Author: Nina Clarke

MISSISSIPPI AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA — A dangerous and potentially historic ice storm is increasingly likely across large portions of Mississippi and northeast Louisiana, with updated forecasts continuing to show severe ice accumulations exceeding one inch in several communities. Meteorologists warn that this level of icing could result in catastrophic vegetation damage, widespread power outages lasting…

UNITED STATES — Updated 00z RRFS-A model guidance suggests that the previously anticipated major winter storm expected to impact large portions of the central and eastern United States has significantly weakened, with new data showing that a substantial portion of the system’s ice and snow footprint has been reduced. The latest projections indicate that roughly…

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA — A high-impact winter storm is setting up across central and western North Carolina and parts of northern South Carolina, with widespread freezing rain, heavy sleet, and accumulating snow expected from Saturday night through Sunday night and into early Monday. Updated regional ice and sleet maps show dangerous ice accumulations exceeding one-half…

SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA — A Winter Storm Warning and Winter Storm Watch are in effect across much of northern Louisiana, east Texas, and parts of southern Arkansas as a powerful winter system moves through the region from Friday evening through Sunday noon. Forecast data indicates widespread freezing rain, significant ice accumulations, and snow and sleet totals…

UNITED STATES — A significant winter storm is expected to bring widespread power outages across a broad swath of the United States late this week into the weekend, as crippling ice accumulation and heavy snow impact utilities from the Southern Plains to the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. Forecast confidence is increasing that power disruptions could be…

UNITED STATES — A sprawling and high-impact winter storm is coming together for late January, with snow, sleet, freezing rain, and extreme cold stretching from Texas and Oklahoma through the Mid-South, Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic, and into New England. Based on the latest ensemble guidance, Weather Prediction Center outlooks, and ECMWF temperature data, this system has…

UNITED STATES — A sprawling and complex late-January winter storm is taking shape across a large portion of the country, with impacts expected to stretch from Texas and the southern Plains through the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and into New England. Forecast graphics and model guidance show a dangerous mix of heavy snow, widespread freezing rain, and…

UNITED STATES — A significant January winter storm is taking shape across the eastern United States, with forecast maps showing a wide swath of heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain stretching from the Ohio Valley through the Mid-Atlantic and into New England. According to the latest precipitation outlook, the system is expected to impact the…

UNITED STATES — A high-impact ice storm is increasingly likely to affect Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, with forecast guidance showing a crippling corridor of freezing rain capable of producing more than one inch of ice accretion in some locations. Meteorologists warn that this level of ice accumulation could lead…

UNITED STATES — A geographically massive January winter storm is expected to impact Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, and much of the eastern United States, with snow, ice, and extreme cold affecting areas east of the Rockies beginning Friday and lasting into early next week. Forecast data shows high-end winter impacts across a…