Midwest weather: Hazardous outlook for this week - Chicago Tribune

National Weather Service officials posted a Hazardous Weather Outlook early Tuesday greeting for portions of northbound cardinal and northeast Illinois, and northwest Indiana, arsenic a deepening debased unit strategy approaches, and a polar vortex was expected to travel mid-next week, officials said.

Much of the cardinal United States, from the Rocky Mountains to the Midwest, was braced Tuesday for blizzard-like conditions, portion states farther southbound saw tornado warnings from a monolithic tempest blowing crossed the country. An country stretching from Montana into occidental Nebraska and Colorado was nether blizzard warnings, and the National Weather Service said that arsenic overmuch arsenic 2 feet of snowfall was imaginable successful immoderate areas of occidental South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska.

A pickup motortruck drives done a heavy puddle aft rain, snow, and temperatures connected the cusp of freezing make precarious roadworthy conditions connected Dec.13, 2022, successful Sioux Falls, SD. (Erin Woodiel/The Argus Leader)

Meanwhile, crystal and sleet were expected successful the eastbound Great Plains. The National Weather Service warned that up to fractional an inch of crystal could signifier and winds could gust up to 45 mph successful parts of Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota.

A important Arctic blast was expected to determination into the Plains and Midwest adjacent week.

The past polar vortex successful the country happened January 2019. In Chicago, the polar vortex produced the coldest-ever temperatures for Jan. 30 and Jan. 31, but it did not interruption the area’s all-time coldest somesthesia — minus 27 — acceptable successful 1985.

Winds volition gust to 40 mph done Wednesday morning. Another circular of wide rainfall volition make Wednesday evening. Some of this rainfall volition beryllium locally heavy, which whitethorn effect successful a fewer instances of flooding of low-lying areas and stream rises into the extremity of the week, upwind officials said.

Current temperatures astatine Midway Airport registered astatine 36 degrees.

The forecast was mostly cloudy, with a precocious adjacent 42.

The Associated Press contributed