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A large snowstorm whitethorn beryllium brewing implicit the cardinal and eastbound U.S. successful the days before Christmas with the imaginable to complicate vacation travel.
The likelihood of a "potential blockbuster system" hitting earlier Christmas is increasing, AccuWeather forecasters said, though high-confidence forecasts for Christmas Day are inactive respective days away.
The tempest is besides expected to coincide with an outbreak of Arctic aerial forecast to driblet temperatures to "bone-chilling levels," according to AccuWeather. The National Weather Service forecast below-average temperatures successful the days earlier Christmas passim astir of the country, including the East Coast, South and Midwest, arsenic the Arctic airmass heads toward the Midwest and Ohio.
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Snow forecast for days earlier Christmas
From Dec. 22 to 24, snowfall whitethorn widen from the confederate Plains to the Midwest, Northeast, and perchance interior Southeast states, according to AccuWeather. Snow, falling temperatures and beardown winds whitethorn pb to slippery question conditions from parts of the little Mississippi Valley to the Midwest and Northeast states.
"This tempest volition apt go intense, feeding connected the highly crisp saltation betwixt the surging arctic aerial arriving from the Central states and comparatively lukewarm aerial crossed the Southeastern U.S.," AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jon Porter said.
Forecasters volition person a clearer representation of the storm's way and wherever whitethorn person the heaviest snowfall arsenic Christmas approaches.
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Nor'easter to dump dense snowfall connected Maine
Meanwhile, a nor'easter may dump up to 2 feet of snowfall connected parts of Maine connected Saturday.
Winter weather warnings are successful effect done Saturday successful parts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York, which may see unsafe question conditions and scattered powerfulness outages, according to the National Weather Service.
The wintertime upwind is portion of a almighty tempest strategy that has spanned a week. Friday, implicit 5 million radical successful the Northeast United States faced winter tempest warnings while blizzard conditions slammed the precocious Midwest.
Contact News Now Reporter Christine Fernando astatine cfernando@usatoday.com oregon travel her connected Twitter astatine @christinetfern.
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