots seeing up to 10 inches of snow late Tuesday into Wednesday.
If you need to do any traveling through mountain passes today through Tuesday, be sure to pack a winter survival kit in your vehicle containing food, drinks, blankets, flashlights, and warm clothing. Understand that chains may be required to travel through certain passes.
A blast of cold air in the wake of the storm will threaten weather-sensitive crops. Freeze and Hard Freeze Watches are in effect for desert locations such as Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz. Temperatures on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning could drop as low as 30 degrees for several hours before daybreak.
The same system will then move into the East by the middle of the week, bringing flooding rain to the South and a wintry mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain to the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.