Winter is coming.
Since fall officially started, Chicago has experienced roughly a quarter of the snowfall it typically gets to date but things look like they’re about change. According to AccuWeather meteorologists are predicting a strong late-week snowstorm that will unleash wintry precipitation across the United States, and Chicago lies directly in its path.
The snowstorm will reportedly blow across a 2,000-mile-long corridor from the southern Rockies in the United States to southern Canada. Although it won’t wreak as much havoc as first anticipated, the storm will be of intermediate strength and last for several days.
A storm may set its sights on one Midwestern city that has already picked up above-normal snowfall — and people in Chicago and Detroit will need to keep a close watch on the forecast: https://t.co/7xU464s1Qy
— AccuWeather (@accuweather) December 7, 2020
AccuWeather meteorologists have been tracking the storm and predict it will span a large portion of the U.S. especially impacting Chicago and Milwaukee metro areas. On Friday the first signs of snow are expected to hit New Mexico and Colorado and will continue to blanket much of the US and Canada through Sunday when the snowstorm is expected to reach southern Ontario and western Quebec.
We are in for unseasonably warm air as the storm manifests but as it moves through the United States cold air and wintry precipitation will breeze through the 2,000-mile-long corridor bringing both rain and snow to various areas. Many major travel hubs are likely to be severely impacted as snow changes to rain and sweeps through the east and northeast over northern Kansas, southern Nebraska, northern Missouri, and southern Iowa.
AccuWeather meteorologists are growing more confident of the exact track and strength of a storm expected to unleash wintry precipitation across several U.S. states. https://t.co/mZ1YXR4C14
— AccuWeather (@accuweather) December 8, 2020
“As the temperature drops, snow will then spread to intermediate and lower elevations in eastern Colorado and northern New Mexico, including the cities of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Denver and Colorado Springs, Colorado, where up to a few inches may fall. The transition to snow will continue to advance on Saturday in northern Illinois, southeastern Wisconsin and the central and northern parts of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.” said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson.