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Major winter storm to bring heavy snow, rain over MLK weekend
A major winter storm system is expected to wallop parts of the U.S. with heavy snow and rain over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, meteorologists have warned.
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A major winter storm system is expected to wallop parts of the U.S. with heavy snow and rain over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, meteorologists have warned.
The Upper and Middle Mississippi Valley could get heavy snow on Friday, with potentially freezing rain set to fall over parts of the Carolinas and Southern Appalachians this weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
“The snow will result in reduced visibility and hazardous driving conditions,” the weather service said.
The system is already producing snowfall in the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest, with heavy snow in parts of Minnesota and Iowa coming down at rates of one to two inches per hour. Fifty-one million people are under winter storm warnings, watches and advisories from the Upper Midwest into the Southeast and the interior Northeast.
In a weekend forecast, NBC’s "TODAY" weather anchor Al Roker said the storm system could bring six to 12 inches of snow stretching from the Dakotas down to Missouri.
Rain is also expected to develop over parts of the Middle Mississippi Valley on Friday night going into Saturday morning, with isolated pockets of freezing rain also possible, according to the weather service.
The weather service said the rain would expand into the Tennessee Valleys on Saturday and change to snow by the evening, with snowfall expected over parts of Arkansas.