Exceptionally powerful winter storm set to unleash dangerous weather
In Canada’s Northwest Terrorities, where the cold air is coming from, the air temperature fell as low as minus-63 degrees —Along the Arctic cold front, an upper-air disturbance will dive south out of British Columbia and Alberta into the central Plains by Thursday. It will explosively strengthen a surface low pressure zone pushing across the Plains, transforming it into a powerhouse storm system that will sweep up the Ohio Valley.
Farther west, however, the Plains, Upper Midwest and even parts of the Mid-South, perhaps as far south as Nashville, will see snow — and for some, a lot of it. The jackpot, which could feature a foot or more, looks to fall in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, with a secondary maximum downwind of Lakes Erie and Ontario.
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