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New Winter Storm Takes Stage on the Plains

January 23, 2019
UPDATED By WeatherBug Meteorologists, Rebecca Huff & Anthony Sagliani
Just as one exits another weather system forms. A brand new winter storm is set to bring another wintry mess to the northern Plains and Midwest tonight into Wednesday.

The culprit, low pressure ejecting from the central Rockies into Kansas, will spread a swath of snow from the Colorado Front Range eastward to the Great Lakes over the next 48 hours.

Snow will fall across southeastern Colorado, Kansas, southeastern Nebraska and northeastern Oklahoma, reaching Iowa, Wisconsin, northern Illinois and Michigan by this evening. Here, Winter Storm Warnings and Advisories are in effect into tonight and Wednesday for as much as 6 to 9 inches of snow. 

Across the southern Plains into the lower Mississippi Valley, this system will produce a cold rain today. On Wednesday, this same system will move across the Great Lakes, sweeping a cold front across the eastern Plains, lower Mississippi Valley into the South and Gulf Coast. Although this front will produce heavy rain and maybe a rumble of thunder, colder air behind the front will bring some wet snow as far south as northern Texas.

The storm will move across the East on Thursday, bringing rain to the I-95 corridor, a burst of fresh snow to the Appalachians and the interior Northeast and thunderstorms across Florida and the Southeast. Another blast of Arctic air will follow the system, with many parts of the Upper Midwest, northern Plains and western and central Great Lakes having sub-zero temperatures Friday and Saturday.