The strongest of a series of winter storms that hit the eastern United States with snow and rain from Texas to the northeast.

It’s one, two, three times in some parts of the country after a long hiatus in winter weather that caused many cities to report snow shortages, to the delight of many.

After the weekend, when the northern tier saw mostly light to occasionally moderate accumulations, the FOX Forecast Center monitors the likelihood of a major storm system driving snow from Texas through Maine, and the southern end of the system the likelihood of heavy rainfall and severe weather. conditions. Weather.

Forecast models show that moisture will begin to collect over the Rocky Mountains and southern plains on Monday, but for many Texas and OklahomaTuesday seems to be the day when the impacts will be felt most widely.

“Significant drop in jet stream allows this cold Canadian air to plummet and push areas of New Mexico, Texas. The reason this is important is that instead of having a coastal low, it will be an inland low that continues. to be really improved. And so it will bring abundant snow,” – FOX Weather meteorologist. Steve Bender said.

Depending on where the frost line is, some places can experience heavy snowfall where temperatures are quite low.

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Amarillo, Texas and Oklahoma City are two communities where models are predicting enough cold air for frozen precipitation and snow accumulation.

As the storm system moves northeast, snow will dominate parts of the middle Mississippi and upper Ohio valleys by Wednesday.

Most congestion is expected to remain light, but the FOX Prediction Center warns there will be an area that could extend from Missouri through Illinois to Indiana and Michigan, where snow can be quite modest and potentially affect travel.

Due to the trajectory of the system, large parts southeastThe Tennessee Valley and the I-95 corridor will remain free of snow, but liquid precipitation will occur due to abundant moisture.

By the end of Wednesday and Thursday, the center of the system is expected to be over the northeast, where inland regions could again see a few inches of snow, with major cities mostly raining as temperatures remain too high for snowfall to accumulate.

Due to the timing of the event, the exact amount of snowfall has yet to be clarified, but places from the Catskills to the White Mountains in New England appear to have the heaviest snow expected, which will likely have to be measured in feet rather than inches.

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The clash of air masses with cold penetrating further south than in previous weeks will help set the stage for what the FOX Prediction Center believes could be an outbreak of severe weather centered along the Interstate 10 corridor.

Forecast models indicate that the first chance of severe weather will be on Tuesday, with hail, damaging winds and tornado possible.

The potential threat zone extends from Louisiana to southern Georgia and Florida.

Due to the active pattern, some of these communities are already facing the threat of major storms despite only having three weeks a year.

“This severe weather persists. And again next week, we are monitoring similar conditions not only in severe weather, which poses a threat to recovery and cleanup, but also in rain, ”he said. Fox Weather Meteorologist Bridget Mahoney.

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Any additional tornadoes that form throughout January will exacerbate a streak of congestion already on track to break records this month.

The Storm Prediction Center said it received 138 initial tornado reports in the first 20 days of 2023.

An additional wave of moisture could see the storm develop further on Wednesday in areas farther east than Tuesday’s threat zone and could include the Carolinas, Georgia, and Peninsula Florida.

In the coming days, FOX Prediction Center will narrow the potential impacts on the east coast and be better suited to provide detailed snow and severe weather forecasts.

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