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More than 24 cardinal Americans were nether a wintertime upwind advisory Thursday arsenic a snowstorm that hammered Denver with the biggest two-day snowfall successful much than 30 years dilatory pushed eastward.
"Winter tempest continues for the Upper Midwest (and) Great Lakes Thursday with heavy, blowing snowfall starring to unsafe question conditions," the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center said in a statement.
Additional snowfall totals of astir 6-12 inches are forecast for portions of the Upper Great Lakes, with locally higher totals implicit a ft possible, the connection said. Much of the snowfall is expected to hap implicit a play of a fewer hours, with snowfall rates of 1-2" per hr and gusty winds "making question hard to impossible."
Some sleet and a glaze of freezing rainfall whitethorn premix successful for immoderate areas, mostly from cardinal Wisconsin into the bluish Lower Peninsula of Michigan, the upwind work said. The snowfall volition statesman to taper disconnected from westbound to eastbound done aboriginal Friday morning.
Other upwind developments:
►Sections of I-70 successful Colorado remained closed Thursday after a pileup involving 9 semi-trucks and 12 rider vehicles connected Wednesday unopen down a 160-mile agelong of the interstate successful some directions from Aurora to the Kansas authorities line.
►Over 2 cardinal radical were under a tornado ticker successful the South, AccuWeather reported.
►Los Angeles County, which has 88 cities and 10 cardinal people, collected capable h2o from a bid of deadly storms implicit the past 3 weeks to proviso about 800,000 radical for a year, said Mark Pestrella, manager of the Los Angeles County Public Works department.
THURSDAY WINTER WEATHER: Snow forecast for cardinal US increases Thursday; 21-vehicle pileup closes Colorado interstate
What defines a blizzard?: Heavy snowfall and precocious winds expected to expanse crossed country.
Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin brace for wintry weather
Parts of Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin could see 4 to 8 inches of snowfall Thursday. Gusty winds up to 35 mph volition pb to instances of blowing snow, on with "near-whiteout conditions" during the heaviest snow, the upwind work warned.
In Wisconsin, the heaviest snowfall totals are expected to beryllium 5 to 8 inches for cardinal and east-central Wisconsin, arsenic good arsenic 5 to 8 inches successful Green Bay and Fox Cities, the Appleton Post-Crescent, portion of the USA TODAY Network, reports. Northern Door County could spot up to 10 inches of snow.
Tornado confirmed successful Arkansas, much unsafe upwind looms
Dangerous gusty winds volition beryllium imaginable Thursday crossed parts of Arkansas, wherever astatine slightest 1 tornado was confirmed connected Wednesday.
"Unsecured objects volition beryllium blown around, precocious illustration vehicles volition beryllium a situation to drive, and country lakes and rivers could go unsafe to navigate," the upwind work said.
Video: Winter tempest to question from Rockies to Midwest mid-week
New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont could spot snow
Snow and immoderate crystal is expected to grow into the Northeast connected Thursday and into Friday, according to the upwind service.
Snow totals of 4-8 inches were forecast from Upstate New York eastbound done Vermont, New Hampshire, and coastal Maine precocious Thursday and into the time Friday. Locally higher totals implicit a ft are imaginable for higher elevations of the Green and White Mountains.
Some accumulating freezing rainfall is besides possible, particularly for the Catskills, Poconos, and Berkshires.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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